Presiding Bishop Michael Curry writes in response to President Trump’s intention to exclude transgender citizens from military service: In light of President Trump’s tweet banning transgender individuals from serving in the military and the Department of Justice’s argument that employers can legally discriminate against people on the basis of sexual orientation, I am compelled … [Read more...] about PB Protests Transgender Policy
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Reunion Talks Roll On
U.S. citizens will face tighter restrictions on travel to Cuba just as reintegration between the Episcopal Church and the Episcopal Church in Cuba becomes a real possibility. On June 16 President Donald Trump announced revisions to U.S. policies on travel to Cuba, rolling back more permissible Obama-era rules that allowed travelers to explore the island on their own for … [Read more...] about Reunion Talks Roll On
Barron Trump, Class of 2024
Valerie Strauss writes for The Washington Post: Barron Trump, the 11-year-old son of President Trump and first lady Melania Trump, will attend the private St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac, Md., this fall after he moves from New York to Washington with his mother. Barron Trump is finishing out the current school year at Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School on the … [Read more...] about Barron Trump, Class of 2024
Bishops Defend Refugees (updated)
Updated on April 26: The original posting of this news noted 14 bishops’ names. TLC has since learned that a draft version of the amici curiae brief did not include the names of the Rt. Rev. Gladstone B. Adams III, Bishop Provisional of the Episcopal Church in South Carolina, and the Rt. Rev. Barry L. Beisner, Bishop of Northern California. Another brief, … [Read more...] about Bishops Defend Refugees (updated)
Bishops’ Climate Protest
Open Minder/Flickr Adapted from Episcopal News Service President Donald Trump on March 28 signed an executive order instructing regulators to rewrite rules aimed at curbing carbon emissions and other environmental regulations at the center of the previous administration’s policies to combat global warming. Thirteen bishops from across the Episcopal … [Read more...] about Bishops’ Climate Protest
‘Among the Most Vulnerable’
The Rev. Canon E. Mark Stevenson, director of Episcopal Migration Ministries, responds to rulings U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang of Maryland and U.S. District Judge Derrick K. Watson of Hawaii that freeze President Trump’s second executive order regarding immigration: On behalf of Episcopal Migration Ministries, I give thanks that the courts have once … [Read more...] about ‘Among the Most Vulnerable’
Immigration Order Fallout
Sarah Pulliam Bailey writes for The Washington Post: One of the nine organizations that works with the United [Nations’] refugee program announced Wednesday it will lay off about 140 staff and close five offices that have resettled more than 25,000 refugees. In a statement, evangelical relief and development agency World Relief called the decision “a direct result of the … [Read more...] about Immigration Order Fallout
Originalist and Episcopalian
♦ ♦ ♦ Robert Barnes reports for The Washington Post about President Trump’s nomination of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch for the Supreme Court: Gorsuch is seen as a less bombastic version of Scalia; he also believes in an “originalist” interpretation of the Constitution and would seem destined to be a solidly conservative vote on the ideologically split court. But friends and … [Read more...] about Originalist and Episcopalian