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Jan 15, 2025 | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Melodie Woerman
[Episcopal News Service] This weekend Episcopal dioceses and congregations nationwide will honor the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at a variety of services and special events. While the civil rights leader would have turned 96 on Jan. 15, activities will take place around the official federal holiday commemorating King on the third Monday in January, which this year is Jan. 20, and coincides with Inauguration Day.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Melodie Woerman
[Episcopal News Service] On Jan. 7, the man who set the fire that destroyed St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Douglas, Arizona, was sentenced to 36.5 years in prison. Eric Ridenour, 60, was convicted in July 2024 by a federal jury on six counts relating to the May 22, 2023, fires that also heavily damaged the neighboring First Presbyterian Church.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Melodie Woerman |Episcopal Diocese
[Episcopal News Service] A congregation that wants to be engaged in creation care has many things it can do – pollinator gardens, solar panels, energy audits, legislative advocacy, recycling, composting – but the Rev. Rachel Field says that having so many options can make it hard, if not impossible, for a church to find the approach that is best for it.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Shireen Korkzan |Melodie Woerman
[Episcopal News Service] Episcopalians gathered in locations across the church Nov. 2 to watch the livestream of the investiture of the 28th presiding bishop, the Most Rev. Sean Rowe. The limited-seating service took place at the Chapel of Christ the Lord in The Episcopal Church’s denominational headquarters in New York. The scaled down investiture was partly motivated by an interest in reducing the service’s carbon footprint while increasing opportunities for churchwide virtual participation.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Melodie Woerman |Christ Church Charlotte
Seminary, parish, five dioceses each receive more than $1 million in Lilly Endowment grants [Episcopal News Service] Five Episcopal dioceses, a parish and a seminary have received grants of more than $1 million each through the Lilly Endowment Nurturing Children Through Worship and Prayer Initiative. This initiative is aimed at supporting creative endeavors that help children, especially those up to age 12, come to know and love God and grow in faith, according to its website. The Episcopal...
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Melodie Woerman |Christ Church Charlotte
[Episcopal News Service] More than two dozen Episcopal churches, large and small, across the United States are hosting pumpkin patches in October. Pumpkins cover church lawns not only to provide a place where parishioners and others can purchase the orange gourds for fall decorating or Halloween jack-o’-lanterns but also where their communities can come together for some fall fun. One of those is St. Mark’s in Burlington, Massachusetts, a town of about 25,000 located northwest of Boston.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Melodie Woerman |Christ Church Charlotte
[Episcopal News Service] Indigenous Peoples Day this year is Oct. 14, and a number of states, cities and other entities – including The Episcopal Church – celebrate it instead of the federal holiday of Columbus Day. In 2022, General Convention urged all Episcopal entities to refer to Columbus Day as Indigenous Peoples Day. It also urged all dioceses, parishes, missions and other entities to designate a day honoring Indigenous and Native American siblings.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Melodie Woerman |Christ Church Charlotte
[Episcopal News Service] As power is being restored across the Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina, the Cathedral of All Souls in Asheville, North Carolina, has begun its cleanup after Hurricane Helene. Photos posted to its Facebook page show cushions and prayer books stacked outside, rooms filled with items tossed asunder by floodwaters, and massive plastic tubes running throughout the building to help dry things out, even as mold remains a significant problem.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Melodie Woerman |Episcopal Relief
[Episcopal News Service] Hope Episcopal Church in Manheim, Pennsylvania, has received a $46,000 grant that will help it clean up water runoff on its property that eventually feeds into Chesapeake Bay, the nation’s largest estuary. Stormwater runoff is the fastest growing source of pollution in the bay and occurs when water doesn’t evaporate or soak into the ground but instead runs across the land surface and into the nearest waterway, taking with it nitrogen that had been applied as fertilizer.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
episcopalnewsservice.org | Melodie Woerman
[Episcopal News Service] As Hurricane Helene, a powerful Category 4 storm with winds of up to 140 miles per hour, moved from the Big Bend region of the Florida Panhandle late on Sept. 26 into the hills of Appalachia two days later, Episcopal churches and entities suffered damage that ranges from minor to major. In the Episcopal Diocese of Western North Carolina, however, that damage has been catastrophic; over two feet of rain fell in the area, sending floodwater across the region.
