Category: News

Episcopal Workday at the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank

Again this year the Social Justice and Outreach Committee is sponsoring a repack session at the Food Bank during Lent. Come join fellow Episcopalians from… Read More

Bishop McConnell’s Letter to the Diocese Regarding the Agreement

February 28, 2018 Dear sisters and brothers in Christ, Nearly ten years ago, the Diocese of Pittsburgh was split, with many of its members separating… Read More

A Pastoral Note: The Violence in Parkland

February 17, 2018 Dear friends in Christ, Parkland.  The name has now entered our national glossary of sorrow.  It is all too familiar, and yet,… Read More

Love, Ash Wednesday, and Living Into Lent

February 14, 2018 Dear Friends in Christ, I was raised Episcopalian and, as a youth, I loved Ash Wednesday. What could be cooler than having… Read More

Grants Available to Help Prepare You for Mission

The Diocese is pleased to announce the availability of new Formation for Mission Grants, for clergy and laypersons who want to learn more about how… Read More

Lenten Learning Day 2018

Join others from around the diocese at St. James, Penn Hills, for a special day of learning and worship. Bishop Dorsey McConnell has expressed the mission…

Lenten Preaching Series

Seventeenth Annual East End Parishes Lenten Preaching Series – Proclaiming Christ: not only with our lips but in our lives.

Divine Dignity and Divine Love

Christmas, 2017 Dear Friends in Christ, I am in favor of Christmas. I really am. I do believe it is a season of love, hope… Read More

Opening the Door: Practicing the Season of Waiting

I bet you know the feeling – you run into Giant Eagle on a Saturday afternoon to pick up a quart of milk, and when you hit the registers, the lines are ten deep. Two of the self-checkout lanes are down, but you manage to find the one with only six people in front of you.

To the Ends of the Earth: Part 1

First, its crazy route: Pittsburgh to Minneapolis to Toronto to Shanghai. That gets me only into China. Then add another 3,000 kilometer trek west to Kunming and a final flight to Tenchong on the border with Myanmar. And back again. In six days. It is an odyssey, as if filmed in fast-forward.