The Episcopal Church Foundation, one of the most successful independent Episcopal Church ventures, celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. The Foundation was born out of the rising determination of post World War II commitment and the vision of the Episcopal Church's first full-time Presiding Bishop, Henry Knox Sherrill. "It is time that we have great convictions about great things," said Sherrill.
18 March 1999
In these December days, as Christians await the coming of the Prince of Peace, Hanukkah has just begun and the season of Ramadan is days away, it is a tragic irony that the relationship between the United States and Iraq has deteriorated into military conflict once again in that part of the world called holy by Christians, Jews and Muslims.
22 December 1998
As death tolls climbed toward 10,000 and flood waters swept away homes, roads, bridges and livelihoods last month, Hondurans saw their church connections become a lifeline sent by God.
18 November 1998
This morning, Steve Hinds, one of our paritioners at Christ Church, Denver began his 2-day journey to Honduras with his 1942 twin-engine Beech filled with medical and other supplies for the relief effort. He will be there for two weeks flying missions into cut-off locations under the direction of the Honduran military authorities. Among his cargo are several large boxes of seed packets that will be delivered directly to Bishop Frade for distribution.
18 November 1998
"But the disciples took Saul by night, and let him down over the wall, lowering him in a basket." Acts 9:25
18 November 1998
Sweaters and winter apparel are definitely OK. Temperatures that may seem shirt-sleeve weather to you cold-blooded types can seem unbearably cold to us in the tropics. When I was growing up, I spent all of my summers on the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia. Like everyone there, I complained if the temperature rose above 75 Farenheit, that it was getting too hot. Now that I have lived in the tropics for 13 years, like everyone else here on the coast
17 November 1998
"I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of a flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth." Genesis 9:11
17 November 1998
"Therefore its name was called Babel, because the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth." Genesis 11:9
15 November 1998
"I called on thy name, O Lord from the depths of the pit; thou disdst hear my plea, Do not close thine ear to my cry for help!" Lamentations 3:55
15 November 1998