Bishop Spiegel says in all her years following Christ, she never thought that simply sitting in a pew and picking up a prayer book could be deemed unsafe for members of her diocese.

This is exactly what Pope Francis has done since his election in 2013 concerning the role of women in the church. Gradually, he has expanded the space for their involvement, opening certain ...

Elliot Grandia digs into why the Episcopal Church around West Michigan is outpacing some denominations in the percentage of attendees making a return to church.

The U.S. Constitution does not have the provision and the wisdom of the laws of the Catholic Church that says that at 75, you must present your resignation as a bishop (and at 80, as a cardinal ...

The church will hold the First Friday Fundraiser on Friday, Feb. 7, from 5 to 6:30 p.m. The Spaghetti Dinner will be to ...

St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church donated $5,000 to the Livingston Warming Center last week. On Thursday, the Rev. Kristin E. Orr and Livingston City Commissioner Quentin Scwharz delivered the check to ...

But on the first full day of his second term, Trump attended a national prayer service in Washington, D.C., where he sat and listened to the bishop of the local Episcopal Diocese. As my MSNBC ...

The Episcopal Church of the Ascension invites you to a service of Holy Eucharist at 9 a.m. Sunday. All are welcome at Ascension’s services of worship, including children. Ascension Church’s ...

She is the first woman to hold her church position Budde, 65, is the first woman to lead the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, a position she has held since 2011. She oversees 86 churches across ...

While much like the American public, the religious community is politically diverse: the longstanding norm of separating church and state ... Rev. Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop of Washington ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. President Donald Trump is demanding an apology from the Episcopal bishop of Washington after she asked him ...

She brought her church into the World of politics in a very ungracious way. She was nasty in tone, and not compelling or smart,” Trump wrote about Budde in a Truth Social post. He told reporters ...