A Lay Preacher Answers the Call to Do BIG Things
Musings | January 15, 2022
The email that invited me to preach appeared in my inbox on September 15th. Like numerous other emails, the subject was convention planning; and the email was from the Standing…
Inspirations
The Voice of the Deacon
The Voice of the Deacon |
The role of a deacon in The Episcopal Church (TEC) is not always understood. To help clarify this for our readers, we talked with Tracie Middleton, President of the Association…
Church Trends: Bi-Vocational Ministry
Musings |
The traditional picture of a parish organization led by a fully salaried priest and perhaps one or more assistants is increasingly less common in today’s Episcopal Church. Reduced budgets caused…
The Many Preaching Languages in The Episcopal Church
Musings |
It is an exciting fact that the big tent of the Episcopal Church in the USA embraces many congregations in which English is far from the first language. In some,…
The Beatitudes through the Ages
Book Reviews |
The Beatitudes, I wrote in Preaching Truth in the Age of Alternative Facts (Abingdon Press, 2018), has become a political document. Nothing like “Blessed are the poor in spirit” to…
Turn the World Upside Down!
Inspirations & Thoughts |
A Message from the Presiding Bishop In the seventeenth chapter of the book of Acts, a leader in the city of Thessalonika, on hearing that the apostle Paul and his…
Zoom conferences move into the mainstream for the Episcopal Preaching Foundation
Press Release | June 21, 2021
What a difference a year makes! For more than 32 years the Episcopal Preaching Foundation (EPF) has delivered its Preaching Excellence Programs (PEP) to seminarians, postulants and ordained clergy via face-to-face gatherings. Now,…
Trinity Church Wall Street Awarded The Episcopal Preaching Foundation For Their Lay Preaching Training Initiative
News | December 16, 2020
Episcopal Preaching Foundation receives Trinity Church Wall Street grant to fund lay preaching initiative Trinity Church Wall Street team has awarded $100,000 to the Episcopal Preaching Foundation for the first of what…
Preaching In The Era of a Pandemic
News | December 4, 2020
Recent news reports in both the secular and religious media describe clergy as tired, challenged and over-stretched by an unfamiliar environment and a forced, unrelenting, and steep learning curve due…
Preaching in the Era of COVID-19: Hitting the Ground Running
Conferences News | October 6, 2020
The Episcopal Preaching Foundation has opened registration to practicing parish clergy for a Zoom-based Preaching Excellence Program (“PEP-II”) deep dive into preaching in the era of COVID-19. The schedule will…