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Episcopal Church offers Lenten resources, meditations

February 8, 2013

Resources, meditations and study guides for experiencing a reflective Lenten season are available from the Episcopal Church. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori’s video Lent Message 2013 is here  http://www.episcopalchurch.org/page/presiding-bishop The […]

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop writes to congregations about Good Friday offering for Jerusalem and Middle East

February 7, 2013

Presiding Bishop hosts online forum: Human Trafficking: A Churchwide Conversation

February 6, 2013

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will host an hour-long exploration into the church’s work in Human Trafficking on Wednesday, March 6. Human Trafficking: A Churchwide Conversation will originate […]

Episcopal Church World Mission Sunday, February 10

February 5, 2013

February 10 is World Mission Sunday in the Episcopal Church. “The last Sunday of Epiphany is recognized every year as World Mission Sunday around the Episcopal Church,” notes the Rev. […]

Media Advisory: Episcopal Church Executive Council to meet in Maryland February 25-27

February 4, 2013

The Executive Council of the Episcopal Church will meet February 25-27 at the Conference Center at the Maritime Institute in Linthicum Heights, MD (Diocese of Maryland). Media representatives wishing to […]

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Lent Message 2013: “Learn more, give alms, share what you have.”

February 4, 2013

Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori on gun violence

February 1, 2013

Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has issued the following statement. _____________________________________________________________   The United States has witnessed far too many public shootings in recent months and years. Far […]

Updated Lesson Plans That Work now available online

January 30, 2013

The popular Lesson Plans That Work, an online resource from the Episcopal Church, has been updated and revised, now with three distinct tracts for younger and older children, and adults. […]

President of House of Deputies calls for action on immigration reform

January 30, 2013

Episcopal Church President of the House of Deputies, the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, has issued a letter calling on Episcopalians to ask their elected officials to support immigration reform. “We […]

Planning team nominations now accepted for Episcopal Youth Event 2014

January 28, 2013
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