It's not unusual for a church to resettle a refugee family from overseas in the Diocese of Virginia, but when St Mary's in Richmond welcomed the Noori family at the Richmond airport it was an extraordinary event by any American's standard.
13 August 2002
The National Council of Churches of Christ (NCCC) is encouraging Christian churches to participate in an Interfaith Hospitality Project as a tangible way to observe the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
07 August 2002
"Bless the Diocese of Texas," said Archbishop of Canterbury, George L Carey, commissioning a crowd of more than 2,000 Episcopalians during a celebratory Eucharist at the Hobby Center for Performing Arts in Houston, Texas, on July 19. "Make it strong. May it reach out in loving sacrifice and service to so many needy people."
24 July 2002
"I believe this is an historic and propitious moment in the life of our beloved Anglican Communion." With those visionary words, the Rt Revd Mark Sisk, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, installed the Primate of the Anglican Church of Nigeria on the International Cathedra of the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in Manhattan.
17 July 2002
The Revd Scott Helferty, Rector of the Grace Episcopal Church on School Street in New Bedford, MA, presided over a Sunday service on June 30 at 10:00am to publicly dedicate the Cary Memorial Altar as a sacramental fitting in memory of the late Joan Cary of South Dartmouth, MA.
08 July 2002
Provisional Purpose Statement..To create an open space wherein representatives from a broad range of Christian churches and interchurch organizations, which confess the triune God and Jesus Christ as perfect in His divinity and humanity, can gather to foster mutual respect, to explore and address together common challenges.
08 July 2002
Bishop William Smalley of Kansas has informed clergy that he will begin authorising the limited blessing of non-married persons. This policy would extend to heterosexual couples for whom marriage would create a financial hardship, and homosexual couples.
01 July 2002
Bishop Barbara Harris of Massachusetts, the first woman to be elected a bishop in the world-wide Anglican Communion, urged graduates from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific to look to the future and become part of the "remnant of God" who will "be vessels of God's love, instruments of reconciliation and channels of God's grace."
05 June 2002
Presiding Bishop Frank T Griswold reflects on recent meeting of primates of the Anglican Communion
27 May 2002
"Our God tends to be too small - too private, too personal, a God we can control, program, buy," warned Dr Fredrica Harris Thompsett of Episcopal Divinity School in her opening address at an April conference on stewardship and evangelism in Massachusetts.
23 May 2002