17 Dec 2025 0 Comment

Swiss military welcomes first Episcopal chaplain into its ranks

Being a chaplain in the Swiss military comes with challenges. Many are unfamiliar with what a chaplain does, and past church encounters with church people have “spooked” a lot of people, Erin Lederrey told Episcopal News...
17 Dec 2025 0 Comment

Former Presiding Bishop Michael Curry keeps busy travel schedule in first year of retirement

Travel. It typically ranks high on lists of retirement goals, offering an adventurous or relaxing break from the retiree’s former professional routine. The Rt. Rev. Michael Curry is no typical retiree. Travel dominated his...
10 Dec 2025 0 Comment

New York diocese leads the church in spreading awareness about violence against women, girls

The Diocese of New York’s Task Force on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault spreads awareness of violence against women and girls year-round, culminating in December when it observes “16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based...
10 Dec 2025 0 Comment

After lightning slashes historic church’s steeple, congregation rallies behind reconstruction project

“Act of God,” as a commonplace insurance term, may never have been more dramatically applied than to the scarred steeple that, for now, still sits atop St. Mary the Virgin Episcopal Church in Pocomoke City, Maryland. That scar,...
3 Dec 2025 0 Comment

At Sewanee, Lessons and Carols services ground choral students in faith

The student body at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, is religiously diverse, with Episcopalians making up about 20%, but the Episcopal institution holds on to its Anglican identity through its campus traditions, including...
3 Dec 2025 0 Comment

Episcopalians nurture Advent tradition of displaying nativities from around the world

Advent has arrived at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church in Brevard, North Carolina, and the seasonal altar furnishings aren’t the only telltale signs. For three days this week, Dec. 4-6, the congregation will place tables across the pews...
26 Nov 2025 0 Comment

https://episcopalnewsservice.org/2025/11/25/pittsburgh-traveling-choir-brings-live-music-to-the-pews-in-underserved-communities/

The Diocese of Pittsburgh, though based in a large city, has many small churches in rural areas of southwestern Pennsylvania with no music program. To help bring music to those congregations, a group of volunteer chorists, called the...
26 Nov 2025 0 Comment

Indigenous boarding school research groups merge as Truth, Justice and Healing Commission

The Episcopal Church is entering a new phase of reckoning with its historic complicity in the federal Indigenous boarding school system, as two church committees that had been examining that history have merged into the new Truth, Justice...
19 Nov 2025 0 Comment

Diocese of Pennsylvania distributes proceeds from church property sale to food ministries

The congregation of St. Philip-in-the-Fields Episcopal Church in Oreland, Pennsylvania, held its last worship services in its former church building in May 2016. Now, nearly 10 years later, that building’s legacy lives on in a new effort...