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  • Using Technology to Increase Participation
    As committee chair, I take pride in our diversity. The New York Intern Program’s communications committee “meets” on a monthly basis and includes A mother clanging pots and pans while preparing dinner for her young children Exhaust…
  • Voices of Transformation and Renewal
    I am attending the Transformation and Renewal Conference at Kanuga Conference Centers in North Carolina. Co-sponsored by the Office of Black Ministries, the Union of Black Episcopalians, and Kanuga Conference Centers, this year's gathering focuses on…
  • There's a Saint for That
    Okay. I confess. All Saints Day in The Episcopal Church has always struck me as a bit bland. Sure I know the official line: that All Saints Day is when we honor the martyrs, preachers, teachers and everyday witnesses whose examples we seek to foll…
  • The Spanglish Congregation
    NPR is currently doing an excellent series on how Latinos, the U.S.’ largest minority group, is “making their mark on religion, technology, education, Hollywood and the workplace.” There are many good stories in this series, but I believe tw…
  • Taking it to the Streets
    Members of another urban congregation are picketing the second service of St. John’s in Columbus, Ohio. The service is Street Church, where for the past five years, the Rev. Lee Anne Reat presides over a full Eucharist on a street corner in…
  • The Story that Lives
    Did you sense it? This past weekend marked the end of an era. I admit I didn’t notice at first. But as I sat around the kitchen table with our convent/farm interns last Thursday night, I began to realize that the release of Harry Potter and the D…
  • Por qué Alberto Cutié importa
    An English version of this blog post can be found here.  El nuevo show de charla durante el día del Padre Alberto Cutié debutó ayer. ¿Lo vieron? El debut de “Padre Alberto (Father Albert)" generó conversación en la página Episcop…
  • Why Alberto Cutié Matters
    Una traducción de este blog post es disponible aquí.  Fr. Alberto Cutié’s new daytime talk show premiered yesterday. Did you watch? The premier of "Father Albert" generated a bit of conversation on the Episcopal Café’s Facebook page…
  • Struggling to Become a Multicultural Church
    A number of ECF Vital Practices readers have recently requested resources on how predominantly white, English-speaking congregations can become more multicultural. I believe that the above video may serve …
  • Is This Some Kind of Joke?
    An Asian-American, Native-American, African-American, two white women and I, all Episcopalian, walked into a bar. What is this, some kind of joke? No, just the end of our Lenten series at our church. We spent Lent exploring the connection …
  • Room 306: A Prophet Then and Now
    We turn the corner and walk into a photograph. All of my life, I've seen grainy photos of the Lorraine Motel, men hunched over, weeping, as Martin Luther King Jr. dies on the concrete. Today the motel in Memphis houses part of the Civil Rights …
  • Sharing Love Stories
    Most of the time, building community happens in the background. But every once in a while, the connections are so tangible, the relationship building so apparent, that it’s as if the Holy Spirit employed bricklayers and brought the mortar.  Fo…
  • Finding Room at the Inn
    “May I borrow some water?” Nine years ago, JT knocked on the back door of Christ Episcopal Church in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, a five-gallon jug in hand. JT lived in a HUD apartment next to the church; the city had turned off his water and …
  • Making Room This Christmas
    Most of the time, there’s no room for a man-child like Brandon. He’s been asked to leave two churches. He’s 34 but with the mind of a 6-year-old. He can only see a glimmer of light out of the corner of one eye.  His mother died this…
  • Covenants
    This past Sunday I trooped up to St. Mary’s Manhattanville in Harlem, New York to facilitate a conversation about the Anglican Covenant. But before this discussion ever took place, I found myself regretting that I’d ever agreed to do this.
  • Back from Nuevo Amanecer
    I’m writing this blog post on my flight back from the Nuevo Amanecer Conference, an event I attended on behalf of the Episcopal Church Foundation. This conference is a once-in-two year gathering for those who are involved in Latino ministry. Atte…
  • Leadership in the Feligresía
    This past weekend the Episcopal Church Foundation visited the northern part of the Diocese of Puerto Rico. We were there at the invitation of Bishop David Álvarez and Fr. Juan Monge with the goal of presenting just about everything we possibly cou…
  • Receiving the Full Menu
    Every day if I need or want to leave my house, I do. Other than deciding which mode of transportation best suits my plans, I go. No one gives me permission, or denies me access, to drive my car or board a train, bus, subway, or plane. I take th…