Preview: Everything you need to follow the 81st General Convention as it convenes in Louisville

[Scottish Episcopal Church] Newcomers to the Scottish Episcopal Church and members of staff from the General Synod Office got together this month at Provincial Welcome Day in Edinburgh, to learn more about the church and how it operates, and to make useful contacts with others. Each year, invitations are extended to the newly ordained; those…

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Kevin Laskowski will always have the distinction of being a “Jeopardy!” champion, after winning three times on the quiz show in November, but on Jan. 31 he felt short of adding tournament champion to his resume. Laskowski, the priest-in-charge at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Centreville, Virginia, appeared in the…

[World Council of Churches] World Council of Churches general secretary the Rev. Jerry Pillay expressed deep alarm and grief over the deadly attack on Gaza carried out by Israeli forces March 17-18, killing more than 400 people, as well as airstrikes by the United States in Yemen. “We unequivocally condemn this unnecessary re-escalation of violence,…

Alejandra Perez, center, a Colombian asylum-seeker, waits in November 2023 for a train after leaving a church where she received donated clothes for herself and her children in Chicago, Illinois. Photo: Reuters [Episcopal News Service] The 81st General Convention is considering at least three similar resolutions that would commit The Episcopal Church to supporting a…

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Demonstrators line up outside the ballroom where the House of Bishops was to convene its afternoon session June 24 at the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville. Photo: Janet Kawamoto/Episcopal News Service [Episcopal News Service – Louisville, Kentucky] Some 15 Episcopalians – lay and ordained – mostly representing the group Palestinian Anglicans and Clergy Allies…