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Episcopal Start
The Diocese provides transitional/interim ministry training for clergy who serve in interim positions or who have recently moved to a new cure. This support is offered to both clergy who transition into the diocese and those who transition within ...Read More ›
Episcopal Youth Event
REGISTER. Register by March 10 The Episcopal Youth Event (EYE) is a gathering of youth ages 15-19 from around the world who assemble on a college campus to learn, laugh and worship together. It is the single greatest and second largest event th...Read More ›
Fast Facts
THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH The Episcopal Church is a member of the Anglican Communion. The Church is comprised of approximately 111 diocese in 17 nations. The Episcopal Church is overseen by a presiding bishop. The current presiding bishop is t...Read More ›
Financial Responsibility of Postulants for the Vocational Diaconate
$350 for psychological testing $200 per academic course: Old Testament, New Testament, and Church History $700 for Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) $500 for miscellaneous expenses: books, mileage, spiritual direction/retreat, etc. FINANCIAL AI...Read More ›
Find a Church or Ministry
We invite you to take the first step in finding a church home by searching the 120 congregations, chaplaincies and campus ministries located in the Diocese of North Carolina. The map below allows you to search geographically if finding a congregat...Read More ›
Formation
OBJECTIVE: Form disciples of Jesus by engaging in lifelong Christian formation that is inclusive and deepens our relationship to God so that we can do the transformative work we are called to do in the world. I am interested in this work ...Read More ›
General Convention
The 81st General Convention of The Episcopal Church took place June 23-28, 2024, in Louisville, Kentucky. Here you'll find all the coverage the Diocese of North Carolina had to offer. The Episcopal Church Media Hub The Episcopal Chur...Read More ›
Genesis
Genesis has been postponed. Genesis is a middle school event during which young people grades 6-8 are encouraged to learn more and grow deeper in their faith through talks and the leadership of high school age youth. Join us for a youth-lead week...Read More ›
Getting Started with Youth and Children's Ministry
FIRST STEPS Email Lisa Aycock, lead youth missioner; Leah Dail, assistant youth missioner; and Amy Campbell, children and family minister, to introduce yourself. Sign up for the monthly youth ministry newsletter. Verify you are up-to-da...Read More ›
Global Mission Grants
Churches in the Diocese of North Carolina are invited to apply for funding in support of global mission. Desiring to increase global relationships among our congregations as an expression of God’s love and as an advancement of God’s mission in...Read More ›
Glossary of Terms
Access a full dictionary of Episcopal terminology ANGLICAN COMMUNION: Churches around the world that are in communion with each other and with the See of Canterbury, (i.e., Church of England) and that hold the same faith, order, and worship. A...Read More ›
Go Speak: Reconciliation Edition
Go Speak is a program introduced in this diocese in 2014. As Bishop Anne said then, “it is a process to help each of us give voice to the quiet, ordinary places we meet and feel God’s divine presence as well as create deeper levels of ...Read More ›
Gospel-Based Discipleship
Gospel-Based Discipleship (GBD) is intended to provide you with a daily opportunity to encounter the Gospel and encourage reflection. Each day includes Gospel readings from the Daily Office Lectionary as well as prayers from the diocesan clergy...Read More ›
Grants & Scholarships
Below is a brief overview of grants available through the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina with links to applications, additional information and selection committee contacts. [Learn about grant-writing with this handy beginner's guide by the...Read More ›
Green Grants
Apply for a Green Grant The Green Grants Program of the North Carolina Episcopal Church Foundation is a special incentive designed to help congregations make improvements to their physical plant that will conserve natural resources, reduce ener...Read More ›
Green Tips
2018 Jan. 8 - Turn off the water while brushing your teeth. For each person who builds this new habit, four gallons of water a minute is saved. That’s up to 50 gallons of water per person per week –or 200 gallons a week for a fami...Read More ›
Guidelines for Clergy Leave-taking
A good beginning depends on a good ending. Your parish’s ability to call your successor depends on how well you leave and on your ability to let go. Your character and integrity are demonstrated in how you leave a position. These are not comma...Read More ›
Guidelines for PDCs - Deacons
Download these guidelines as a PDF. OVERVIEWDiscernment of the varieties of ministry in the Lord's service to which an individual might be called is the responsibility of that individual, their clergy and the worshipping community. As such, the...Read More ›
Guidelines for PDCs - Priests
Download the PDC report form. OVERVIEW Sponsoring Presbyter All materials for a new Nominee class must be on file at Diocesan House by March 15. Therefore, it is crucially important to become aware of the tasks that need completion prior...Read More ›
The Diocese Gives Thanks for the Ministry of the Rev. Randall Keeney
posted on Mar 19, 2024The diocese gives thanks for the ministry of the Rev. Randall Keeney, retiring vicar of St. Barnabas, Greensboro. He has served as the vicar of St. Barnabas since 2006. We give thanks for Keeney and his ministry and wish him Godspeed as he enters ...
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Disciple: When Companionship Becomes Relationship
posted on Mar 18, 2024The relationship between the Dioceses of North Carolina and Botswana continues to grow and thrive By Christine McTaggart and friends “He has showed you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and ...
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Disciple: An Intergenerational Tapestry
posted on Mar 18, 2024How St. John’s, Wake Forest, is bringing generations together through worship By Summerlee Walter When Louis Mullinger first heard the Rev. Sarah Phelps’ idea for a new experimental worship service at St. John’s, Wake Forest, his react...
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Disciple: Creating a Brave Space for Worship
posted on Mar 18, 2024An interview with the Rev. Phillip Bass, one of the founding ministers of Beloved Community at The Trees Interviewed on January 26 by Summerlee Walter The Beloved Community at The Trees is a faith community rooted in Episcopal liturgy and...
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Disciple: Easter: A Season of Repurposing
posted on Mar 18, 2024By the Rev. Canon Kathy Walker Spring is undoubtedly my favorite season of the year. A new kind of energy is present. The number of layers required to go outside significantly dwindles. Coats are gone and boots are put away for another ti...
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Disciple: The Privilege of Prison Ministry
posted on Mar 18, 2024“I was in prison and you visited me.” (Matthew 25:11) By the Rev. David Stanford When the words “prison ministry” are used, it often evokes images of actually going into prisons and jails to tend to the physical and spiritual needs...
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Disciple: Little Resurrections
posted on Mar 18, 2024By Bishop Sam Rodman There was an article last spring in The New York Times [1] about people who have taken up something again after a long hiatus. The author wrote about skiing for the first time in 20 years, detailing how much she enjoyed re...
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Disciple: New, Notable & Newsworthy
posted on Mar 18, 2024Lent 2024: “Give Up Your Silence” For many, the season of Lent is a time of action, letting go of old habits or laying the foundations for new ones. For others, Lent is a time of spiritual introspection, of finding new paths to deepe...
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Disciple: Advocacy Day 2024
posted on Mar 18, 2024This year’s event includes an invitation to add your voice By Christine McTaggart In March 2023, members of several diocesan advocacy teams and committees took part in the first-ever diocesan Advocacy Day at the North Carolina General As...
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Disciple: Giving a Voice to God’s People
posted on Mar 18, 2024The Lay Preacher Training Initiative begins its second cohort By Jenny Beaumont The ministry of lay people is vital as people respond to their baptismal vows and God’s call in their lives. The Book of Common Prayer says that ministers ...
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Disciple: Life as a Military Chaplain
posted on Mar 18, 2024By Chaplain (Captain) Anna Page To be invited into the most intimate aspects of another person’s life is the most humbling privilege. To be viewed as an embodied representation of grace, hope and love is the most immense joy. To be truste...
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Registration Now Open for History Day 2024
posted on Mar 11, 2024“An ‘elevated position’ in the American Church:” Bishop Ravenscroft’s High Church Legacy April 27, 9 a.m.- 5 p.m., at Christ Church, Raleigh, and Historic St. John’s, Williamsboro Register by April 21 John Stark Ravenscroft was ...
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A Message from the Bishops
posted on Feb 28, 2024Read in English | En español February 28, 2024 Dear Beloved Members of our Diocese: We write to let you know of a difficult and heartbreaking situation at the most recent Bishop’s Ball. On Saturday evening of the event, there was an...
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Registration is Open for Diocesan Pilgrimage to Wilmington, NC
posted on Feb 21, 2024Announced earlier this year, registration is now open for the diocesan pilgrimage to Wilmington, North Carolina. REGISTER Based on the book Wilmington's Lie by David Zucchino and the subject of the diocesan book study currently underwa...
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The Diocese Gives Thanks for the Ministry of the Rev. Audra Abt
posted on Feb 2, 2024The diocese gives thanks for the ministry of the Rev. Audra Abt, departing vicar of Holy Spirit, Greensboro, and mission developer and pastor of Abundant Life, Greensboro. Abt has served as Holy Spirit's vicar for the last seven year and helped de...
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Churches from Across the Diocese of North Carolina Share Events to Mark and Celebrate Black History Month
posted on Jan 31, 2024Churches from across the Diocese of North Carolina are sharing opportunities to mark and celebrate Black History Month. These events are happening in the churches and surrounding local communities. If you have events to add, please send them to co...
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The Rev. Stephanie Yancy and the Rev. Dr. Cathy Deats Called as Co-interim Rectors
posted on Dec 30, 2023The Rev. Stephanie Yancy and the Rev. Dr. Cathy Deats have been called as co-interim rectors of Church of the Nativity, Raleigh. Yancy and Deats will serve together, sharing a full-time position to provide pastoral support and coverage to Nativit...
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The Diocese Gives Thanks for the Ministry of the Rev. Joyce Corbin Allen
posted on Dec 18, 2023The diocese gives thanks for the ministry of the Rev. Joyce Corbin Allen, retiring associate rector at Good Shepherd, Raleigh. Allen has served at Good Shepherd since October 2019. Previously, she served as the interim associate rector at Chapel o...
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The Diocese Welcomes the Rev. Craig Dolack
posted on Dec 6, 2023The diocese welcomes the Rev. Craig Dolack as the rector, time certain, at Calvary, Wadesboro. Dolack most recently served as the rector of St. Luke's, Hawkinsville, Georgia, in the Diocese of Georgia. He also has served the church in the Dioceses...
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Disciple: Finding Our Center
posted on Dec 6, 2023By Bishop Sam Rodman One of the great gifts to me at the end of my time in seminary was an introduction to meditative Centering Prayer. The Rev. Dabney Carr, who actually worked at Virginia Theological Seminary as the development officer, b...
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Episode 3: Exploring Scripture
posted on Feb 1, 2023Episode 3 Notes We’ve aggregated helpful resources and additional information about the religious writings, practices, symbols and thinkers discussed in this episode. Psalm 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against...
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Episode 1: To Differ Is Divine
posted on Jan 25, 2023To Differ is Divine grew out of the ongoing interfaith conversations between Bishop Sam Rodman, the bishop diocesan of North Carolina, and Rabbi Raachel Jurovics, the Diocese’s rabbi-in-residence and former leader of Yavneh: A Jewish Renewal Com...
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Episode 2: Faith Languages
posted on Jan 25, 2023In this episode, Rabbi Raachel and Bishop Sam look to the scriptures of Judaism and Christianity to explain the importance of embracing spiritual permeability as a way to explore our own faith and to understand and be enriched by the faith traditi...
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Season 2, Episode 6: Trusting the Process
posted on Oct 28, 2022Season 2: Race and Voting Rights Episode 6: Trusting the Process In the season finale of "Roundtables on Race," our season-long look at the intersection of race and voting rights culminates in a conversation about building trust in the system in ...
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Season 2, Episode 5: The Role and Impact of the Courts
posted on Oct 21, 2022Season 2: Race and Voting Rights Episode 5: The Role and Impact of the Courts Among the many facets related to race and voting rights, one element front and center in today’s headlines is the role and impact of the courts. Historically and toda...
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Season 2, Episode 4: The State of Voting on College Campuses
posted on Sep 30, 2022Season 2: Race and Voting Rights Episode 4: The State of Voting on College Campuses Young adults have always had a significant presence in the voting process and social justice movements, and that presence is only increasing, with young adult vot...
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Season 2, Episode 3: Facts and Myths of Voter Suppression
posted on Sep 23, 2022Season 2: Race and Voting Rights Episode 3: Facts and Myths of Voter Suppression Following Episode 2's exploration of the systemic issues that might interfere with a person's right to vote, in this third installment of our look at race and voting...
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Season 2, Episode 2: Barriers and Impact Factors
posted on Sep 16, 2022Season 2: Race and Voting Rights Episode 2: Barriers and Impact Factors In this second episode of our season-long look at race and voting rights, we take a look at some of the systemic barriers and impact factors related to race and voting. Host ...
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Season 2, Episode 1: Historical Context and Contemporary Trends
posted on Sep 9, 2022Season 2: Race and Voting Rights Episode 1: Historical Context and Contemporary Trends Roundtables on Race is back for its second season, taking a look at Race and Voting Rights. In the season premiere, host the Rev. Kathy Walker leads a discussi...
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Episode 6: Addressing the Past
posted on Aug 6, 2021Season 1: Race and the News Media Episode 6: Addressing the Past In the Season One finale of “Roundtables on Race,” the Rev. Kathy Walker discusses news outlets that are examining their past and future, especially around race-related news co...
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Episode 5: The Audience
posted on Jul 16, 2021Season 1: Race and the News Media Episode 5: The Audience In this week’s episode of “Roundtables on Race,” the Rev. Kathy Walker hosts a conversation on the relationship between news media and us, the audience and the consumers of informati...
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Episode 4: Setting the Tone
posted on Jul 9, 2021Season 1: Race and the News Media Episode 4: Setting the Tone In this episode of "Roundtables on Race," host the Rev. Kathy Walker explores the media's role and responsibility in "setting the tone," especially in respect to potential conversation...
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Episode 3: Representation in the Newsroom
posted on Jul 1, 2021Season 1: Race and the News Media Episode 3: Representation in the Newsroom In this episode of "Roundtables on Race," host the Rev. Kathy Walker discusses representation in the newsroom and the difference it makes in reporting. She is joined by t...
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Episode 2: The Making of a Journalist
posted on Jun 25, 2021Season 1: Race and the News Media Episode 2: The Making of a Journalist In this episode of "Roundtables on Race," host the Rev. Kathy Walker explores training and what goes in to the making of a journalist. She's joined by two guests who have a ...
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Episode 1: A Look at History
posted on Jun 25, 2021Season 1: Race and the News Media Episode 1: A Look at History Welcome to Roundtables on Race, the podcast that seeks to explore the relationship between race and the many facets of our society. With your host, the Rev. Kathy Walker, we’re exci...
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Pilot Episode
posted on Jun 18, 2021Welcome to "Roundtables on Race," the podcast that seeks to explore the relationship between race and the many facets of our society. In our pilot episode, we explore how to have difficult conversations no matter what the topic. Host the Rev. Kat...
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Season 3 Preview: Finding Foundations
posted on Feb 22, 2021Welcome to Season 3 of And Also With Y'all! We're excited to bring you a new theme: Finding Foundations. Why "Finding Foundations"? Because when you find yourself in the front half of life, you find yourself in (fill in the blank). When faced with...
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Checking in with the Curates, Part 2
posted on Jan 14, 2021In this episode, we check in with Mawethu Ncaca as part 2 of "checking in with the curates." Mawethu opens up about his spiritual landscape growing up in South Africa. We caught up on how life has been in ministry during the pandemic and what keep...
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Checking in with the Curates, Part 1
posted on Jan 4, 2021What is a "curate"? In this episode, Caleb and James catch up with Amanda and Philip - two of the three folks in the Reimagining Curacies program. They currently serve parishes in Chapel Hill and Durham. More info on the program can be found at: h...
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Bonus Episode: James Wrote a Book!
posted on Aug 29, 2020Caleb turns the tables on James and interviews him about the recent book Belovedness: Finding God (and Self) on Campus, which he co-wrote. They briefly walk through the chapters and talk about the implications of "belovedness" - what it means and ...
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