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Nine EDOT Formation Leaders Advance in their Formation Journey
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.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to John Goodenough of UT Austin & Member of St. Matthew’s, Ausitn
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…
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St. Martin’s, Houston Mental Health Ministry Serves 800 People a Week for Free
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.
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All Saints Episcopal School Honors Wounded Warriors
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.
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NEW MAP: What your neighborhood says about your life expectancy
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…
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Being an Activist and Spiritual Often Go Together
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.
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House of Bishops’ Fall meeting Grapples with Range of Issues, from Reconciliation to Innovation
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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St. Stephen’s Installs Chapel Leadership Team
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.
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Saint Isidore, The Woodlands to Open New Food Pantry in Spring
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.
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Sunday Conversation: St. Paul’s Episcopal has a new rector
The Rev. Mark Wilkinson became rector at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Katy this summer.
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Racial Audit of Church Leadership Seen as Step Toward Ensuring Episcopal Culture of Welcome
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.
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Anglicans Respond to Hurricane Dorian Devastation
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…
