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The Standing Commission on Structure, Governance, Constitution and Canons meets in October 2023 in suburban Baltimore, Maryland. Photo: Frank Logue [Episcopal News Service] More than 1,500 people have applied to serve on The Episcopal Church’s interim bodies – the commissions, task forces, boards and other committees that conduct the work of the church between meetings…

[Episcopal News Service] Los Angeles Bishop John Harvey Taylor on Aug. 13 announced the timeline for the election and consecration of his successor over the next two years, with an election planned for November 2025 and a service of ordination, consecration “and passing of the crozier” on July 11, 2026. He then will remain as a…

[Scottish Episcopal Church]  The Rev. Diana Hall, rector of St. Anne’s Scottish Episcopal and Methodist Church in Dunbar, has been training for more than seven months for the Great Norse Run  — a 10-day, coast-to-coast run across Iceland. The 209-mile run will include crossing half a dozen rivers, four days of seeing nothing but volcanic sand,…

[World Council of Churches] A working group of the World Council of Churches’ Commission of the Churches on Health and Healing has released a message, “A call for cross-generational action on the Mental Health of Youth.” The WCC observed Aug. 12 as an Ecumenical International Youth Day with the theme “Journey of Justice, Peace and…

[Church of England] A new pilot plan from the Church of England is helping churches double their money for carbon-cutting projects. Give To Go Green is a match-funding pilot from the Church of England’s Net Zero Program, working with churches to double locally raised donations, to help pay for carbon reducing projects. The scheme was…

Editor’s note: The cathedral was badly damaged by an earthquake in 2011. [Anglican Taonga] The Diocese of Christchurch received news on Aug. 9 that the country’s coalition government has chosen not to fund the roughly $36 million U.S. restoration shortfall for the city’s historic cathedral. The chair of Christ Church Cathedral Reinstatement Limited, Mark Stewart,…

Volunteers help excavate an area next to Christ Church, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, to find more artifacts that provide a look into the owner of a house on the land in the early 1800s — who they now believe to be George Davis, a Black man who had considerable wealth in that era. Photo: Alice…

A musical based on the book Just Ask!, written by Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, had its first workshop in early August at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Kansas City, Missouri. The musical will be staged at Kansas City’s Coterie Theatre in 2025. Photo: Coterie Theatre website [Episcopal News Service] Supreme Court Associate Justice…

[World Council of Churches] On Aug. 7, a delegation from the World Council of Churches, accompanied by partners from the Middle East Council of Churches, ACT Alliance and Caritas Internationalis, heard the witness of some of those for whom the war has become a daily reality. The conversation formed part of a solidarity visit to…

[The Church of England] In response to riots and other violence taking place across the United Kingdom that have been fueled by misinformation online, the far-right and anti-immigration sentiment, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby joined other faith leaders in writing a letter to The Times praising those who volunteered to repair damage caused by rioters…