Tradition

An email came in, a response back and then more emails went out from me. That’s how this reflection came to be in discussing the idea of traditions in the Church. The initial email invitation asked if someone f...

An early deaconess of the church The Episcopal Church first authorized the ordination of women to the priesthood and episcopate at the 1976 General Convention, but the women’s ordination movement in the Epi...

There is one question I ask myself in relation to tradition: Is it effective? Is it effective for the rector/vicar to run a vestry meeting? It is certainly our tradition. It is canonical. But is it effective? ...

Mitre A mitre is probably the piece of clothing most often associated with bishops. If you have seen a chess set, you'll know that even the chess pieces called bishops are topped off with mitres. Although ther...

You might be tempted to label St. John’s Street Church as just another outreach program for the poor. But simply calling it an outreach program doesn’t capture the essence of what is going on each week at the c...

In Anglicanism, and in the Episcopal Church, the cornerstones of our faith and sources of authority are scripture, tradition and reason. The balance between each of these three sources is often characterized as...

My first exposure to the Episcopal Church was in 1954 when I first moved to Lincoln Heights outside Cincinnati, along with my dad and two brothers. The city prided itself as being one of the few all black citie...

The Book of Common Prayer (BCP) is unquestionably a central part of our Anglican tradition. But why? It is worth looking at the three parts of the title of the book itself for some illumination: book, common, a...

On Oct. 16, 1940, the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies adopted an official flag for the Episcopal Church. This was the 251st anniversary of the day the General Convention ratified the Constitution and...