Diocesan Author Receives Award
Dr. April Love-Fordham, parishioner at St. David, was awarded the 2019 Readers’ Favorite Silver Medal for Christian Study for her book James in the Suburb: A Disorderly Parable of the Epistle of James. Love-Fordham is available to speak or teach at your church...Gainesville’s Grace Episcopal Recognized with International Website Design Award
On Oct. 1, Grace’s website received a silver medal from the Academy of On Oct. 1, Grace’s website received a silver medal from the Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts’ 14th Annual W3 Awards, which annually honors outstanding websites, web marketing, web video,...
Joy
When the Bible and prayer book speak of worshipping joyfully or just joy, they agree that joy most fully happens in response to God. And, it most reliably occurs when we are being and offering our full selves. The backdrop for this can be silence, service, spoken word...Thanksgiving Volunteering in Our Diocese
Emmaus House’s Thanksgiving at Home For many years, through the initiative known as Thanksgiving at Home, Emmaus House has helped families in need to enjoy a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Emmaus House invites 300 families to sign up and receive all the supplies...
Opening
God wants to do a new thing, call it an opening. This is how God operates: Death into life. A slave revolt in Egypt. Our God makes a way out of no way. Many feel that life has become a gerbil wheel-exertion with little progress at great cost. God wants more for us and...Society of Saint John the Evangelist Produces Free, 5-Week Offering for Lent 2020
The Society Of Saint John the Evangelist’s free offering for Lent 2020 promises to be a poignant and deeply transformative offering. Signs of Life, Why Church Matters provides meditation, prayer, weekly videos, and faith formation activities for individual...
News from Day1: Bishop Knisely To Preach
The Rt. Rev. Nicholas Knisely, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island, previously served as a priest in Delaware, Western and Eastern Pennsylvania, and as dean of the cathedral in Phoenix, AZ. He earned undergraduate degrees in physics and astronomy at...
Stirred
James Bond likes his martinis “shaken, not stirred.” But, according to St. Paul, God likes God’s people stirred, not shaken. We are stirred by the fact that we’re partners with God in God’s righteous purposes. Stirred that we have been given the good news that God is...