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Title IV
We encourage you to visit TitleIV.org, the website developed by The Episcopal Church, for full information on the disciplinary process. Read the Title IV canons. Glossary of terms used What is Title IV? “Title IV is the section of t...Read More ›
To Differ Is Divine
To Differ is Divine is a podcast that invites both the curious and the skeptical to explore the idea of spiritual permeability through conversations between our hosts, Bishop Sam Rodman, the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, and R...Read More ›
Vestry Resources
If your congregation currently does not have a priest, uses supply clergy or is in transition, you might find some of the clergy resources helpful. Alcohol Policy: As of the 78th General Convention Annual Parish Meeting Guidelines Bylaw...Read More ›
Video Curricula
With the support of a grant from the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the former School of Ministry produced these courses for use in congregations, and are intended as a stimulus for adult group discussion. The brief programs, usually lasting between 12 ...Read More ›
Visitation Schedule
The visitation schedule is subject to change without notice. If you have any questions about your congregation's visitation, contact Elizabeth Dawkins, executive assistant to Bishop Sam Rodman, or Patricia Sarazen, executive assistant to Bishop...Read More ›
Voting, Voter and Engagement Resources
Though we hope this page will provide valuable information and resources to help you be ready to vote and engage in helping others to be ready, too, there is no better source of voting and voter information than the NC State Board of Elections. ...Read More ›
Way of Love
Excerpted from Practice That's Not About Perfection, But the Way of Love, by the Rt. Rev. Sam Rodman For me, the challenge to listen to hard truth, with love, and to speak hard truth, with love, is at the heart of what it means to become belove...Read More ›
Wear Orange
June is National Gun Violence Awareness Month, and traditionally, the first days of June encourage all who wish to see gun violence reduced to wear orange. This year, June 7 is National Gun Violence Awareness Day, and everyone is encouraged to w...Read More ›
What Can Words Do? Revising the Psalms in a God-awful Time
Using lectures by Dr. Ellen F. Davis, Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School, "What Can Words Do?" explores how we pray and speak truly in this unprecedented and grievous time. The questio...Read More ›
What You Need to Know About NC Voter ID Laws
Last updated: October 2, 2023 As of 2023, a valid photo ID is now required to vote in the state of North Carolina. 10 Things to Know About Voter ID The NC State Board of Elections has excellent resources to explain all you need to know...Read More ›
YEAH
Some say young adults have left the Church, but we think the Church has simply left the building. The Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina wants to help you find a community with which to connect, whether its a traditional young adult group at a ch...Read More ›
Youth & Young Adults
Children, Youth and FamiliesYoung Adults The vision of the diocesan children's and youth ministries department is to be a Christian community that reflects Christ's love and a place of acceptance of all people. The children's and youth ministry ...Read More ›
Youth Ministry Resources
During the last three years, the children's and youth ministries department of the Diocese of North Carolina has developed a practical and relevant resource for all those who work with children and youth. This best practices document includes matt...Read More ›
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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Disciple: New, Notable & Newsworthy
posted on Dec 6, 2023Diocese Announces New Location of Diocesan House The Diocese of North Carolina announces today the new location of Diocesan House. If all goes well with moving plans, as of January 1, 2024, the diocesan headquarters will be located at 4800 Six...
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Disciple: Advocacy as Evangelism
posted on Dec 6, 2023Transforming charity into justice By Aleta McClenney and the Rev. Sally Johnston [Image: During the March 15 Advocacy Day at the North Carolina General Assembly, members of the clergy rallied for affordable housing. Photo courtesy of the Rev....
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Disciple: It’s About Time
posted on Dec 6, 2023Your invitation to join a diocesan quest By the Rev. Canon Lindsey Ardrey Editor’s note: The following piece is adapted from the Rev. Canon Lindsey Ardrey’s address to the 208th Annual Convention. “Now there was a woman who had been s...
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Disciple: Seeing Jesus Through an Indigenous Lens
posted on Dec 6, 2023Jesus’ teachings and Indigenous world views have much in common By the Rev. Bradley Hauff Over the last few years, the wider world has begun to understand the abuses and injury done to Indigenous children forced to attend boarding schools, ...
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Disciple: The Feast of la Guadalupe
posted on Dec 6, 2023A festival of lived faith By the Rev. Canon Franklin Morales Editor’s note: This reflection is the first-ever article created in Spanish for the Disciple. While the English translation appeared in print, the original Spanish version is ...
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Disciple: The Value of Telling Our Stories
posted on Dec 6, 2023How personal stories enrich our history By the Rev. Canon Kathy Walker Telling stories is a time-honored tradition. Most of us are quite familiar with Jesus and his parables in the New Testament. Parables were stories told by Jesus in under...
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Disciple: Communion in the Laundromat
posted on Dec 6, 2023A simple question creates a sacred space through Laundry Love By the Rev. James Franklin “Can we pay for your laundry tonight?” Favorite. Question. Ever. It elicits a response that is either an excited and often emotional “thank you...
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Disciple: A Good Story
posted on Dec 6, 2023Sharing stories becomes a connection point for young adults By the Rev. Rick Sigler We all love a good story. It’s hard-wired in our psyche. Since the earliest humans walked God’s creation, we have listened to and told the stories that ...
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Disciple: Making a Place for the Community
posted on Dec 6, 2023How All Saints’, Warrenton, is building toward the future By Summerlee Walter Albert and Annie Burges started a day school in their Warrenton home to educate the community’s Black children at the end of the 19th century. The Rev. Willi...
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Disciple: Commitment, Connections and What They Do Best
posted on Dec 6, 2023St. Andrew’s, Rocky Mount, responds to a community in need after devastating tornadoes By Christine McTaggart At midday on July 19, an EF3 tornado touched down in Nash and Edgecombe Counties. With winds of up to 150 miles per hour, in on...
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Disciple: Extending the Eucharistic Table
posted on Dec 6, 2023The Advocate, Chapel Hill, keeps finding new ways to share space with the community By Summerlee Walter The Church of the Advocate, Chapel Hill, has always been about the creative use of space to serve its community. During its first 10...
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Disciple: Be Fierce
posted on Dec 6, 2023An Advent Meditation By Bishop Jennifer Brooke-Davidson Alleluia; he is coming; Alleluia; he is here! What will you make of Advent this year? Christmas comes, ready or not, on December 25. The world offers up many options for getting ...
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Disciple: The Second Advent
posted on Dec 1, 2023A Meditation on the First Sunday of Advent Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; t...
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The Rev. Susan Rebecca 'Becky' Michelfelder Called as Vicar of St. Cyprian's, Oxford
posted on Nov 30, 2023The Rev. Becky Michelfelder has been called as the new vicar of St. Cyprian's, Oxford. Michelfelder most recently served as the interim rector of Good Shepherd, Rocky Mount. She has served churches across the country in an interim capacity for mor...
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The Diocese Welcomes the Rev. Erika Takacs
posted on Nov 29, 2023The diocese welcomes the Rev. Erika Takacs as the interim rector of Good Shepherd, Asheboro. Takacs most recently served as the rector of the Church of the Atonement, Chicago, in the Diocese of Chicago. She earned her undergraduate degree from Wes...
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The Diocese Gives Thanks for the Ministry of the Rev. Sarah Blaies
posted on Nov 21, 2023The diocese gives thanks for the ministry of the Rev. Sarah Blaies, departing vicar of Christ Church, Cleveland. Blaies has served at Christ Church since 2011. We give thanks for her ministry and wish her Godspeed as she enters this new chapter of...
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The Diocese Welcomes the Rev. Fred McKelder Brown
posted on Nov 8, 2023The Diocese welcomes the Rev. Fred McKelder Brown, new rector of St. Bartholomew's, Pittsboro. Brown most recently served as the rector of St. James, Taos, New Mexico, in the Diocese of the Rio Grande. He earned his undergraduate degree from The U...
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The Diocese Gives Thanks for the Ministry of the Rev. Susan Keedy
posted on Nov 8, 2023The Diocese gives thanks for the ministry of the Rev. Susan Keedy, departing interim rector of St. Bartholomew's, Pittsboro. Gracious God, we thank you for the work and witness of your servant Susan, who has enriched this community and brought g...
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Bishops of the Diocese of North Carolina Share Presiding Bishop Michael Curry's Call to End Violence in Gaza
posted on Nov 7, 2023We join with Presiding Bishop Curry in raising our voices in love and grief to demand that the merciless killing of civilians in Gaza stop immediately, and that humanitarian relief be allowed to flow unimpaired, now. As a community of faith, we mu...
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Distancing Diaries: Season 1 Finale
posted on Aug 26, 2020Hosts, Eliza, Caleb and James recap distancing diaries, discuss themes and share favorite moments. AND they reveal plans for season 2!! Thanks for listening, and stay tuned for And Also with Y'all Season 2, beginning in October 2020!
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Distancing Diaries: Episode 7
posted on Aug 4, 2020Chaplain Caleb has a candid discussion with anthropologists Kristen Savell and Xandra Daniels about the difficult balancing act of higher education instruction, starting their careers and families, and managing anxiety within our present context o...
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Distancing Diaries: Episode 6
posted on Jul 20, 2020Co-host Eliza Brinkley chats with Lindsey and Don Porter, who have been figuring out how to parent two young children during school closures. As government and educational leaders begin to announce reopening plans for school in the fall--many of w...
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Distancing Diaries: Episode 5
posted on Jun 22, 2020Chaplain Caleb Tabor of Raleigh ECM and Chaplain Laura Brekke Wagoner of Davis and Elkins College touch on life during the pandemic, what it means to engage in self-examination in the spiritual life, the importance of an evolving faith, why religi...
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Distancing Diaries: Episode 4
posted on Jun 18, 2020In this episode of Distancing Diaries, Eliza Brinkley chats with Jack Kittrell, who is employed at a biomedical engineering company in Raleigh. Jack shares a little about his experience social distancing and what his schedule has been like as an e...
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Distancing Diaries: Episode 3
posted on Jun 4, 2020Chaplain Caleb Tabor of Raleigh Episcopal Campus and Young Adult Ministries has a conversation with Mary Houston, a licensed social worker for psychiatric emergencies in the UNC-CH Hospital's Emergency Medicine Department. They discuss what it is ...
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Distancing Diaries: Episode 2, Part 2
posted on May 19, 2020In this two-part episode, co-host Eliza checks in with fellow teacher, friend and roommate, Taylor. They speak of her religious upbringing and how her current faith community is guiding how she navigates life amidst social distancing. The lovely m...
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Distancing Diaries: Episode 2, Part 1
posted on May 19, 2020In this two-part episode, co-host Eliza checks in with fellow teacher, friend and roommate, Taylor. They speak of her religious upbringing and how her current faith community is guiding how she navigates life amidst social distancing. The lovely m...
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Distancing Diaries: Episode 1
posted on May 11, 2020Eliza Brinkley hosts the first episode of the And Also With Y'all mini-series, Distancing Diaries, in which she reflects on the spiritual dimenison of what it's like to be a young adult living during a time of physical distancing.
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Episode 3: Anna
posted on Mar 23, 2020In this episode, Anna, a young adult from Greensboro tells the story of the search for a spiritual home, how she found belonging through shared experiences and convictions, and her journey as an LGBTQ+ person who also loves Jesus.
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Episode 2: Caleb
posted on Feb 13, 2020The Rev. Caleb Tabor previously led a bilingual parish in eastern North Carolina and now leads Episcopal Campus Ministry-Raleigh.
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Episode 1: Ann
posted on Feb 12, 2020In this first episode, James spoke with Ann, a young adult in Charlotte, about finding community and wrestling with the question, "What does God want me to do with my life?" The conversation focused on Ann's experience of walking the Camino de San...
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Pilot: The 204th Annual Convention
posted on Feb 5, 2020In this pilot episode, recorded live at the 204th Annual Diocesan Convention, we spoke with college students from around the state. They reflected a portion of the young adult voice at convention and shared their opinions about diversity, Cosmic C...
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