On 1 March 2011 Martha Allen joined the Indigenous Theological Training Institute (ITTI) as Executive Director. Martha is a member of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe (Lakota) in South Dakota and was raised an Episcopalian in Native churches throughout the US (her father was an Episcopal priest).
17 March 2011
According to two recent research studies, the pay disparity between male and female clergy in the Episcopal Church mirrors the rest of the United States.
17 March 2011
President Barack Obama announced Feb. 4 that Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori would be joining his administration as a member of the President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
05 February 2011
Episcopalians have joined the rest of the United States in prayer and remembrance following the killing of six people and wounding of 14 others outside a Tucson, Arizona-area grocery store
10 January 2011
When teenagers Ashton Palmer and Andrew Hagedorn decided to raise money to help Salt Lake City area homeless, they set an ambitious goal of $200,000.
06 January 2011
Cleveland L. Sellers Jr, president of Voorhees College, recently became the chairman of the Association of Episcopal Colleges (AEC), the U.S. chapter of the Colleges and Universities of the Anglican Communion (CUAC).
17 December 2010
For the first time in recent history, three Episcopal women's groups have come together to ask the church to participate in 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence.
02 November 2010
A fire that broke out at 3:55 p.m. Oct. 22 destroyed the 129-year old Immanuel Chapel at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, Virginia, according to news reports and a statement from VTS.
22 October 2010
The Bishop of Iowa Alan Scarfe is gearing up to run the next New York marathon in November to help provide clean water for other Communion dioceses around the world.
18 October 2010
In an innovative venture that benefits congregations of all sizes, the Episcopal Church has partnered with GreenFaith, a national religious environmental group, to assist churches' efforts to go green.
15 October 2010