Wednesday, June 27, 2018 | General Convention
[Episcopal News Service] Although capacious churches, glorious choirs, multiple clergy and the smells and bells of Holy Day services may capture the imagination of Episcopalians, the reality is that the majority of congregations in the Episcopal Church tend toward the...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018 | General Convention
The Association of Christian Schools in Japan has elected an Anglican priest, the Rev. Renta Nishihara, as its new chairman. Nishihara is the first Anglican elected to lead the 108-year-old organization in 63 years. He is pastor of St. Barnabas Church in Okaya and an...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018 | General Convention
Forward Movement has acquired the online learning company ChurchNext. Based in suburban Detroit, ChurchNext launched in August 2013 with 28 online classes. Since then, more than 25,000 people have taken one of ChurchNext’s hundreds of courses. “We know that Christian...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018 | General Convention
Twenty Minutes with Mary Kate Wold Mary Kate Wold is the CEO and president of the Church Pension Group, a financial services organization that serves the Episcopal Church. A former finance and corporate executive and law-firm partner, she now draws on her fiduciary,...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018 | General Convention
[Episcopal News Service] When the 79th General Convention considers the resolutions proposed by the House of Deputies Committee on the State of the Church, it will confront “tough questions” facing the Episcopal Church in the current social environment. House of...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018 | General Convention
By Kirk Petersen Episcopalians take their governance seriously, and the primary governing body meets only once every three years. General Convention can be a cauldron of pent-up passion. What will be the hottest issues at the 79th General Convention, July 5-13, in...
Monday, June 25, 2018 | General Convention
The Church Pension Group (CPG), a financial services organization that serves the Episcopal Church, released a Report to General Convention to answer questions it has received in recent months and to share its final Report on the Costs of Pension Benefits in Foreign...
Monday, June 25, 2018 | General Convention
The Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe has announced four nominees in its search for the next bishop in charge: The Rev. Canon Paul-Gordon Chandler, president and CEO of CARAVAN, an international ministry of building peace through the arts, based in...
Monday, June 25, 2018 | General Convention
6 Pentecost, July 1 2 Sam. 1:1, 17-27 or Wis. 1; 13-15, 2:23-24 Ps. 130 or Lam. 3:21-33 or Ps. 30 2 Cor. 8:7-15 • Mark 5:21-43 A competent preacher who has won the trust and affection of a parish community through an ever-changing variety of pastoral contacts and...
Friday, June 22, 2018 | General Convention
The Most. Rev. Foley Beach, archbishop of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), has been named chairman of the GAFCON Primates’ Council, according to the organization’s Twitter feed. Beach was elected archbishop of the ACNA in 2014. In 2010 he was consecrated...
Friday, June 22, 2018 | General Convention
This year’s Global Anglican Future Conference has issued a communiqué under the title “Letter to the Churches.” The document, approved during a plenary session by the nearly 2,000 delegates to the gathering says in part: The uniqueness of Jesus Christ lies at the...
Friday, June 22, 2018 | General Convention
Eventmobi’s app for General Convention (event code 79gc) is available for Android and iOS devices. The guide may also be opened as a website. The event app is compatible with cell phones, tablets, and other devices. It offers: Doing Austin Right visitor guide Maps...
Thursday, June 21, 2018 | General Convention
[House of Deputies] Responding to calls from Episcopalians across the church to act on behalf of families seeking asylum at the southern U. S. border, a team of concerned leaders heading to General Convention has planned a prayer service outside the T. Don Hutto...
Thursday, June 21, 2018 | General Convention
Adapted from the House of Deputies’ website General Convention deputies and bishops have planned a prayer service outside the T. Don Hutto Residential Detention Center in Taylor, Texas, at about noon on July 8. The planning team, led by the Rev. Megan Castellan, an...
Thursday, June 21, 2018 | General Convention
Today, the Episcopal Church’s Office of the General Convention announced the release of a mobile event app for the upcoming 79th General Convention in Austin, Texas, July 5 – July 13, 2018. The event app, powered by Eventmobi, is compatible with cell phones,...
