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[Episcopal News Service] The Ven. J. Stannard “Stan” Baker, a deacon at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Burlington, Vermont, and the lead plaintiff in Baker v. Vermont, the 2000 case that established civil unions in Vermont, died late June 23 of an apparent heart attack. He was 79. He died in Louisville, Kentucky, where he and his husband Peter Harrigan were attending a Barbie convention; Harrigan is an avid collector. Baker’s death came just hours after he took part by Zoom in the […]

[Episcopal News Service – Linthicum Heights, Maryland] The Episcopal Church welcomed its newest diocese on June 24 – the Missionary Diocese of Navajoland – though, as Navajo Episcopalians and church leaders noted, the elevation of Navajoland from an Episcopal mission formalizes a reality already felt for years in Navajo Nation communities. “Navajoland was already living as a missionary diocese in spirit and practice,” GJ Gordy, an Executive Council member from Navajoland, said before […]

[Anglican Taonga]  The Diocese of Waiapu  has seen a boost in new mission activities with the Rev. Carl Tinnion backing new ministries as “Mission Rejuvenator” over the last three years. In 2022, Waiapu Bishop Andrew Hedge invited Carl Tinnion to bring his fresh perspective and missional energy into the eastern North Island diocese, inspired by Tod Bolsinger’s 2018 book entitled “Canoeing the Mountains.” “Canoeing the Mountains” tells the story of two 19th-century European […]

[World Council of Churches] The World Council of Churches central committee has expressed concern for the right and title to St. Catherine’s Monastery, an autonomous monastic community spiritually connected with the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem, located at the foot of Mount Sinai in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt. Built between 548 and 565 by order of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I, it was recognized as a World Heritage site in 2002. “Following a history since 2012 of actual or […]

[Episcopal News Service] The Memphis-based Diocese of West Tennessee and the Southeastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America released a pastoral letter “with heavy hearts” expressing their commitment to support transgender youth and their families in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 ruling last week upholding a Tennessee ban on providing gender-affirming medical care for trans and nonbinary minors. “Today, transgender youth and their families find themselves in […]

[Episcopal News Service – Linthicum Heights, Maryland] The Episcopal Church must remain committed to Christian witness in increasingly troubling times, Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe said June 23 in his opening remarks to Executive Council, and the church’s new chief financial officer outlined accounting upgrades to help bolster the church in that mission. Rowe opened this June 23-25 meeting by inviting prayers for the Middle East amid recent attacks between Israel and Iran and the June 22 U.S. […]