Category: News

General Convention Resolution A168 News | September 8, 2022 Commemorate the Thirty-Fifth Anniversary of The Episcopal Preaching Foundation and its founder A. Gary Shilling Resolved, That the House of Deputies of the 80th General Convention commemorates the 35th Anniversary… Read More

EPF Granted Lilly Endowment Award News | September 7, 2022 In July, the EPF received a nearly $48,000 Phase 1 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. as part of their Compelling Preaching Initiative, to fund the development of a multiyear grant… Read More

EPF Preaching Awards News | January 15, 2022 The EPF’s Annual Preaching Award, with its cash prize of $1,000, is conferred on the student at each of the major Episcopal seminaries, who, in the judgment of the dean… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

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… Read More

Episcopal Preaching Foundation, Iona Center at Seminary of the Southwest announce video homiletics series Conferences News | September 15, 2020 The Episcopal Preaching Foundation and the Iona Center at Seminary of the Southwest announced today that they have partnered to produce a video-based homiletics curriculum for the Iona Collaborative, which provides a graduate-level, non-degree,… Read More

Episcopal Preaching Foundation transforms annual conference into innovative online experience News | June 4, 2020 Response to COVID-19 teaches those training for ordination about new world of digital worship In just two months, as the world responded to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Episcopal Preaching Foundation (EPF) transformed… Read More

Candler, Episcopal Preaching Foundation Partner for Preaching Course Conferences News | February 11, 2020 Before the official start of the spring 2020 semester, Candler’s January term (“J-term”) classes included a four-day intensive program on “Preaching in the Anglican Tradition,” offered in partnership with the Episcopal Preaching Foundation… Read More

Course: Preaching in the Anglican Tradition Conferences News | December 16, 2019 Preaching in the Anglican Tradition ATLANTA—The upcoming week of “J-term” classes in early January at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology will include a course taught by Episcopal clergy, including… Read More