Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, the Seamen’s Church Institute (SCI) asks knitters to help increase awareness of mariners’ contributions by making—and hiding in plain sight—mini mariners’ watchcaps. The hats draw attention to the fact that mariners...

[Episcopal News Service] Now, there’s a way to do Sunday school the rest of the week.   In Poughkeepsie, New York, for example, Christ Church’s online “Soul School” offers parishioners a way to brush up on all things Episcopal without ever leaving their...

The Task Force for Re-Imagining the Episcopal Church (TREC) has posted its Engagement Kit and invites input and comments from Episcopalians. The Engagement Kit is located here. TREC member the Rev. Craig Loya explained, “This process is designed to continue to engage the church at all...

[Episcopal News Service] It all started with a sandwich.   Karen Olson was working for Warner Lambert and had taken one of her frequent trips into New York for a lunch meeting when she encountered a homeless woman sitting outside Grand Central Station.   “In the early...

The September issue of The Frontier News, the Diocese of Peshawar's newsletter, features several accounts of the massacre bombing of All Saints' Church in Peshawar, Pakistan.   "All of a sudden, two suicide bombers attacked, and blew themselves almost simultaneously, with a gap of 5-6...

[Titus on Mission] In a conversation from Peshawar today, Bishop Humphrey Sarfaraz Peters of the Diocese of Peshawar said that the confirmed death toll from the bombing at All Saints’ Church on Sept. 22 in the old section of the city stands at 127, with 170...

The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has drawn attention to the fact that Christians in Peshawar spoke of forgiveness even as they were 'crying out' for justice after Sunday's suicide bombings.   People in Peshawar spoke of forgiveness immediately after Sunday's attack at All...

One afternoon, as we drank chai tea, Bishop Mano received word from his diocesan office manager that there had been a suicide bombing in Peshawar. When he hung up his cell phone, Mano turned to me and said, “This is the first one in Peshawar, and I am afraid, my friend, it is only the beginning.”