The diocesan home for boys lost a building, while several churches were pumping floodwaters out of their buildings.

At the It’s All About Love festival, House of Deputies President Julia Ayala Harris described the gathering as an opportunity to reflect on stories and to begin to reframe what those stories tell Episcopalians about the fight for climate justice, racial reconciliation and evangelism.

“Let love help you heal old wounds; let love lead and you’ll find life as God intended because love is God’s GPS,” Curry said, writes Shireen Korkzan for ENS.

The service included remarks by Ukraine’s ambassador to the United States and participation of Ukrainian clergy, singers and readers.

Hundreds of teenagers, adult chaperones and bishops traveled to College Park, Md., for a week of fellowship, learning and worship.

One aspect of New York’s changing religious landscape is that the number of evangelical congregations are on the rise.

The consent process for the ordination of the Rev. Charlie Holt as diocesan bishop concludes at the end of July.

The presiding bishop plans to preach at the Episcopal Youth Event and the It’s All About Love festival.

A Diocese of Arkansas spokesman told ENS that the church sustained extensive smoke and water damage and the organ was a total loss, though a fire marshal is optimistic that the building can be restored.

The migrants, all adults ages 20 to 40 and mostly from Venezuela, Colombia and Guatemala, were approached in El Paso, Texas, where some had been working, with the promise of housing and jobs if they agreed to go to California.