In August I started as a new seminarian at Virginia Theological Seminary; 2,700 miles away from home in San Diego. I realized quickly the importance of making friends outside the […]

The Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC), the “Seafarers’ Bill of Rights,” will go into effect this Tuesday, 20 August 2013. This new International Labour Organization (ILO) convention consolidates and updates […]

Is anyone noticing the remarkable journey Chris Matthews (host of MSNBC’s Hardball) is on?  Now, I’ve never met Chris Matthews, although I would like to, especially as he takes a […]

Queridos hermanos y hermanas en Cristo, En los últimos convenios generales y en nuestra última Asamblea diocesana, la Iglesia Episcopal aprobó resoluciones en las que pedía al gobierno que instituya […]

What with provisions of the Affordable Care Act and the Supreme Court’s ruling that laws permitting gay marriage are constitutional, there has been a great deal of carrying on from […]

[June 26, 2013] Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori has issued the following on today’s United States Supreme Court rulings on DOMA and Proposition 8. The Episcopal Church is […]

[June 26, 2013]  The Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, President of the House of Deputies of The Episcopal Church, issued this statement in response to the United States Supreme Court’s rulings […]

[Episcopal News Service] Every week in north Paris, a few hundred Iraqi Christians gather for worship. It’s a bittersweet reunion for them. Their lives have been spared, but the events […]

[June 19, 2013] For 2013 World Refugee Day on June 20, Episcopal Church  Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson […]

Here’s the dilemma; the puzzle that I’d like you to think about. How do we justify, to ourselves, to immigrants, to our God, the compromises that will be necessary to […]