The Living Church – National, USA
Three dioceses recently announced the candidates in their upcoming bishop elections: Iowa, Nevada, and Pittsburgh. One detail jumps out from a glance at the slates: Nine of the 12 candidates are women.
(It was nine out of 10 before two male candidates were nominated by petition in Pittsburgh. There were no petition candidates in the other dioceses.)
The nominations continue a trend toward female bishops that has been accelerating in recent years. […]
Bristol Herald Courier – Abingdon, VA
Schéry Collins has attended St. Thomas Episcopal Church for nearly five decades. Her seat, the best in the house, is at the organ, the silver pipes of the instrument standing behind her like guarding sentinels. From her vantage point at the three-tiered keyboard of the church’s 41-year-old pipe organ, she’s provided the soundtrack for weddings, funerals and thousands of sermons.
Then came the COVID-19 pandemic and everything changed. […]
WFLX TV – Tulsa, OK
Hundreds gathered Monday for an interfaith service dedicating a prayer wall outside historic Vernon African Methodist Episcopal Church in Tulsa’s Greenwood neighborhood on the centennial of the first day of one of the deadliest racist massacres in the nation.
National civil rights leaders, including the Revs. Jesse Jackson and William Barber, joined multiple local faith leaders offering prayers and remarks outside the church that was under construction and largely destroyed when a white mob descended on the prosperous Black neighborhood in 1921, burning, killing, looting and leveling a 35-square-block area. Estimates of the death toll range from dozens to 300.
Barber, a civil and economic rights activist, said he was “humbled even to stand on this holy ground.”
“You can kill the people but you cannot kill the voice of the blood.” […]
