The Rt. Rev. Paul Lambert has joined the Diocese of Springfield as assisting bishop, and will serve during the search and transition for the XII Bishop of Springfield. Lambert served as suffragan bishop of the Diocese of Dallas from 2008 to 2016, when he retired. Prior to his election he served congregations in California, Kansas, and Texas, and was canon to the ordinary in … [Read more...] about Bishop Roundup: Springfield, Pittsburgh
Archives for August 2021
More Than Both/And
By David Baumann A Reading from James 2:14-26 14 What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if you say you have faith but do not have works? Can faith save you? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? 17 So faith … [Read more...] about More Than Both/And
TEC Pays $4.5 Million to ACNA’s Fort Worth Diocese
By Kirk Petersen The Episcopal Church (TEC) has paid $4.5 million in legal fees and expenses to the Fort Worth diocese of the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA), in a mediated settlement after more than a decade of litigation involving an estimated $100 million in church properties. After 12 years of wins and losses along the way, TEC lost its final appeal when the … [Read more...] about TEC Pays $4.5 Million to ACNA’s Fort Worth Diocese
Churches Assessing Damage from Hurricane Ida
By Neva Rae Fox Correspondent On the 16th anniversary of the devastating Hurricane Katrina, the same Gulf Coast region was hit with Hurricane Ida, a Category 4 storm at the time it made landfall. CNN reported on Monday, August 30, Ida weakened to a tropical storm, but life-threatening flash flooding is feared. “At least one person is dead and nearly half the state of … [Read more...] about Churches Assessing Damage from Hurricane Ida
15 Pentecost, Year B: No Distinction Between Them and Us
SUNDAY’S READINGS | September 5, 2021 Prov. 22:1-2, 8-9, 22-23 or Isa. 35:4-7a Ps. 125 or Ps. 146 James 2:1-10, [11-13], 14-17 Mark 7:24-37 Jesus sets off into Gentile territory, first to the region of Tyre, northwest of Galilee, and then further north to Sidon. In both places, he performs miraculous healings, demonstrating that his mission extends to a universal church, to … [Read more...] about 15 Pentecost, Year B: No Distinction Between Them and Us
Not Always Obvious
By David Baumann A Reading from James 2:1-13 1 My brothers and sisters, do you with your acts of favoritism really believe in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ? 2 For if a person with gold rings and in fine clothes comes into your assembly, and if a poor person in dirty clothes also comes in, 3 and if you take notice of the one wearing the fine clothes and say, “Have a seat … [Read more...] about Not Always Obvious
Train Yourself
By David Baumann A Reading from 1 Timothy 4:7b-16 7b Train yourself in godliness, 8 for, while physical training is of some value, godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come. 9 The saying is sure and worthy of full acceptance. 10 For to this end we toil and struggle, because we have our hope set on the living God, who is … [Read more...] about Train Yourself
Young Hearts
By James Cornwell A Reading from 1 Kings 7:51-8:21 51 Thus all the work that King Solomon did on the house of the Lord was finished. Solomon brought in the things that his father David had dedicated, the silver, the gold, and the vessels, and stored them in the treasuries of the house of the Lord. 1 Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel and all the heads of the tribes, … [Read more...] about Young Hearts