Episcopal Conversations

A website dedicated to the exchange of articles and opinions relevant to modern Episcopal life.

A Collect for Education

Almighty God, the fountain of all wisdom: Enlighten by your Holy spirit those who teach and those who learn, that, rejoicing in the knowledge of your truth, they may worship you and serve you from generation to generation; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen

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Connie Williams Connie Williams offers her personal reflections on Holy Week.
At Canaan's Edge with Episcopal Peace Fellowship This is an essay by Dick Hall. He writes, "I have been reading Branch Taylor's new book 'At Canaan's Edge' and have been moved by the witness of Jonathan Daniels." Taylor's segment on Selma in 1965 presents the Episcopal Church at its best and possibly worst. I think the story is a parable for the church in any age."
Rachel Taber-Hamilton This is an article on Marriage by the Rev. Rachel Taber-Hamilton. Rachel has an M.A. from the University. of Alaska/Fairbanks in anthropology and and M. Div. from Loyola University Chicago. Her Ph.D. dissertation at Indiana University was on Priestly Formation. She writes about this topic from the perspective of history and anthropology. Read the article here.
Nigel Taber-Hamilton with Bonnie and Dougal The following two articles are by Nigel Taber-Hamilton. Nigel holds a combined honors degree (MCL) from the University of Wales, Bangor, in Biblical Studies and Religious History, a second bachelor’s degree from the University of Birmingham, England, as well as his M. Div. from his English Seminary, Queens College, also in Birmingham. Nigel first came to this country in 1977 as a World Council of Churches Ecumenical Fellow based at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA. In addition to his role as an Ecumenical Fellow Nigel studied at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, our west coast Episcopal seminary in the GTU, graduating in 1978.

The first article, "The Windsor Report: a hope for reconciliation," was published in the Episcopal Voice, and won the national "Polly Bond Award" for excellence in religious comment in 2005. Read it here.

The second article, "The Reformation is now: reflections on the changing Christian world views," also by Nigel Taber-Hamilton, was also printed in Episcopal voice, this time in 2005. It has been submitted to the judges of the Polly Bond Awards for 2006. Read it here.
Bishop Sandy Hampton

"BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS - OR ARE THEY?"

On January 16, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. national holiday 2006, The St. Augustine's Episcopal Peace Fellowship sponsored a community Martin Luther King event entitled "Blessed are the Peacemakers." An estimated 95 persons were in attendance to pray, sing African-American spirituals, hear scripture readings, listen to a reading of Rev. King's 1967 Riverside Church speech "Beyond Vietnam," lift up in prayer witnesses for nonviolent social action and reflect on Bishop Hampton's homily. Following Bishop Hampton's homily there followed an informal discussion of Bishop Hampton's message. Tfhe event ended with the gathering holding hands and singing "We Shall Overcome." The text of Bishop Sandy Hampton's homily is here.