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Financing gender equityA new budget tool kit will soon help Anglican women rebuild the world for greater economic justice and gender equity. So say leaders of Anglican Women's Empowerment (AWE), whose mission continues to amplify women's voices and views at the United Nations (UN) and in the Anglican Communion. AWE is now raising funds to make the tool kit a reality by y...
Imago Dei Middle School placed third in national competition for eco-friendly dream schoolStudents from Imago Dei Middle School in Tucson, Arizona, learned that they had placed third in the School of the Future Design Competition at the awards gala on May 2. The ceremony took place at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. "When they announced that we got third place, I fe...
Everyone, Everywhere world mission conference an opportunity to learn, share, celebrateEpiscopalians active in global mission work will gather at the church-wide world mission conference, Everyone, Everywhere, June 5-8 at The Conference Center at the Maritime Institute near Baltimore, Maryland. Representing more than 60 dioceses of The Episcopal Church and six provinces of the Anglica...
'Mama' to many Sister Jane Mankaa was 16 when she joined the Sisters of Emmanuel, a contemplative order in her native Cameroon. But something was missing. "I've always found some emptiness in my heart," she recalls. "I knew I had to do something, but I didn't know exactly [what]." The answer da...
Blending traditionsAt the Good Shepherd Mission, also known as Church of the Good Shepherd, we merge the gospel with our Diné traditional belief. We believe that, in many instances, Christian teachings and our Diné traditional teachings are similar. My grandmother (who was a medicine woman, performed the Beauty Way ...
IOWA: Bikers take to the roads in support of clean water, MDGsTwelve hearty peddlers took to the highways and byways of Iowa early on the morning of Ascension Day, May 1, as the Waters of Hope bike ride officially got underway. The riders come from three states: Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska. Following a "blessing of the bikes" by Iowa Bishop Alan Scar...
Free summer camp for military kids set for Kanuga; May 6 deadline for registrationThe National Military Family Association (NMFA) has chosen Kanuga's Camp Bob to host a free summer camp program called Operation Purple for 100 children ages 8-12 whose parents are or will be deployed. The camp session is August 4-8 and registration ends Monday, May 6. Due to their popularity, Opera...
Lainya diocese, ERD partner to support Sudan's returning refugeesThe Diocese of Lainya in the Episcopal Church of the Sudan (ECS) is partnering with Episcopal Relief and Development (ERD) to support vocational training programs for returning refugees in southern Sudan, one of the primary challenges of the post-war conditions in Africa's largest country....
Virginia Seminary Celebrates Earth Day with Kreitler Environmental LectureIn celebration of Earth Day, Virginia Theological Seminary launched the first Kreitler Environmental Lecture on April 22, featuring biblical scholar and environmentalist Dr. Ellen Davis, professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School, speaking on "Becoming Human: Biblical Int...
Ecumenical conference in Washington D.C. seeks path to 'peace in Jerusalem'Promoting a peaceful, two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict has seldom been more discouraging or difficult, delegates to the annual Churches for Middle East Peace Conference, held in Washington, D.C., April 20-22, heard from a variety of experts. But this work is more important than ev...
Earth-honoring, Earth-healing are topics of ecumenical meeting on climate changeWhen the Ecumenical Roundtable on Science, Technology and the Church assembled at Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, New Mexico, April 11 and 12, Larry Rasmussen, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus, Union Theological Seminary, New York City, challenged representatives of the five denominations gathered to devel...
What's on the menu?The link between the health of our planet and of ourselves comes into focus when we consider our food system. School lunches, school gardens and even school composting play an important part in that system for children at Episcopal schools...
Green education: Episcopal schools move toward sustainabilityA little more than a year after moving into their new school building, students at St. Philip's Academy in Newark, New Jersey, not only have a much bigger, brighter science lab, but they also have a building that itself serves as a teaching tool. Elements of the structure, as well as meters and gaug...
NCC Eco-Justice Program challenges congregations to address climate changeThe National Council of Churches (NCC) Eco-Justice Program challenges "congregations to take action to address climate change" in their resources for Earth Sunday 2008, "The Poverty of Global Climate Change."...
Small church, big heartI recently told our mission congregation of St. Francis of Assisi (San Francisco de Asís) in San Juan, Puerto Rico, that we are the small church with a big heart. I am very convinced of this. There are no "buts" in the phrase. We are not the church that is small but that has a big heart. ...
IOWA: Swaziland companion relationship deepens; clean water and evangelism efforts for 2008As the Anglican Communion prepares for the once-a-decade Lambeth Conference, Iowa Episcopalians are growing deeper into a companion relationship that was born at the bishops' gathering 20 years ago. This year the Diocese of Iowa will help the Diocese of Swaziland commemorate its 40th anniversary wit...
Anglican delegation to UNCSW issues statementWomen who gathered from across the Anglican Communion to provide input to the annual session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW), meet with other NGOs, and meet amongst themselves, have issued a statement...
Financing for gender equity explored by Anglican leaders, scholarsAnglican Women's Empowerment's (AWE) week-long series of activities geared toward the Anglican understanding of gender equity and its relationship to human and social development, culminated on March 1 at Trinity Church Wall Street in New York City with a panel presentation themed "The Intersec...
Living Stones Partnership endorses Ministry Developers' Collaborative action initiativesAction steps to advance the development of baptismal ministry was the focus of the Living Stones Partnership when it gathered February 16-19 in Des Moines, Iowa. While devoting most of their time together to reflect on one another's baptismal ministry case studies, members also took time to review a...
Vision before fund raisingLate last year, I read that Americans spend $20 billion a year on ice cream while the United Nations figures it would take $14 billion and 10 years to provide clean water and basic sanitation and health care for the whole world. These statistics made me think immediately of life in the small church,...
EYE Design Team will welcome church's youth to San Antonio this summerWhen nearly 1,500 young Episcopalians arrive in San Antonio, Texas this July, they will take part in a five-day gathering that has been meticulously planned by a group of youth and adults from around the church....
From riots to rebirthThe past and future of Newark, New Jersey, is rooted, in part, in the Episcopal Church. There is no better place to get a sense of those roots than to stand outside the back of Trinity and St. Philip's, the Episcopal cathedral in downtown Military Park. While Anglicans worshipped in Newark from the ...
Glimpses of HopeLast Spring, three members of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Chester, Vermont -- Susanna Grannis, Belinda Whipple-Worth and I -- traveled to South Africa and Rwanda. We are all board members of Children Affected by HIV/AIDS (CHABHA), and we visited the orphan-support projects the organization funds ...
Seamen's Knit 4 Lent initiative to serve mariners working in Gulf CoastEpiscopal knitters and groups across the country are invited to include "Knit 4 Lent" as part of their Lenten discipline. The Seamen's Church Institute (SCI) is hoping to gather 4,000 of the very popular hand-knit or crocheted hats in the 40 days of Lent for mariners working in the Gulf Co...
Eco-Palm Project makes environmental, social justice part of Palm Sunday celebrationsJesus' entrance into Jerusalem, accented by the jubilant waving of palm fronds, is re-enacted each Palm Sunday in Christian congregations worldwide as the observance of Holy Week begins....
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