Episcopal
How We Learn to be Brave with Bishop Mariann Budde
By Jonathan Woodward — June 9, 2023
Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde's new book, How We Learn To Be Brave: Decisive Moments in Life and Faith; and a new Interfaith Alliance resource for combating antisemitism.
As workers seek to unionize, some clergy are filling a crucial role
By Alejandra Molina — February 4, 2022
(RNS) — 'We can actually put to life our Catholic social teaching regarding work in a real, concrete way,' said the Rev. Sinclair Oubre.
Church known as a birthplace of LA’s Chicano civil rights movement earns national recognition
By Alejandra Molina — February 8, 2021
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — The Church of the Epiphany in the 1960s became a center for the flourishing Chicano movement. Five decades later, it has earned a spot on the National Register of Historic Places.
Closed for months by COVID-19, church reopens to provide respite on Election Day
By Alejandra Molina — November 4, 2020
PASADENA, Calif. (RNS) — The leadership at All Saints, a church with a long history of progressive activism, decided that opening the building to the public and parishioners was ‘a way for them to be in community.’
Amid escalated police presence, Episcopal church offers sanctuary to protesters in Pasadena
By Alejandra Molina — August 23, 2020
PASADENA (RNS) — More than 10 protesters wound up spending the night at All Saints Church after the Rev. Mike Kinman said a brief standoff with police ensued outside the church.
As Americans become less religious, the role of chaplains may grow
By Alejandra Molina — November 27, 2019
(RNS) — As fewer people identify with a specific religion and as houses of faith experience a drop in attendance, some religious scholars expect that in the next number of years people will be more likely to meet a chaplain than a local clergyperson.
Democratic Party is at an inflection point when it comes to courting religious voters
By Ryan Burge — October 1, 2019
(RNS) — Will Democrats continue to try to court the rapidly growing group of religiously unaffiliated Americans, hoping they will offset the losses Democrats are sustaining among white Protestant Christians? Or do they try to make inroads among moderate Christians who have abandoned them in large numbers over the last decade? The answer may decide the 2020 presidential election.
Episcopal couples, advocates hope the church removes gay marriage restrictions
By Holly Meyer — July 5, 2018
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (USA Today) — Episcopalians will consider altering rules related to weddings for same-sex couples when they gather this month in Texas for the denomination's triennial meeting.
Episcopalians scramble to capitalize on royal wedding opportunity
By Mark A. Kellner — May 17, 2018
(RNS) — For the Episcopal Church, the occasion marks a moment of opportunity to welcome newcomers and show the world Episcopalians are not entirely marginalized for their progressive views on gay ordination and same-sex marriage.
Episcopal saint is namesake of new Yale residential college
By Lauren Markoe — April 28, 2016
(RNS) Pauli Murray is the first Yale college named for an African-American woman.
Diana Butler Bass grounds herself in nature and finds God
By Jennifer Preyss — October 8, 2015
(RNS) Her latest book, “Grounded: Finding God in the World, a Spiritual Revolution,” champions a return to nature and an embrace of hospitality. It also begs a frequent question, “Where is God?”
The ‘Splainer: Episcopalians approve same-sex marriage liturgy
By Kimberly Winston — July 2, 2015
(RNS) The Episcopal Church voted to approve same-sex marriages Wednesday (July 1). Say what? Don't we all know at least one married, same-sex Episcopal couple? Let us 'Splain . . . .
Malcolm Boyd, the gay rights icon you’ve probably never heard of
By Jay Michaelson — March 2, 2015
(RNS) One gets the sense that the Rev. Malcolm Boyd and many others like him were a little too religious for the liberals, and too liberal for the religious.
Maryland diocese asks bishop involved in fatal DUI to resign
By Reuters — January 29, 2015
(Reuters) Bishop Suffragan Heather Cook, the diocese's first female bishop and second highest official, is charged with manslaughter in the hit-and-run death of cyclist Tom Palermo in Baltimore.
The Occasional Pilgrim: San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral
By Kimberly Winston — November 24, 2014
SAN FRANCISCO (RNS) Grace Cathedral, begun in 1928, is now an epicenter of spirituality in the City by the Bay. Fifty years after its formal completion, the landmark cathedral attracts pilgrims from around the world.
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