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Peach Street Farmers Market: Organic Food, Organic Growth, and A Resilient Response to COVID
The Peach Street Farmer’s Market started with an idea from members of Holy Comforter Episcopal Church in Angleton to provide an opportunity for small businesses to get their start and to connect their community with healthy, locally-grown food. Even as organizers spent two years preparing to launch the market in August of 2017, they had…
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The 2020 Election
The 2020 General Election offers the ideal opportunity for churches to be of service to both your congregations and to the community in a variety of ways. Anglicans and Episcopalians have a long history of involvement in elections.
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Heartfelt Thank You to the Rev. Dean Calcote
There are so many unsung heroes in a diocese like ours, men and women who strengthen our witness to the Gospel with consistent, competent behind-the-scenes work. We are writing you today to recognize one such extraordinary individual
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Moving Forward in Truth: When the Church Remains Silent
When the Church remains silent What voice shall testify How shall it answer the needy’s cry Refute the world’s lie Truth, verify The God of our salvation glorify?
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Christ Church Cathedral Wins Polly Bond Best Campaign for Third Year
For the third time (second year in a row), Christ Church Cathedral has won Best Campaign at the annual Episcopal Communicators national awards – this year for Rally Against Hunger.
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Phishing and Fraudulent Emails
Over the past few weeks we have experienced a significant increase in the number of phishing email messages that impersonate a diocesan staff member, especially Bishop Doyle. Phishing attacks are on the rise and are getting more sophisticated.
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10 Deacons Ordained at Christ Church Cathedral in A Virtual Ceremony, August 1
Following a rescheduled ceremony due to the rising COVID-19 cases in Harris County, 10 new deacons were ordained at Christ Church Cathedral, Houston, Saturday, August 1. The event was live-streamed and closed to the public.
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How FIND – School for Spirituality Direction and Formation Has Coped with COVID-19
Three months shy of their graduation, the Class of 2020 for FIND ‚Äö√Ñ√¨ School for Spiritual Direction and Formation was in the final preparation for a Lenten Day of Prayer. It’s a much-looked-forward-to event in which the graduating class fashions a retreat around what they’ve learned in the three-year school and presents it for the…
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Moving Forward in Truth: Letters in Exchange
Ever since my husband shared them with me, I have been fascinated with some old letters that he let me read. The letters written in 1935 and 1936, now nearly a century ago, were exchanged between Bishop Clinton S. Quin, the 3rd Bishop of Texas and my father-in-law, The Rev. John E. Culmer, who at…
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Back to School During a Pandemic
I am an adolescent medicine specialist and I take care of teenagers with a variety of problems. Over the last few months I have seen teens struggle with the lack of structure that school attendance provides.
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On the Front Lines During COVID-19
I am an ICU physician working on the “front lines” during this health crisis. Although I am accustomed to dealing with critically ill people, the current pandemic has presented a new set of challenges that has shaken and redefined the health care community.
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Waco Church Honors Civil Rights Leader John Lewis
The St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Waco honored late civil rights leader John Lewis with a symbolic bell ringing.
