24 Jun 2026 0 Comment

Rome’s St. Paul’s Within the Walls celebrates 150 years as a place of welcome in the eternal city

On Jan. 25, 1873, on the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul, workers laid the cornerstone of St. Paul’s Within the Walls Episcopal Church, the first non-Roman Catholic church built inside Rome’s ancient walls. The land was...
24 Jun 2026 0 Comment

Work begins at Diocese of Atlanta site that will house Episcopal Church Archives

The Episcopal Church is breaking ground this week on a new facility to house its archival collections, on a 3.5-acre property in Oakwood, Georgia, that was the former home of the Diocese of Atlanta’s St. Gabriel’s Episcopal...
16 Jun 2026 0 Comment

Karin MacPhail consecrated 7th bishop of Southwestern Virginia

The Diocese of Southwestern Virginia ordained and consecrated the Rt. Rev. Karin Lee MacPhail as its seventh bishop on June 13 at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Roanoke, Virginia. MacPhail, who succeeds the Rt. Rev. Mark Bourlakas, is...
16 Jun 2026 0 Comment

Northwestern Pennsylvania cathedral to host Jazz Vespers summer series

The Cathedral of St. Paul in Erie, the Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania, will host its third annual Jazz Vespers summer series beginning June 21. A jazz ensemble will accompany Scripture and hymns, poetry and other written works by...
10 Jun 2026 0 Comment

Easton church to challenge Ocean City in federal court in defense of homeless shelter ministry

St. Paul’s by-the-Sea Episcopal Church is preparing to file a federal lawsuit against Ocean City, Maryland, to stop the resort town from shutting down its overnight shelter for unhoused people. On both June 8 and 9, the church...
10 Jun 2026 0 Comment

Draft of King’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ found at Virginia seminary archives

Within a red binder, each of its typewritten pages encased in a plastic sleeve, sits an early draft of the famous letter written by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. as he was held in a jail in Birmingham, Alabama. Ten pages that once...
3 Jun 2026 0 Comment

Episcopalians called to ‘Vote Faithfully’ as church renews, expands election engagement efforts

The Episcopal Church is kicking off its “Vote Faithfully” voter engagement efforts for the 2026 midterm elections with a series of online events to educate Episcopalians on nonpartisan ways they and their congregations can support...
3 Jun 2026 0 Comment

Houses of worship older than America outlasted wars, schisms, lawsuits

On Ash Wednesday this year, about a dozen people attended a noon service at Old North Church in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1723. Two days later, a handful of worshippers took part in a Shabbat service at Touro Synagogue in Newport,...
27 May 2026 0 Comment

New York church celebrates Pentecost with community gathering, Bad Bunny flash dance

St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, an Episcopal parish in New York’s East Village, celebrated Pentecost May 24 with a post-worship neighborhood cookout and a flash dance featuring music by Bad Bunny, a Puerto Rican reggaeton...