22 Apr 2026 0 Comment

California’s oldest congregation supports Episcopal energy independence goals with solar array

California’s oldest Episcopal congregation, founded in 1849, just became one of the newest churches to go green, with a 20-kilowatt solar array. Trinity St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in San Francisco on April 19 commissioned the 47...
22 Apr 2026 0 Comment

Rio Grande church more than doubles its congregation after expanding its mission

In Las Cruces, New Mexico, a city that’s more than 60% Latino, only a few Protestant churches offer Spanish-language worship services. When in December St. James Episcopal Church began engaging in Latino outreach, its attendance went...
15 Apr 2026 0 Comment

Church panelists argue US war in Iran fails tests of both ‘just war’ and pacifist traditions

The United States launches a deadly war thousands of miles away in Iran. The “Secretary of War” frames the military attacks as aligned with “the providence of our almighty God.” The president threatens that “a whole civilization...
15 Apr 2026 0 Comment

Alabama cathedral in talks to buy nearby Board of Education building for $5.5 million

The Episcopal cathedral in the Diocese of Alabama reportedly has offered $5.5 million to purchase a building across the street in response to the congregation’s growth. Cathedral Church of the Advent in downtown Birmingham plans to...
8 Apr 2026 0 Comment

South Carolina Episcopal campus ministry is a source of faith, fellowship for cadets

Olivia Kassebaum isn’t a typical college sophomore. As a finance major at The Citadel Military College in Charleston, South Carolina, she must adhere to wearing an authorized uniform and hairstyle and keep her barracks clean and tidy at...
8 Apr 2026 0 Comment

Easton diocese’s church becomes overnight shelter to keep unhoused people from facing jail time

An Episcopal parish in Ocean City, Maryland, is facing a potential new legal clash with city officials after it last week began allowing unhoused people to sleep inside the church. St. Paul’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, which is part...
1 Apr 2026 0 Comment

Diocese of Pennsylvania’s Transformation Initiative envisions new uses for 26 church properties

Here’s a number that has weighed on the minds of Episcopal leaders in the Diocese of Pennsylvania and on the budgets of some of the diocese’s 136 congregations: 2.5 million. That is how much space in square feet the diocese...
1 Apr 2026 0 Comment

Judge rejects Johnson Amendment settlement, keeping ban on pastors endorsing candidates

A federal judge rejected a settlement that would have lifted an IRS ban on pastors endorsing candidates, saying the court had no authority to approve an agreement, in a surprising end to a decades-long battle. Judge J. Campbell Barker...
25 Mar 2026 0 Comment

Training Episcopal priests for ministry is central topic at House of Bishops’ weeklong meeting

The House of Bishops is wrapping up a weeklong meeting at Camp Allen in the Diocese of Texas, where discussions focused on a range of issues affecting the future of The Episcopal Church, particularly theological education for aspiring...