July 1924 brought the Diocese of Georgia’s first summer camp, a vocations conference for 200 boys in New Hampshire, and 47,000 children in New York City’s vacation Bible schools.
“There’s a dramatic shift going on in the Anglican Church, with great growth in Africa and Asia, while in America the church continues to lose ground,” said speaker Michael Green at a 1999 evangelism conference.
The Episcopal Church of the Ascension was founded in 1903 to serve the city’s American population, and its mission house in the heart of the old city included a large library of English-language books.
The Rt. Rev. William Montgomery Brown (1855-1937), also known as “Bad Bishop Brown,” would be tried for heresy by the House of Bishops, and eventually deposed and excommunicated in 1925, the only Episcopal bishop to ever be so condemned for heresy.
Ask Anglicans or Episcopalians how they, their church, and their tradition came to be, and the near-universal, reflexive answer will inevitably come back, “Because...
After a bloody pogrom in Damascus in 1840, the British foreign minister, Lord Palmerston, gained the Ottoman sultan’s support for a plan to encourage...
“It is irreconcilable with the vows voluntarily made at ordination for a minister of this Church to deny, or suggest doubt as to, the facts and truths declared in the Apostles’ Creed.”
“This Sunday, October 24th, is to be observed throughout the world as United Nations Day. We hope that many of our own churches will give some measure of recognition to the United Nations on this occasion.”
The rest of the world, at least, is war-sick. Perhaps in this country we did not suffer enough to make us realize that the prevention of war is the greatest issue that now confronts the world.
God cannot be thought of as giving grace to an idea: and so we have been commending, and do now equally commend, Warren Gamaliel Harding, President of the United States, to the love and direction of our heavenly Father.
