All Saints Episcopal Church in East Lansing, Mich., is engaging in a range of justice efforts as part of a racial reparations plan. Photo/All Saints via Facebook

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Michigan congregation donates $130,000 from sale of rectory to racial reparations effort

Gift will benefit Justice League of Greater Lansing Michigan’s reparations endowment, supporting Black homeownership, startups by Black entrepreneurs and student scholarships.

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The Chicago Cubs play at Wrigley Field. Photo/Rick Dikeman via Wikimedia Commons

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Baseball, leisure and the liturgy

Mark Michael muses on the changed nature of baseball, reflects on liturgy and wonders if “the fans” are always right.

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Can chatbots write inspirational and wise sermons?

When several hundred Lutherans in Bavaria, Germany, attended a service designed by ChatGPT, the program composed a sermon, delivered by an avatar on a big screen.

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Children from Friendship Elementary School in Buford learn about composting, ecology, and the seasons of life during a field trip to the Grow2B garden. Photo/courtesy of Diocese of Atlanta

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Grow2B community garden raising funds to fight food insecurity

The garden was founded by members of St. Mary and Martha of Bethany Episcopal Church in Buford, Ga.

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Every year on July 1, Torres Strait Island churches mark a “Coming of the Light” ceremony. Photo/Brad Chapman/ABM

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Making mission a two-way reality with indigenous people

The Anglican Board of Mission in Australia views mission as reciprocal, writes Robyn Douglass in The Living Church.

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Gods in the machine? The rise of artificial intelligence may result in new religions

For all its dangers, AI-based religion has the potential to make the world a better, richer place, writes Neil McArthur at The Conversation.

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Parishioners at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Waldorf, Md., participated in PrEP 4 Pride, the first Pride festival hosted in Charles County. Photo/St. Paul’s Episcopal Church via Facebook

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Southern Maryland Episcopalians study gender and sexuality as nationwide dialogue on LGBTQ+ identity expands

Episcopal churches are working to help their parishioners understand evolving language around gender and sexuality identities to become better LGBTQ+ allies as anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric rises across the United States, Episcopal News Service reports.

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Dorothy Wells

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A reflection on Juneteenth: the remembrance of humankind’s opposition to freedom and justice

Dorothy Wells writes that Juneteenth is significant, but slavery and its legacy are persistent.

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