Founding Executive Director of the Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing Dr. Catherine Meeks keeps a busy travel schedule educating audiences worldwide on the best practices for healing racial divides. Now Dr. Meeks is racking up more travel miles receiving honorary degrees, awards, and recognitions for her decades of work.
The Revs. Trey Phillips and Matt Babcock are among 22 professional and faith leaders selected from more than 900 who applied for the two-year international Trinity Leadership Fellows program.
New Episcopal Hispanic congregations in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta held their first services the last weekend of April. The gatherings were “a dream come true,” said Diocese of Atlanta Missioner for Hispanic Ministries The Rev. Irma Nohemi Guerra.
Over two episodes of her podcast, A Brave Space, Dr. Catherine Meeks explores the topic of belonging with special guest, author, and co-host of CBS Sunday Morning, Michelle Miller.
Travelers from The Diocese of Atlanta recently returned from a journey of discovery, where they got to know the people and history of Ghana’s Cape Coast. Bishop Rob Wright said annual pilgrimages began in 2017 as part of Atlanta’s companion relationship with the Anglican Diocese of Cape Coast.
The Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta’s Camp Mikell has been included in this year’s Newsweek list of the 500 best summer camps. Moreover, Camp Mikell is singled out by Newsweek as one of the eight best camps in Georgia.
A new documentary video about lost African American communities, created with support from The Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing, documents the effect of displacement upon African Americans in Atlanta.
On Palm Sunday, Christ Church Episcopal in Norcross held its first bilingual Palm Sunday service. For The Rev. Irma (Mimi) Guerra the day marked an important milestone.
The Rev. Canon C. John Thompson-Quartey and The Rev. Dr. Stuart Higginbotham will join Candler in fall 2023, Thompson-Quartey as director of the program and professor in the practice of church leadership, and Higginbotham as assistant professor in the practice of spiritual formation and ministry, arranging and supervising contextual education for Episcopal and Anglican students.
The March 22 Clergy Day was the final scheduled event in Atlanta by Curry as Presiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church before his nine-year term concludes on November 1, 2024.