NYC Rector Faces Reopening Dilemma June 10, 2020 Features, Highlight The rector of New York's historic Grace Church reflects on opportunities brought by live-streamed worship and enduring complications about how and when to regather.
Reopening Brings New Challenges for Altar Guilds June 9, 2020 Features, Highlight Altar Guilds across the Episcopal Church adjust to new, intensive procedures to keep their congregations safe while sharing in the Eucharist together. The Rt. Rev. Greg Brewer shares guidelines for preparing carefully and communicating well.
ETHICS: Climate Change and the Lordship of Christ June 5, 2020 Features, Highlight Climate change is not just an unfortunate atmospheric phenomenon; it emerges out of a fallen global system that distorts creaturely life and alienates humans from one another and creation.
The Narrow Path of the Parish Priest June 4, 2020 Features, Highlight Ideally, the parish priest neither sits back, nor stands in front, but rather nurtures the laity to take broader leadership roles, while paying attention to the needs of the whole flock.
Economics and COVID-19 May 20, 2020 Essays & Reviews, Features, Highlight The trauma of the pandemic has not erased our differences, but has instead revealed how deep-seated our differences are, and how deeply they divide us.
Clergy: Good on Finances But Need Better Habits May 18, 2020 Features, Highlight A Church Pension Group study found that Episcopal clergy know more about personal finances and are more likely to live beneath their means than comparable peers in the general population, but wide disparities also exist.
Rest for Your Souls May 17, 2020 Features, Highlight Spiritual director Marcia Hotchkiss urges the Church to "share a little more hope, a little more Jesus," in these times of great suffering and uncertainty.
Episcopal Asian-Americans Targeted in Pandemic May 13, 2020 Features, Updates People of Asian descent report threats and harassment based on their ethnicity, based on the fact that the first reported cases of COVID-19 were in China.
A Hymn for Today: A Tiny Thing We Cannot See May 12, 2020 Features Nonagenarian Rae Whitney, one of the Episcopal Church's most prolific hymn writers has released a hymn about this season of the coronavirus. Writing from her Nebraska retirement home, Whitney offers a tribute to brave caregivers and a word of hope for the troubled.
