Episcopal Church
Episcopal men’s ministry loses board members, chapters over response to George Floyd’s death
By Emily McFarlan Miller — October 12, 2020
(RNS) — The Brotherhood of St. Andrew has publicly apologized and said they realize they need to do more to combat systemic racism and white privilege in the organization and beyond. Others say it has a long way to go.
Episcopal Diocese of Chicago planning to sell downtown headquarters
By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 16, 2020
CHICAGO (RNS) — ‘Maintaining an underused diocesan headquarters in an expensive building on prime real estate is not good stewardship of diocesan assets,’ said Episcopal Bishop Jeffrey D. Lee of Chicago.
Mark Galli, former Christianity Today editor and Trump critic, to be confirmed a Catholic
By Yonat Shimron — September 10, 2020
(RNS) — Galli, who bucked prevailing evangelical sentiments when he penned an editorial in December denouncing the president, says his faith decision has nothing to do with politics.
Black clergy testify to outrage and hope in demonstrations across Washington
By Jack Jenkins — June 15, 2020
(RNS) — Citing recent killings by police as well as the ravages of the pandemic, leaders of several faiths called on the government to take responsibility.
Ahead of Trump Bible photo op, police forcibly expel priest from St. John’s church near White House
By Jack Jenkins — June 2, 2020
WASHINGTON (RNS) — An Episcopal priest tells RNS she was driven from church grounds ahead of Trump’s staged photo with a Bible.
Breakaway Anglican group that left Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth wins property fight
By Yonat Shimron — May 26, 2020
(RNS) — The Texas ruling may be the first time that a breakaway diocese has prevailed in a legal fight over church property.
Opposition to Samaritan’s Purse Central Park field hospital grows
By Yonat Shimron — April 14, 2020
(RNS) — LGBTQ activists stood several yards away from Samaritan Purse’s field hospital on the East Meadow lawn on Tuesday (April 14) and blasted city and state officials and Mount Sinai Hospital for partnering with the evangelical humanitarian relief organization.
One church’s tale of two pandemics, 100 years apart
By Megan Botel and Isaiah Murtaugh — April 14, 2020
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — The experience of St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, founded to serve Japanese immigrants at the time of the 1918 flu epidemic, shows how Americans of faith weathered a crisis strikingly similar to this one.
Mexican American religious life will be preserved in UCLA archive collection
By Alejandra Molina — April 14, 2020
LOS ANGELES (RNS) — By acknowledging these nuances of religion, ‘you end up with a much more complex understanding of people,’ said Chon Noriega, director of the Chicano Studies Research Center.
Pushing guns during a pandemic
By Bishops United Against Gun Violence — April 8, 2020
(RNS) — Americans bought 1 million more guns last month than are normally sold at this time of year.
Washington National Cathedral donates 5,000 medical masks resurrected from crypts
By Paul O'Donnell — March 25, 2020
(RNS) — The 5,000 N95 respiratory masks had been forgotten until the cathedral’s chief stonemason, Joseph Alonso, stumbled on them in an unfinished area of the crypt level early this month.
In this Episcopal church, the co-leader of the Lenten study is a rabbi
By Yonat Shimron — March 19, 2020
(RNS) — Rabbi Raachel Jurovics is now rabbi-in-residence at the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina — one of a handful of such posts in Episcopal dioceses.
Bishop Barbara Harris, first woman bishop of Anglican Communion, dies at 89
By Adelle M. Banks — March 14, 2020
(RNS) — ‘She was larger than life because she lived it fully with her God and with us,’ said Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry.
Why mainline Protestants might fear COVID-19 the most
By Ryan Burge — March 11, 2020
(RNS) — If COVID-19 becomes a true global pandemic, it would deeply affect mainline Protestant churches, seven of which rank in the 10 religious traditions in the United States with the oldest, and therefore most vulnerable, members.
Episcopal diocese suspends Communion wine, drains baptismal fonts due to coronavirus
By Jack Jenkins — March 10, 2020
WASHINGTON (RNS) — ‘We’re to be good citizens, and we’re to be good neighbors,’ said the Rev. Mariann Budde, the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, who distributed a letter outlining new diocesanwide policies meant to curb the spread of the disease.
