Also: Election aftermath, Rowe makes staff changes

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Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe and his predecessor, the Most Rev. Michael Curry, at Rowe’s investiture. | The Episcopal Church


** Rowe Installed as 28th Presiding Bishop
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By Lauren Anderson-Cripps

Beginning his ministry in a chapel rather than a cathedral, the Most Rev. Sean Rowe was installed as presiding bishop on November 2 in a scaled-down, livestreamed service. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Presiding Bishop Rowe Begins Changing Staff
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By Douglas LeBlanc

Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe announced three departures from his staff and three new appointments, all involving people in positions of central importance to the church’s work. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Episcopal Leaders Call for Open Hearts in Election Aftermath
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By Lauren Anderson-Cripps

Bishop Matthew Gunter of Wisconsin: "Keeping our hearts supple toward neighbors, strangers, and enemies—supple toward those whose political choices baffle or offend us—is hard. But this is at the core of the Christian message and of Christian practice.” Read on ([link removed]) .


** Executive Council Launches Strategic Overhaul
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By Mark Michael

Executive Council members participated in a workshop on “conversations across difference” that seemed aimed at directly addressing the contentious nature of council meetings in the last two years. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Commentary: Political Religion or Religious Politics?
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By Matthew S.C. Olver

TLC Publisher and Executive Director Matthew Olver recounts his experience attending his first political rally, just days before the presidential election. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Five Under 25 in 2024
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By Weston Curnow

Five young people across the Episcopal Church are applying the gospel to their vocations. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Book Review: Naim Ateek: Eyewitness in the Holy Lands
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By Nicholas Porter

Call and Commitment: A Journey of Faith from Nakba to Palestinian Liberation Theology is an autobiographical book that shares the remarkable life and memories of an extraordinary theologian. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Podcast: Pastoring Through Climate Change with Rafael Morales Maldonado
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By TLC Staff

Host Amber Noel speaks with Bishop Rafael Morales Maldonado of Puerto Rico on how the diocese has integrated concern for climate change into its ministry. Listen here ([link removed]) .


** A Three-Day Work Week? The Life of One Priest
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By John Mason Lock
In a two-part essay, John Mason Lock pulls back the curtain on the weekly rhythm of a parish priest's work. Read Part 1 ([link removed]) and Part 2 ([link removed]) .


** End Road Work
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By Victor Austin
"End Road Work" signs and the ever-present sidewalk sheds of our urban landscapes remind Victor Austin of T.S. Eliot's pleading question, "Where is there an end of it?"—to our strife, our hostilities, our machinations, to our election season? Read on ([link removed]) .


** A Review — Circle of Hope: A Reckoning with Love, Power, and Justice in an American Church
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By Rachel Bush Erdman
A review of Eliza Griswold’s five-year immersive reporting project with Circle of Hope Church, a progressive, evangelical Anabaptist congregation in Philadelphia. Read on ([link removed]) .


** Gratitude on Election Day
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By Thomas Kincaid
Thomas Kincaid reflects on conversations he's had in dozens of countries over the past few years, exchanges that always circle back to the perception of good things happening in America. Read on ([link removed]) .

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