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31 Dec 2022, 1:00 am by David Pocklington
However, the chairs had already been installed, the petitioners having felt under pressure to install them before an episcopal visit to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the consecration of the church; less convincingly, the petitioners alleged they had relied upon the DAC’s Notification of Advice despite the inclusion of the statement (in bold type) “This advice does not constitute authority for carrying out the works or proposals and a faculty is required” [3].… [read post]
20 Dec 2022, 11:18 am by David Pocklington
The declaration, drawn up in 2014 ahead of legislation paving the way for the consecration of women as bishops, sets out the arrangements for parishes that seek the priestly or episcopal ministry of men on grounds of theological conviction. [read post]
13 Nov 2022, 12:16 am by Frank Cranmer
Further to his post on appointments to the episcopate in the Roman Catholic Church summarized in last week’s round-up, Philip Jones has posted Does a Bishop need to be Enthroned? [read post]
6 Nov 2022, 1:09 am by Frank Cranmer
Appointments to the episcopate in the Roman Catholic Church On 2 November 2022, in his blog Ecclesiastical Law, Philip Jones posted An Apostolic Succession for which the recent elevation of a Roman Catholic to the episcopate, presumably Canon Peter Collins, “provides a useful case study of the Roman Catholic law and the equivalent English law concerning the appointment of bishops. [read post]
20 Sep 2022, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
Image courtesy of Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church, Richard Allen Museum and Archives, Photograph Collection, Philadelphia, PA. [read post]
17 Sep 2022, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
[This historically Black junior college was founded by the African Methodist Episcopal Church and is now called Shorter College.] [read post]
14 Aug 2022, 1:26 am by Frank Cranmer
It is expected that a meeting of the Episcopal Synod will be arranged as soon as possible. [read post]
6 Aug 2022, 11:55 pm by Frank Cranmer
Charles Wide, The Critic: How the Church blew it on race: comment on Rustat, Archbishops’ Racial Justice Commission &c, which opines, “a secretive Church of England commission is intent on seeing bigotry everywhere”. [read post]
5 Aug 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
Sanford Levinson This post was prepared for a roundtable on Wrestling with Religious Diversity, convened as part of LevinsonFest 2022. [read post]
3 Aug 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  We are of course nearing a religious homogeneity on the Supreme Court, one that would be shocking to the Founding generation and that is not representative of our current populace: six Roman Catholic Justices (including Justice Sotomayor, who describes herself as a “lapsed Catholic”[5]); and a seventh who was Roman Catholic, who now attends an Episcopal church, who has not said whether he still considers himself to be Catholic, and whose Oxford doctoral thesis… [read post]
1 Aug 2022, 12:30 am by David Pocklington
The members of the Parochial Church Council are those charged with responsibility for the financial affairs of the Church. [read post]
31 Jul 2022, 4:13 am by Frank Cranmer
The Order transfers episcopal responsibility for Jersey from the Bishop and Diocese of Winchester to the Bishop and Diocese of Salisbury. [read post]
28 Jul 2022, 1:08 am by David Pocklington
Scottish Episcopal Church: A Statement from the College of Bishops – Preparing for the Lambeth Conference. (22 July 2022). [read post]
19 Jun 2022, 7:43 am by Just Security
Editors’ note: Juneteenth, the United States’ newest federal holiday, is a holiday originated by Black Americans, beginning in Galveston, Texas, to mark the anniversary of the June 19, 1865, General Order No. 3, which announced that all formerly enslaved people in Texas (the last state in the Confederacy with institutionalized slavery) were free. [read post]
5 Jun 2022, 8:04 pm by Tom Smith
The school was founded in 1892 as part of Colorado Seminary (now the University of Denver) by Episcopal Methodists and became its own institution in 1903. [read post]
20 May 2022, 5:27 am by David Pocklington
§ Church in Scotland advice Moving forward as a congregation was last updated on 2 May 2022; the Coronavirus updates and resources of the Scottish Episcopal Church were updated on 1 April 2022. [read post]
This is part of a growing trend in the U.S. that includes the 2015 murder of  worshippers at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. by a professed white supremist, the 2018 shooting at the Tree of Life Congregation Pittsburgh synagogue, the 2019 Walmart shooting targeting LatinX residents of El Paso, Texas, and the 2021 shooting in an Atlanta, Georgia spa targeting Asian Americans. [read post]