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Navigating a Massive Shift to Part-Time Clergy

Sixty-four percent of Episcopal congregations don’t have a paid, full-time priest.

Partner Spotlights 2024

These are stories of fundraisers, children’s choirs, church fires, parish picnics, bats in the nave, and communities in need.

New EDS Dean Seeks to Fill Gaps in Theological Education

An unaccredited seminary with neither buildings nor faculty — yet buttressed by an $80 million endowment — Episcopal Divinity School is determining what offering it will bring to the church in its current iteration, says new dean and president Lydia Kelsey Bucklin.

‘Making St. Peter’s a Great Church’: Adamses Complete 43-Year Ministry

Fr. Jim Adams: “We took two sabbaticals in the 43 years, and one led to us starting choirs and the other led to us starting the school.”

‘While Ludlow Tower Shall Stand’: St. Laurence, Ludlow, Shropshire

The gateway to the Western Marches, Ludlow was an important frontier town.

Into the Light of Things: Caring for God’s Creation

To read William Wordsworth’s The Prelude is to discover anew, in our memories and “spots of time,” the joy and reverence we have for the natural world.

Losing My Religion

“They’ve been moving on and on. Getting further apart. They’re so far off by now that they could never think of coming to the...

God, Beauty, and Architecture

There is a uniquely problematic desire to build for the divine in the very human world of architecture.

Christ Church Riverdale Builds on a 160-Year History

“There’s no magic bullet for growth,” said the Rev. Emily Anderson Lukanich, rector. “We experienced the growth from 2017, but with a change in leadership.”

A Parish Grows in Brooklyn

Ben DeHart looks at St. John’s as a “198-year-old startup,” and he says church attendance has been steadily rising.

‘Youth Are the Church Now’

This week hundreds of young people have descended on Louisville, Kentucky, for the 81st General Convention. Here are a few of those emerging leaders.

¡Todos son bienvenidos!

Six Mexican Parishes that Offer Services in English When many Americans took longer summer holidays, Episcopalians often attended one of the many seasonal chapels dotting...

Curry Tribute: A Genuine Pastor

Bishop Curry’s accomplishments, inspirational sermons, sage wisdom, and steady urging to follow in the ways of Jesus are already filling books on our shelves.

Curry Tribute: A Gracious Heart

In his presence and actions, he was demonstrating, as he said earlier that day in his dynamic sermon, that “Jesus turns the world upside down.”

Curry Tribute: A Beacon of Light and Life

Bishop Curry has a deep and wide-ranging giftedness — of passion for the gospel, justice among people and peoples, and collegiality — which has been honed over 45 years of ordained ministry.

Young Clergy Connect, Learn in Manhattan

About 70 young Episcopal clergy and seminarians gathered in New York on May 9 and 10 to learn from the Presiding Bishop, seven serving bishops, and other senior leaders about their common calling.

Children, Hope, and Our Declining Churches

This review discusses suicide. P.D. James’s dystopian novel, The Children of Men, describes an unnerving world in which humanity suddenly and collectively loses the ability...

The ‘E-Word,’ Part Two

In part one I made the case that evangelism and salvation must be reunited in our thinking. A part of the core nature of...

The ‘E-Word’

A rector tells the story of publicizing an adult forum that she called “The E-word.” She didn’t tell her class members what the E-word was,...

Thoughts on Church Scandal

You may be surprised to learn that the word scandal does not occur in the most common English translations of the Bible. And yet...

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