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Zimbabwe Anglican Jestina Mukoko honored by U.S. Department of State for human rights workJestina Mukoko, a Zimbabwe Anglican and human rights activist, has been presented with the 2010 International Women of Courage award by the U.S. Department of State....
Mark Richardson named as new Church Divinity School of the Pacific presidentThe Church Divinity School of the Pacific's board of trustees announced March 11 that the Rev. Dr. W. Mark Richardson has accepted the offer to become the seminary's next president and dean....
Southwest professor appointed to Anglican Communion Theological Education groupThe Rev. Dr. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge has been appointed to the steering committee of the Anglican Communion Theological Education working party....
Veteran Katrina worker leaves New OrleansEpiscopal Community Services in the Diocese of Louisiana has announced that Courtney Cowart, its director of advocacy and community affairs, is leaving at the end of the month to follow what the agency called "a strong call to return to her voca...
David Tarbet remembered for seeking 'the Gospel in people' and ways to serveColleagues, family and friends celebrated the Rev. David Tarbet's life by attending a March 6 party already planned for what would have been his 69th birthday....
Choral master Richard Proulx remembered for more than five decades of musical 'genius' … and in performances to comeProlific composer and choral master Richard Proulx, who wrote his first composition at age 8 and whose musical career spanned more than five decades among Episcopal, Roman Catholic and Jewish congregations from Chicago to Washington, died last month,...
Episcopal Divinity School appoints two new faculty membersThe trustees of Episcopal Divinity School have announced the appointment of the Rev. Dr. Patrick S. Cheng and the Rev. Dr. Susanna J. Snyder as junior faculty members with initial three-year contracts commencing July 1, 2010....
Two candidates added to bishop suffragan for federal ministries slateTwo nominees have been added to the slate of six candidates for the next Episcopal Church's bishop suffragan for federal ministries....
South African theologian Steve de Gruchy dies at 48South African theologian, author and activist Steve de Gruchy drowned Feb. 21 while river tubing with his son in the Natal Midlands near the Drakensburg Mountains. He was 48...
Province VIII welcomes new interim youth, Native American ministries coordinatorsThe Episcopal Church's Province VIII recently welcomed two new provincial coordinators, the Rev. Earl Gibson as interim coordinator for youth ministries, and Paul Nahoa Lucas as coordinator for Native American and Indigenous People ministries....
World Interfaith Award goes to Gwynne Guibord of Los AngelesThe National Association of Interchurch and Interfaith Families (NAIIF) has given its annual "World Interfaith Leader Award" to the Rev. Dr. Gwynne Guibord from the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, according to a news release from the orga...
Theological Education fund appoints fellowship directorKim Hearn has been named director of ministry fellowships at the Fund for Theological Education, an ecumenical, nonprofit advocate for excellence and diversity in pastoral ministry and theological scholarship. ...
Bishop Suffragan for Federal Ministries nominees announced A nominating committee of the Episcopal Church Feb. 8 announced the names of six candidates to become the sixth bishop suffragan for federal ministries. ...
Province V appoints Jo Gantzer as coordinatorJo Gantzer has been appointed provincial coordinator for Province V effective Feb. 1, according to the Rev. Canon Alan James, provincial president, in a letter sent to the province's executive committee...
Missouri priest discovers 'What Not to Wear'Frumpy dressing isn't one of the seven deadly sins, but it landed the Rev. Emily Bloemker in a Friday, Feb. 5 upcoming episode of the reality television show "What Not to Wear"...
Virginia seminary recognizes Harry G. Chase for lay leadership, Joseph S. Pagano for preachingVirginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria has awarded the 2010 Lettie Pate Whitehead Evans (LPWE) Award to Harry G. Chase from East Tennessee, while the Rev. Dr. Joseph S. Pagano, rector of Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Baltimore, Maryland, was name...
Nelson Famadas, Episcopal Relief and Development board member, dies at 61Episcopal Relief and Development board member and prominent Puerto Rican and southeast Florida businessman Nelson Famadas died Jan. 25 in Miami, Florida, of complications from heart surgery. ...
Robert Rowley, retired bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania, to be laid to restEpiscopal Diocese of Northwestern Pennsylvania 's seventh bishop, the Rt. Rev. Robert Rowley Jr., 68, will be buried in Arlington National Cemetery after funeral services on Jan. 22....
Virginia Seminary announces appointment of new field education directorThe board of trustees of Virginia Theological Seminary has elected the Rev. Canon Dr. Allison St. Louis (VTS '00) to the faculty of the seminary as director of field education and the Second Three Years program, according to a release from the semina...
Sewanee chooses new president, vice chancellorThe Board of Trustees of the University of the South has appointed John M. McCardell Jr., president emeritus of Middlebury College, to be the school's 16th president and vice chancellor....
Episcopal Relief and Development welcomes new board membersEpiscopal Relief and Development has announced the election of three new members to its board of directors, effective Jan. 1: Pearl Chin of the Diocese of New York (Province II; Sharon Hilpert, Dioceses of Wyoming and California (Provinces V and VIII...
Services held for V. Nelle Bellamy, former Episcopal Church archivistV. Nelle Bellamy, 87, archivist for the Episcopal Church for more than 30 years, died Dec. 23 in Knoxville, Tennessee, and was buried on Dec. 30 after a memorial service at St. John's Episcopal Church, Johnson City...
Atlanta cathedral dean named Fund for Theological Education trusteeThe Very Rev. Samuel G. Candler, dean of the Cathedral of St. Philip in the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta, is one of four people recently elected by the Association of Theological Schools (ATS) as members of the Fund for Theological Education's (FTE) ...
GTS's Dean Ewing announces retirement plansThe Very Rev. Ward Burleson Ewing, dean and president of the General Theological Seminary (GTS), has told the school he plans to retire....
Teaching award presented to EDS professor Kwok Pui LanDr. Kwok Pui Lan, William F. Cole Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality at Episcopal Divinity School, received the American Academy of Religion (AAR) Excellence in Teaching Award at the organization's 2009 Annual Meeting in Montréal...
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