June 17, 2013
[Episcopal News Service] It’s one thing to practice piano duets in the parlor when no one’s home to hear. It’s another when your tunes, and possible missteps, reverberate across town.
“When we practice on the main instrument, somebody always is listening,” says Lisa Lonie, carillonneur at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania, and at Princeton University in New Jersey. She recently launched a...
The Rev. Canon Paul-Gordon Chandler, a mission partner of the Episcopal Church serving in Egypt, is moving on from...
June 14, 2013
Dr. Mary Nelson, a-cofounding Board member of Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance, was honored for her years of leadership at a June 12 gala at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art. The Fleurotica Runway show parades models...
June 13, 2013
- CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. H. Julian Gordy, the Rev. Ralph E. Jones, the Rev. Kurt F. Kusserow, the Rev. Lawrence R. Wohlrabe and the Rev. David B. Zellmer were re-elected this spring to serve six-year terms as synod bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. H. Julian Gordy Gordy, bishop of the ELCA Southeastern Synod, was re-elected for a second six-year term on the first ballot during the synod’s assembly May 31-June 2 in Chattanooga, Tenn. Prior to being elected...
June 12, 2013
- CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. James S. Dunlop, Littlestown, Pa., was elected June 8 to a six-year term as bishop of the Lower Susquehanna Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Dunlop was elected on the fifth ballot during the synod’s assembly June 6-8 in Grantham, Pa. “I felt the movement of the Holy Spirit in the assembly, and I am humbled by the confidence that the Lower Susquehanna Synod has shown in me,” said Dunlop. “It is an incredible time of change fo...
Associate Pastor of Congressional Life Joyce Shin of Chicago’s Fourth Presbyterian Church delivers a prayer at the 20th Anniversary Celebration Kickoff of CPWR, May 11, 2013 at the Sikh Religious Society of Chicago
...- CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. Tracie L. Bartholomew, Lawrenceville, N.J., was elected June 8 to a six-year term as bishop of the New Jersey Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Bartholomew was elected on the fifth ballot during the synod’s assembly June 6-8 in East Brunswick, N.J. “I ask for prayers for me and for our congregations as we transition into this new chapter in our synod. I can't wait to see what new adventures lie ahead,” said Bartholomew. ...
- CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. Roger R. Gustafson, Olathe, Kan., was elected June 8 to a six-year term as bishop of the Central States Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Gustafson was elected on the fifth ballot during the synod’s assembly June 6-9 in Overland Park, Kan. “Love God, love neighbor. According to Jesus, that’s the ethic that fuels a life of significance and abundance, a life that is satisfying before God,” said Gustafson. “I pray for the wisdom...
Church rediscovers ‘DNA’ of ministry at neighboring college it founded.
June 12, 2013
Jennifer Aycock (far left) chillin' before worship with Lake Forest College students —...