Cameron Dezen Hammon at St. Mark’s, Houston recorded her experience along the way. Her memoir will be released on Tuesday, the same day as a book launch at Brazos Bookstore, featuring a Q-and-A session with Hammon conducted by Lacy M. Johnson, associate professor of creative nonfiction at Rice University.
[Episcopal News Service ‚Äö√Ñ√¨ Montgomery, Alabama] The Episcopal Church’s Executive Council concluded its four-day meeting here Oct. 21 with a series of votes that included an endorsement of plans for a dramatic expansion of Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s Way of Love initiative, featuring plans for a major revival event in New York and a growing list of media projects.
October 2-4, the newly-named Baylor Collaborative on Hunger and Poverty hosted the Together at the Table Hunger and Poverty Summit in Waco. The group formerly known as the Texas Hunger Initiative (THI) hosted hundreds of participants from across Texas and the nation for a three-day learning event. EHF staff members and representatives from St. Philip’s-Hearne, Christ Church-Temple, St. James-Houston, Holy Comforter-Angleton (Peach Tree Farmer’s Market), and El Buen Samaritano of Austin all attended the event.
Over the past year, members of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Liberty and community partners have found common ground in their shared hope for a healthier city. The fruit of that work is their newly-formed nonprofit, the dWELLing.
On any given Sunday at 7:30 a.m., a visitor to Schlitte Boxing & Fitness may find two dozen or so men and women hitting punching bags, cranking out pushups, or congratulating one another after a particularly tough bench press. It’s not CrossFit. It’s Sunday morning worship at Warrior Church.
Nine EDOT formation leaders from San Mateo, Houston, St. Alban’s, Austin, St. Julien’s, Round Rock, St. Thomas, College Station, Palmer Memorial, Houston, Trinity, The Woodlands and St. Dunstan’s, Houston joined nine additional students from across the country at Camp Allen for a week of professional development.
AUSTIN, Texas ‚— John B. Goodenough, professor in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry ‚— jointly with Stanley Whittingham of the State University of New York at Binghamton and Akira Yoshino of Meijo University ‚— “for the development of lithium-ion batteries.”
It’s a scene familiar to many clergy: Someone walks into the church office wanting to speak to a priest, clearly in distress. Within a few minutes of conversation, it becomes clear that the person is suffering from a mental illness.
In partnership with the Texas Wounded Warriors foundation, students at All Saints Episcopal School in Tyler on Monday honored the men and women who have fought for our freedom.
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.
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