By Jeffrey Walton Juicy Ecumenism A once-leading conservative Episcopal parish has called a man in a same-sex marriage as its new rector. The Falls Church Episcopal in Falls Church, Virginia, outside of Washington, DC, announced May 11 that the historic parish will welcome Fr. Walter Burley Stattmann “Burl” Salmon as its new rector in July. […]
Archives for May 13, 2021
Interfaith Relationship Flourishes for Four Decades
Communion Across Difference By Neva Rae Fox Correspondent The 2014 merger of a Black and an Anglo church, both founded in the decades after the Civil War, united their history, their ministries, and their gifts. This union also incorporated a long-term partnership with Mountain Synagogue. The Rev. John Archibald Deal, the first Episcopal priest in […]
You’re My Witnesses
By Christin Ditchfield Lazo Feast of the Ascension A Reading from the Gospel of Matthew 28:16-20 16 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them. 17 When they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted. 18 And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in […]