Announcing New Part-Time, Bi-Diocesan Staff Members
Dear Friends, We are thrilled to announce the hiring of four regional youth missioners to serve our two dioceses. The intention is to develop additional on-the-ground support for our local congregations in the area of youth ministry appropriately contextualized to the area in which they serve. In this role, they are charged with communicating and […]
Bishop Singh Reflects on Black History Month
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The Rt. Rev. Prince G. Singh offers a word and reflection for Black History Month, calling us into the work of mutual understanding, historical examination, and anti-discrimination.
Bishop Update | Prince Singh Nomination
People of Eastern and Western Michigan, With excitement, we announce the nomination of the Rt. Rev. Prince G. Singh, Ph.D. to serve as Bishop Provisional of The Episcopal Dioceses of Eastern and Western Michigan. For more on the background of the canons around the selection of a bishop provisional and our own interviewing and selection […]
Bishop Update | Provisional Process
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Dear Friends in Christ, As we approach our diocesan convention later this month, we write with an update on the process of selecting a bishop provisional to serve alongside our people in Eastern and Western Michigan. As was announced in August, a special interviewing committee composed of equal members of both dioceses met several times […]
Feast Days with Bishop Skip | St. Michael and All Angels
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Our call now is to be a people, a Church, that looks and acts like Jesus.
Feast Days with Bishop Skip | St. Matthew the Apostle
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Whom do we not see? For whom would it be easy to walk on by, not recognize or acknowledge? Whom do we choose not to value?
FEAST DAYS WITH BISHOP SKIP | HOLY CROSS DAY
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“And I, when I am lifted up, will draw all people to myself.” John 12:32 John’s Gospel understands Jesus’ self-offering on the cross as his exaltation. Thus he is “lifted up” as on a throne. An instrument of death that was meant to be a political statement of Rome’s power, that was meant to humiliate […]
FEAST DAYS WITH BISHOP SKIP | SAINT BARTHOLOMEW THE APOSTLE
He is on the list of twelve. Not much more can be said about Bartholomew. Three of the Gospels and the book of Acts mention him as one of the apostles, but beyond that we know almost nothing. Interesting conjecture poses the possibility that Bartholomew and Nathanael were the same person. There are other traditions […]