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Two fatalities in Maryland church shooting; co-rector wounded

Two fatalities in Maryland church shooting; co-rector wounded

[Episcopal News Service] Brenda Brewington, administrative assistant of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Ellicott City, Maryland, was found shot dead inside the church office May 3. The Rev. Dr. Mary-Marguerite Kohn, the parish’s co-rector, was also found wounded and remains in critical condition.

08 May 2012

Texas Bishop announces plan to navigate proposed rite

Texas Bishop announces plan to navigate proposed rite

The Bishop of Texas, C. Andrew Doyle, announced his response to the likely approval at this summer’s General Convention of the blessing of same-gender covenants today at a special meeting of diocesan clergy. 

25 April 2012

TEC: Executive Council closes out triennial work

TEC: Executive Council closes out triennial work

[Episcopal News Service - Salt Lake City, Utah] The Episcopal Church’s Executive Council wrapped up its work of the 2010-2012 triennium here on April 20 by discussing its on-going work against racism and issuing a memo saying that the proposed draft budget released to the church “is not exactly” the one it passed.

23 April 2012

Video - Music as mission: A choral journey with John Rutter

Video - Music as mission: A choral journey with John Rutter

The parish of Christ Church Christiana Hundred, just outside of Wilmington, Delaware, puts music to work in service of mission. With roots in a plot of land donated in 1817 by Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, founder of the DuPont Co., the church has had an endowed choral music program for nearly 100 years.

18 April 2012

On Ash Wednesday, Episcopalians take it to the streets

On Ash Wednesday, Episcopalians take it to the streets

Five years ago, the Rev. Teresa K.M. Danieley had an epiphany of sorts. If people can grab breakfast on the go or pay a bill from their cell phone, she thought, why shouldn't they be able to get their ashes in a flash?

22 February 2012

New Digital Formation program focuses on mission and outreach

New Digital Formation program focuses on mission and outreach

Clergy and lay leaders throughout the Episcopal Church are being offered the chance to appreciate the importance of understanding the use and effects of social media in the church as well as its theological foundations and implications

13 February 2012

Anglican Presiding Bishop invited to Anglican Provinces throughout Asia

Anglican Presiding Bishop invited to Anglican Provinces throughout Asia

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has accepted the invitations of Primates of Anglican Communion provinces in Asia to visit, address diocesan gatherings, celebrate Eucharist and preach during February and early March.

09 February 2012

American city will see 'multi-faith neighborhood

American city will see 'multi-faith neighborhood

By Mary Frances Schjonberg – ENInews/ENS Omaha, Nebraska, 14 December (ENInews)--Omaha, Nebraska may not be the place that some imagine as fertile ground for the prospect of the three Abrahamic faiths finding common ground but, the vision of such peaceful co-existence has taken a major step towards becoming reality.

16 December 2011

Anglican Prayer Books Collection Unveiled at University of Kentucky

Anglican Prayer Books Collection Unveiled at University of Kentucky

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Dec. 1, 2011) − The Abbitt-DuPriest Collection of Anglican Prayer Books at the University of Kentucky will be unveiled as part of a dedication ceremony scheduled for 5 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, in the Great Hall, of the Margaret I. King Building. The dedication ceremony is free and open to the public.

07 December 2011

TEC: Protestors urge Trinity to open property to encampment

TEC: Protestors urge Trinity to open property to encampment

Supported by members of the faith community, Occupy Wall Street is calling upon Trinity Episcopal Church, Wall Street, in New York to allow protestors to establish a winter camp at property it owns at Sixth Avenue and Canal Street, about a mile north of the movement’s original encampment at Zuccotti Park in Manhattan.

06 December 2011