Wednesday, March 7, 2018 | General Convention
[Service Episcopal News] La Chambre des évêques de l’Eglise épiscopale a déclaré le 7 mars que ses membres soutiendront deux grands mouvements sociaux, pour mettre fin, l’un à la violence par armes à feu et l’autre au harcèlement sexuel, à la violence...
Wednesday, March 7, 2018 | General Convention
[Episcopal News Service] La Cámara de Obispos de la Iglesia Episcopal dijo el 7 de marzo que sus miembros apoyarán dos importantes movimientos sociales, uno para ponerle fin a la violencia armada y el otro para terminar con el acoso y la violencia sexuales y la...
Monday, March 5, 2018 | General Convention
The Standing Committee on Liturgy and Music has spent the 206-2018 triennium attempting to bring order to the Episcopal Church’s calendar of commemorations. Photo: Church Publishing Inc. [Episcopal News Service] The church’s calendar of saints has been in a state of...
Monday, March 5, 2018 | General Convention
The Standing Committee on Liturgy and Music is recommending to the General Convention that it not authorize a revision of The Hymnal 1982. The committee did propose a revised and expanded collection of rites for the pastoral and liturgical needs of congregations....
Thursday, March 1, 2018 | General Convention
House of Deputies President Gay Clark Jennings has appointed a House of Deputies special committee to draft legislation on sexual harassment and exploitation for this summer’s General Convention. “In January, Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and I called the church to...
Thursday, February 15, 2018 | General Convention
Registration is now open for the Episcopal Church Young Adult Festival, scheduled to run concurrently with the 79th General Convention of the Episcopal Church. The Young Adult Festival is designed for young adults 18-30 years old to meet peers from across the globe,...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 | General Convention
[Episcopal News Service] Sexual harassment and exploitation in the church are being highlighted in a series of reflections, essays and meditations, some of them explicit in their descriptions, that began Ash Wednesday on the House of Deputies website. “The examples...
Tuesday, February 13, 2018 | General Convention
This summer’s meeting of General Convention is being invited to consider how it orders its common prayer and why. [Episcopal News Service] The prospect of revising the current Book of Common Prayer is filled with risk, complexity and “potentially great promise.” That...
Thursday, February 8, 2018 | General Convention
The Episcopal Church Joint Standing Committee on Program, Budget and Finance (known as PB&F) invites comments on the draft budget for the 2019-2021 triennium. PB&F met February 5-7 in Linthicum Heights, MD to extensively review the draft budget for the...
Friday, February 2, 2018 | General Convention
The draft budget for the Episcopal Church in the 2019-2021 triennium is available for viewing here. The draft budget was approved by the Episcopal Church Executive Council at its January meeting. The draft budget is now submitted to the General Convention through the...
Friday, January 26, 2018 | General Convention
La Rda Mally Lloyd, a la derecha, miembro del comité que conduce la labor presupuestaria del Comité Permanente Conjunto de Finanzas para la Misión del Consejo Ejecutivo, presenta ante el Consejo el anteproyecto del presupuesto 2019-2021, junto con Tess Judge,...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 | General Convention
The Rev. Mally Lloyd, right, the committee member who lead Executive Council’s Joint Standing Committee on Finances for Mission budget work, presents the 2019-2021 draft budget to council with Tess Judge, FFM chair. Photo: Shannon Ferguson Kelly [Episcopal News...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 | General Convention
The six-member planning team for the General Convention Young Adult Festival at the Episcopal Church 79th General Convention has been announced. Named to the Young Adult Festival Planning team are: Christina Donovan: Diocese of Long Island Nic Mather: Diocese of...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018 | General Convention
Se ha anunciado el equipo de planificación de seis miembros para el Festival de Jóvenes Adultos de la Convención General en la 79ª Convención General de la Iglesia Episcopal. Los nombrados para el Equipo de Planificación del Festival de Jóvenes Adultos son: •...
Monday, January 22, 2018 | General Convention
[Episcopal News Service] Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, president of the House of Deputies, issued a call Jan. 22 for the Episcopal Church to spend Lent and beyond examining its history and how it has handled or mishandled cases of...
