EHF’s new interactive mapping tool shows there can be more than a 20-year difference in how long Texans live in one neighborhood compared to another, even though they may only be a few miles apart. The new tool highlights how poverty, income, race, and education levels have a dramatic impact on how long a person lives in Texas.
Not long before retiring from the Texas Civil Rights Project and beginning a trajectory toward ordained ministry, I was a panelist at a Concerned Philosophers for Peace conference at Austin Community College. The theme was setting standards for peace in public life.
The House of Bishops wrapped up its fall meeting here on Sept. 20 after spending four days studying, discussing and, in some cases, acting on many of the most important issues facing The Episcopal Church.
As the first week of the new school year came to a close on Aug. 30, the Rev. Todd FitzGerald, school chaplain at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School, held a special Upper School Chapel service to install and recognize the 2019‚Äö√Ñ√≠20 Chapel leadership team.
For several years, Saint Isidore Episcopal Church has found its home wherever it could, growing its community in homes, gyms, even Taco Bells. Now, while the roving spirit of the church will remain, it will finally have a place to bring those communities together when it opens The Harvest Kitchen in Spring.
The Rev. Mark Wilkinson became rector at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Katy this summer.
The Episcopal Church is one of the whitest Christian denominations in America. White Episcopalians make up 90 percent of church membership, according to the Pew Research Center, compared to a U.S. population that is 62 percent white.
When Archdeacon Keith Cartwright, archdeacon of the southern Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands, visited Haiti in the wake of the 2010 earthquake, he thought he would never see anything close to that level of devastation again. But now, surveying the damage in his own diocese in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, he sees that catastrophe mirrored. “Everything has been decimated,” he says.
This Thursday is Austinites’ chance to take part in a very special event with some big names in the poetry world.
Virginia Theological Seminary took what appears to be an unprecedented step this week by announcing that it had set aside $1.7 million for a slavery reparations fund – something considered but not yet enacted by other institutions of higher education that historically benefited from slave labor.
Hope Episcopal Church is moving forward and taking its place in the neighborhood.
The story of Harvey flooding in a rural area like Wharton County doesn’t include the numbers of households impacted, and the billions of dollars of damage like in Harris County. But just 60 miles away from Houston, the people of Wharton County still share the same suffering of waiting for help, and the fear of being forgotten. St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Wharton has been the hands and heart of Christ to some of the waiting ones.
Celebrating 175 years of mission in Christ, we are a diverse community of believers following the Episcopal tradition across our 81-county diocese spanning nearly 70,000 square miles in the central, eastern, and northern regions of Texas. Founded in 1838, we are more than 450 active clergy-strong with 175 congregations, over 100 missional communities, 20 campus missions, chaplaincies, foundations, institutions, and over 72,000 parishioners.
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