Bishop James E. Waggoner said clergy discussed how their activities during worship translate into daily action.
“What we do when we come together and what we say when we worship, how is that carried forward into our lives and the way we function in the world?,” he said.
The Rev. Paul Lebens-Englund loves the ministry of coffee shops and greenways, barstools and dining room tables. Anywhere people are making conversation and living life is somewhere he likes to be.
Gay and lesbian Episcopalians are celebrating their church’s approval on Tuesday (July 10) of a liturgical rite for blessing same-sex couples. But conservatives are threatening to take “drastic” steps to distance themselves from the Episcopal Church.