The current round of violence in Israel and the occupied territories has brought the crisis to its lowest and most dangerous ebb in many years.
03 April 2002
Katherine Tyler Scott, president of Trustee Leadership Development Inc, noted author and leadership educator, has been elected president of the board of the Consortium of Endowed Episcopal Parishes,
26 March 2002
Despite dire predictions of a confrontation over a range of sensitive issues in the life of the Episcopal Church, the annual spring retreat of bishops ended on March 12 with general agreement that it had been one of the deepest and most honest encounters many of them had experienced.
20 March 2002
I often find that the simple seemingly chance experiences of our ordinary days have a way of opening us to new understanding.
20 March 2002
Bishop Jack Iker of Fort Worth has written to Sarah Harte of New York, co-chair of an Executive Council task force that has been asked by General Convention resolution to monitor progress in three dioceses that still do not ordain women to the priesthood, expressing his "dismay" with her report to the recent council meeting in San Antonio.
08 March 2002
Bishops M Thomas Shaw, Barbara Harris and Roy Cedarholm of the Diocese of Massachusetts, and Gordon Scruton of the Diocese of Western Massachusetts, joined other ecumenical leaders in signing an open letter from the Massachusetts Council of Churches addressing the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians.
08 March 2002
Today Presiding Bishop Frank T Griswold issued a brief statement on the crisis in the Middle East. He sent the statement to Secretary of State Colin Powell with his prayers "as you and your office seek ways to resolve this tragic situation with its terrible global consequences." The presiding bishop said:
08 March 2002
In Response to the September 11th tragedy, GraceCom Media Ministry and the Episcopal Cathedral Teleconferencing Network (ECTN), present Trinity Institute's 33rd National Conference as a special live webcast and satellite downlink, "How Then Must We Live?"
05 March 2002
Addressing "the inherent danger which comes from schism," the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church at its meeting in San Antonio, Texas, February 22-25, passed a strongly worded criticism of the Anglican Mission in America (AMiA).
05 March 2002
Participants got an idea that they would be attending an unusual church meeting when the annual gathering of the Domestic Missionary Partnership (DMP) got underway February 7 with the executive board members dressed in costumes from "Star Trek."
02 March 2002