Driving along what is left of the beachfront boulevard in Bay St. Louis, one sees a lot of green. Nature has reinvented itself; flora and fauna are prolific along the Mississippi coastline.
30 August 2007
In the wake of Dean, a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds at about 150 miles per hour, Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) has contacted partners in Jamaica, Belize, Haiti and the Dominican Republic and other parts of the region.
22 August 2007
Virginia Theological Seminary welcomes the Very Revd Dr. Ian Markham who steps into position today as the Seminary’s 14th Dean and President. Elected by a unanimous vote of the Board of Trustees, Markham succeeds the Very Reverend Martha J. Horne who served with distinction as Dean and President of the Seminary over the past thirteen years.
02 August 2007
In response to an urgent appeal from the Episcopal Church of Sudan, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has issued a statement calling on all U.S. Episcopalians to pray and advocate for the people of Sudan, amid 'fears that open warfare could resume within months, producing a humanitarian disaster of tremendous proportion.
02 August 2007
The fabric of four centuries of history - woven with the 1607 beginnings of the Jamestown Settlement, Native American responses, and the rise of the African slave trade - was prayerfully examined on June 24 as Episcopalians gathered for Eucharist to mark the church's 400-year heritage rooted in the region.
26 June 2007
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has written to Nigerian Primate, Archbishop Peter J. Akinola asking him to reconsider plans to install Bishop Martyn Minns as a bishop in the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA), an action she says ‘would violate the ancient customs of the church’ and would ‘not help the efforts of reconciliation.’
02 May 2007
'To withhold or contaminate water; to be unconscious or deliberately unaware of brothers and sisters who lack water and all else that upholds their wellbeing and dignity, is to stand against the very One under whom this nation of ours has placed itself.' Such were the words of the Rt Revd Frank T. Griswold, former Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
02 May 2007
Communicators packed 400 years into their April 25-28 annual meeting, from commemorating the beginnings of the first European settlement and Anglican Church in the New World, to contemplating future mission amid the rapidly evolving ‘wiki’ world of technology and celebrating with a Hip Hop Mass.
01 May 2007
Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) commemorates Africa Malaria Day 2007 on April 25th. The theme for this year, created by the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, is ‘Leadership and Partnership for Results.’ It is also the first Malaria Awareness Day in the United States.
25 April 2007
In a moving evening service of prayer, the Revd Canon Howard Anderson, Warden of the Washington Episcopal Cathedral College, led a reflection in which he spoke of a 'litany of horror' and of this 'mindless tragedy'.
24 April 2007