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Church Pension Group issues report in advance of 81st General Convention
Members of the staff of the Church Pension Group were part of a June 14 webinar that marked the 15th anniversary of the Denominational Health Plan and the mandatory pension system for lay employees. [Episcopal News Service] On June 20 the Church Pension Group issued a report to General Convention in advance of its June…
Saint Augustine’s leaders remain hopeful, as university faces new threat to its accreditation
The campus of Saint Augustine’s University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Courtesy photo [Episcopal News Service] Saint Augustine’s University, the historically Black college with Episcopal roots in Raleigh, North Carolina, is again under threat of losing its accreditation after its accrediting agency voted recently to end the school’s membership. The university responded in a Dec. 10…
Ecumenical partnership gives San Diego-area teens inclusive space to be themselves
Pastor Wesley W. Ellis of the First Congregational Church in Ramona, California, left, joins members of the Ramona Youth Collaborative during a “Sundae Funday event.” The collaborative is an ecumenical program for teenagers operated by First Congregational Church and four other churches in Ramona: St. Mary’s-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church, Ramona United Methodist Church and Spirit of…
An Anglican bishop of the Arctic says goodbye
[Religion News Service] Outside, on the banks of a chilly river flowing into the blue-black waters of Hudson Bay, it was only 10 degrees. Inside St. Thomas Anglican Church, in the northern Canadian hamlet of Inukjuak, about 70 people were gathered – one of them an imposing, 6-foot-1 man with a thatch of white hair, a…
