All posts tagged: Episcopal Church

Church Attendence in American is reverting to the norm, not declining

January 21, 2024
by Nicholas Knisely
Current Affairs / Religion

The Canon to the Ordinary here Rhode Island, the Rev. Canon Dr. Dena Cleaver-Bartholemew pointed me to this post on Threads: @marlena.graves • Threads: From my dissertation, “Kevin Kruse judiciously points out that in 1850 church attendance was a mere 16 percent and that in 1900 church attendance was at 36 percent. It was only at the end of the 1950s that church attendance skyrocketed to 69 percent after corporate interests had been pushing an […]

Presiding Bishop recovering at home after today’s medical procedure

January 18, 2024
by Nicholas Knisely
Current Affairs

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry home following medical procedure – The Episcopal Church: Presiding Bishop Michael Curry underwent a procedure earlier today to address his reoccurring subdural hematomas. That procedure was successful, and he is now home from the hospital where he will continue his recovery. There was communication yesterday from the Presiding Bishop’s Office that the PB was going to have a procedure done that should stop the recurring episodes of cranial bleeding that he […]

Speak of coming failure, not success?

January 11, 2024
by Nicholas Knisely
Current Affairs / Religion

The failure of Anglican managerialism | Gerry Lynch | The Critic Magazine: High Modernism in its post-War heyday was marked by strong confidence in scientific, technological, and moral progress; deference to expertise and technique — or the verisimilitude of them; faith that humanity could master nature — including human nature; and a disregard for local variation, and inherited organically-developed concepts and structures. […]But we don’t live in 1963 anymore. The decline of faith in modernism […]

Please pray for PB Curry and for the medical team this morning.

January 6, 2024
by Nicholas Knisely
Current Affairs

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry re-hospitalized, undergoing surgery – The Episcopal Church: Presiding Bishop Michael Curry has been diagnosed with a reoccurrence of the subdural hematoma he experienced in early December of 2023. He will be undergoing surgery this morning to treat this issue, and updates on his health will be provided as they become available. Please be in prayer for Bishop Curry, his family, and his medical team. This is not the news I wanted […]