St. Paul’s expected to serve approximately 120 to 140 families each distribution day. Instead, on Oct. 31 they served 205 families representing 525 people receiving fresh and packaged produce, protein, and canned goods, Mattison said.
The second Pumpkin Pickin’ Festival on Saturday aims to outdo last year’s event that raised about $25,000 for five church ministries. From 10 am to 6 pm, the parish on the corner of Newnan and North Coleman Streets will serve barbecue, live music, games, pumpkins and more.
Presiding Bishop Sean W. Rowe and over 200 clergy from the Diocese of Georgia and the Diocese of Atlanta gathered at Rock Eagle 4-H Center in Eatonton from September 22-24 with the goal “to be effective witnesses” in the footsteps of St. Matthew and Anna Ellison Butler Alexander (1865-1947), Patron Saint of the Diocese of Georgia and the only Black deaconess in The Episcopal Church. “We have a particular way of being, a particular way of seeing the world, and it's much more compelling than the gospel of dominion and domination that is out there as the prevalent Christian narrative now,” said...
What is the point of examining “things done and left undone” in places connected to an Episcopal church? Deep questions like this steered 50 parishioners at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in LaGrange to use maps and create a recent contemplative art installation depicting their parish’s role in the city’s geographical divides of wealth, race, and more. “To really know who we are now and where we are called to go, we have to first reckon with where we've been,” said The Rev. Andrew Gordon, St. Mark’s rector. “How is what we proclaim on Sundays lived out in each of our places and spaces Monday...
As white flight transformed southwest Atlanta, the church became mostly Black. Now one of its priests is demonstrating racial reconciliation through his own family story on CNN.
This Jesus isn’t the gentle, apolitical figure often presented in modern Christianity, but rather “a holistically spiritual freedom fighter” deeply concerned with poverty, exploitation, and injustice.
To build resilience, the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta recently welcomed eight people into a year-long education and support program, which, upon completion, earns them a Certificate in Lifelong Christian Formation.
Each month at a local coffee shop in Buford, people at St. Mary and St. Martha of Bethany Episcopal Church meet to talk about Christian moral ethics in the news and world. Then they act.
The Absalom Jones Episcopal Center for Racial Healing is seeking individuals to serve as Pilgrim Leaders for its Pilgrimage of Racial Healing program.
Three parishes have installed new priests so far this year — Winston Arthur at St. Paul’s in Newnan, Laura Masterson at St. Mary & St. Martha of Bethany in Buford, and Fabio Sotelo at St. Edward’s in Lawrenceville.
