“Especially do we earnestly call upon our bishops and clergy to lead us in such a Lenten abstinence; for these can scarcely know how difficult they make the abstinence of the laity when a bishop or priest is willing to drink socially at the table of a known law-breaker.”
Charles Field S.S.J.E. of Boston's Temple Street Mission gathered the West End's children for mystery plays, trained boys as newspaper printers, and advocated for sanitary improvements and a new library in his neglected Black neighborhood.
The Maoists banned religious instruction in the school and forced teachers to attend Sunday morning lectures on Communism, but missionary Robert Wood remained hopeful in his fiftieth year at St. Michael's, Wuchang.
Those who attended the mission throughout agreed unanimously that the people of Washington experienced a spiritual revival, conducted without undue or fanatic emotion, such as never before had been offered them, and they also are in agreement that “it can happen in the Episcopal Church.”
“It may be said that the clergy and laity are definitely opposed to any blurring of the distinction between the ordained ministry and the general ‘priesthood of the laity.’”
The center, located in Murray’s childhood home in Durham, North Carolina, contains exhibits about her life and provides space for community and social-justice programs.
July 1924 brought the Diocese of Georgia’s first summer camp, a vocations conference for 200 boys in New Hampshire, and 47,000 children in New York City’s vacation Bible schools.
“There’s a dramatic shift going on in the Anglican Church, with great growth in Africa and Asia, while in America the church continues to lose ground,” said speaker Michael Green at a 1999 evangelism conference.
The Episcopal Church of the Ascension was founded in 1903 to serve the city’s American population, and its mission house in the heart of the old city included a large library of English-language books.
The Rt. Rev. William Montgomery Brown (1855-1937), also known as “Bad Bishop Brown,” would be tried for heresy by the House of Bishops, and eventually deposed and excommunicated in 1925, the only Episcopal bishop to ever be so condemned for heresy.
Ask Anglicans or Episcopalians how they, their church, and their tradition came to be, and the near-universal, reflexive answer will inevitably come back, “Because...
After a bloody pogrom in Damascus in 1840, the British foreign minister, Lord Palmerston, gained the Ottoman sultan’s support for a plan to encourage...
“It is irreconcilable with the vows voluntarily made at ordination for a minister of this Church to deny, or suggest doubt as to, the facts and truths declared in the Apostles’ Creed.”
