Episcopal congregations and dioceses across California are tending to damaged church buildings and helping their communities recover from deadly rainstorms that have caused flooding, mudslides and power outages, report David Paulsen and Egan Millard for Episcopal News Service.
Egan Millard of ENS writes that dioceses and parishes across the Episcopal Church will honor the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on the holiday weekend of his birthday, Jan. 14-16, with services and other events, in-person and online.
Alfred Molina of Religion News Service writes that on a rainy night in St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral in Los Angeles, Carol Potter offered a prayer for those who died two years ago in the violent storming of the U.S. Capitol.
The story appears only in the Gospel of Matthew.
The hymn was composed by the Rev. John Newton in the days leading to his New Year’s Day service on Jan. 1, 1773.
The presiding bishop said that “as followers of Jesus, we know that death does not have the final word.”
Episcopalians are invited to celebrate Episcopal religious orders and communities during the first observance of Religious Life Sunday, Jan. 22.
Pamela A. Lewis reviews “Medieval Treasures from the Glencairn Museum” at the Philadelphia Museum.
The current exhibit at the online Episcopal Church and Visual Arts explores each participant’s response to being called to be an artist, learning to accept that call, then moving forward with doubts, uncertainties, questions and finally, experiencing revelation or epiphany.