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78th General Convention of The Episcopal Church: July 2 sermon by the Rev. Colin Mathewson

July 2, 2015

“There is a single, eternal, and glorious Word whom we worship here today: the Word of God made flesh who dwelt among us, died on the cross of shame, and […]

78th General Convention of The Episcopal Church: June 30 sermon by the Rev. Kimberly Jackson

June 30, 2015

“I invite you to sing a song that resurrects hope within you,” the Rev. Kimberly Jackson, chaplain and vicar of the Absalom Jones Episcopal Center, Emmaus House Chapel, Atlanta http://absalomjones.org/said […]

78th General Convention of The Episcopal Church: June 29 sermon by Archbishop Vicken Aykazian

June 29, 2015

“There are times when the weight of our historic experience seems like it is unbearable,” Archbishop Vicken Aykazian of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church in America said in […]

78th General Convention of The Episcopal Church: June 28 sermon by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori

June 28, 2015

“Talitha, cum.  Get up, girl – and boy, and woman, and man – get up and dance!” Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori told the gathering in her June 28 sermon […]

78th General Convention of The Episcopal Church: June 27 sermon by the Rev. Cathlena A. Plummer

June 28, 2015

“This is my story, this is who I am,.” the Rev. Cathlena A. Plummer of Navajoland shared in her sermon to the 78th General Convention of The Episcopal Church on […]

Bishop Michael Curry from North Carolina Elected 27th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church

June 28, 2015

     The Rt. Rev. Michael Bruce Curry, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, was elected the 27th Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church on the first ballot […]

United Thank Offering grants: $1.3 million for Episcopal Church, Anglican Communion mission and ministry

June 26, 2015

The United Thank Offering of The Episcopal Church awarded 55 grants for a total of $1,558,006.85 for the mission and ministry of The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion. The […]

78th General Convention of The Episcopal Church: June 26 sermon by the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, President of the House of Deputies

June 26, 2015

“We don’t seek solutions whose only virtues are that they save us time, save us energy and save us money,” the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, President of the House of […]

Presiding Bishop on Supreme Court Ruling

June 26, 2015

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has issued this statement following today’s Supreme Court ruling: Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant […]

78th General Convention of The Episcopal Church: June 25 sermon by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori

June 25, 2015

“Follow Jesus into the neighborhoods,” Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said in her sermon at the opening Eucharist to the 78th General Convention of The Episcopal Church on June 25. […]

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