13 May 2026 0 Comment

Goat herd feasts on Michigan church’s invasive plants

For almost a century, cartoons have depicted goats as animals that will eat anything. In Walt Disney’s 1928 animated short “Steamboat Willie,” for example, a goat eats Minnie Mouse’s guitar and sheet music. In Sony Pictures...
13 May 2026 0 Comment

Documentary tells the story of Washington National Cathedral’s West Rose window

A documentary on the Washington National Cathedral’s West Rose stained-glass window tells the story of the window’s creation and how it made the neo-Gothic building a space that embraces both tradition and modernity. Filming the...
6 May 2026 0 Comment

Bike blessings offer prayers for safety as cyclists hit the roads this National Bike Month

Getting to St. Mary’s Episcopal Church for Sunday services is a 17-mile round trip for Bob Perkins from his home in Oconomowoc. As an avid bicyclist, he is likely to cover those miles on two wheels instead of four. It’s an even...
6 May 2026 0 Comment

Musical tribute to Bishop Gene Robinson makes Indiana debut

A choral piece honoring the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop elected in The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion, made its Indiana debut May 3 at Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Indianapolis during a...
29 Apr 2026 0 Comment

Book of Common Prayer draws Gen Z to the Anglican, Episcopal tradition

In St. Luke’s Chapel at the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale in New Haven, Connecticut, Books of Common Prayer slump in chair pockets, their spinal integrity lost to decades of common worship. Every day, seminarians pray liturgies that...
29 Apr 2026 0 Comment

Former Georgia church properties become hubs for outreach ministries, community activities

The Diocese of Georgia is finding new life for two repurposed church properties after the congregations that had worshiped there disbanded. One is now the diocesan headquarters. Last year, staff moved into the second floor of the parish...
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...