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Deacon Ordination
This page outlines the three-year process by which the call to ordination as a vocational deacon is discerned, formed, supported, and endorsed in the Diocese of North Carolina. Please send all documentation listed in this process to Patricia Saraz...Read More ›
Digital Disciple General Terms and Conditions
1. GENERAL By installing the App (as defined below), you agree to be bound by these terms of use (the "Terms of Use"). Please review them carefully before installation and/or acceptance. 2. DEFINITIONS The "App" shall mean the Episcopal Diocese o...Read More ›
Diocesan Alcohol Policy
The Episcopal Church considered the appropriate role of alcohol in our shared life together at the 78th General Convention. The following resolution represents the recommended policy for consideration. We intend to follow these policies at all dio...Read More ›
Diocesan Council
Diocesan Council is an elected body which conducts the affairs of the diocese between conventions. Duties of the Diocesan Council, outlined in D-III.3, are: (a) Assist the Bishop and Bishop Coadjutor, if there be one, in planning and developing t...Read More ›
Diocesan Cycle of Prayer
The following Diocesan Cycle of Prayer was printed in the 2024-2025 Gospel-Based Discipleship and is available here for worship-planning purposes. Download a copy of the 2024-2025 Gospel-based Discipleship.. 2024 Sunday, Dec. 1 The An...Read More ›
Diocesan Gun Policy
The Diocese of North Carolina declares its office properties, specifically the offices in Raleigh (200 West Morgan Street), gun-free zones. No guns concealed or otherwise are allowed on the premises. We believe this policy is in keeping with the...Read More ›
Diocese of Botswana
Dumela! Greetings! The Diocese of North Carolina and the Anglican Diocese of Botswana entering into a companion link agreement at North Carolina’s diocesan convention early in 2008. The dioceses renewed the agreement in November 2014. During ...Read More ›
Discerning a Call
From the Rt. Rev. Samuel Rodman, XII Bishop of North Carolina In the Diocese of North Carolina, we are seeking to be a community of disciples committed to following Jesus Christ into God's dream for us and for all creation. We seek to be a missi...Read More ›
Discerning a Call to the Diaconate
Did you ever think you might be called to “a special ministry of servanthood directly under your bishop,” to serve “all people, particularly the poor, the weak, the sick, and the lonely,” to “show Christ’s people that in serving the he...Read More ›
Dismantling Racism, Youth Edition
The youth ministry department will offer Dismantling Racism to high school youth in our Diocese this fall. The curriculum will be offered as a hybrid in-person/online course beginning on Saturday, October 17. This curriculum comes from the Absalom...Read More ›
Donate
To help giving efforts to support diocesan initiatives and alleviate financial concerns in and around our churches and missions, the Diocese has launched a single-point online giving resource. With this link, you can select where you would like yo...Read More ›
DYC: Diocesan Youth Council
The Diocesan Youth Council is a group of youth and adults from the seven different convocations in the Diocese of North Carolina appointed by the Bishop to govern all the youth programs in the diocese. The Diocesan Youth Council is a selected g...Read More ›
Ecumenical and Interfaith Partners
As part of our commitment to collaboration, the Diocese and its churches work frequently with faith communities from across the Christian Church and other religious traditions. CHRIST'S BELOVED COMMUNITY (COMUNIDAD AMADA DE CRISTO) Christ's Bel...Read More ›
Education for Ministry Mentor Training and Resources
GATHERINGS FOR MENTORS Join your fellow mentors and co-mentors from across the Diocese for our bimonthly EfM forum. This is a great opportunity to connect and share; we hope this event will strengthen our EfM community and provide resources and ...Read More ›
EFM Groups in the Diocese of North Carolina
Summer is the usual time of year when Education for Ministry (EfM) groups enroll for the fall, and most begin in the fall. If you’ve been thinking about beginning this enriching curriculum of study and reflection, please contact a mentor in your...Read More ›
Emergency Communications
While we will always continue to hope for clear skies and sunny days, the reality is the geographic region of the Diocese of North Carolina will continue to face severe weather threats. One consolation amongst the worry and preparation is that our...Read More ›
Episcopal Partners
Episcopal Church Women The Episcopal Church Women (ECW) of the Diocese of North Carolina are part of the ministry and fellowship of all women of the Church. The diocesan ECW in North Carolina has been a unique presence for more than a century an...Read More ›
Disciple: Being the Church in Community
posted on Dec 22, 2021How congregations are connecting with their neighbors in novel ways When the vestry of Trinity, Fuquay-Varina, asked Karen Teague to head up the church’s participation in the town’s annual Celebrate Fuquay-Varina Festival during the first w...
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Disciple: Living into Christmas
posted on Dec 22, 2021[Image: The dwelling of the Word among us is a much more compelling and challenging aspect of Christmas to celebrate than the birth of a child—and not something one can express through decorations.] Most of my neighbors love to decorate for ...
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Disciple: Picnic Blankets, Porch Drop-Offs and Costumes
posted on Dec 22, 2021Children’s ministry in a pandemic The miracle of Christmas is near, and the excitement is in the air! Can you feel it? We are all preparing for the arrival of God as a human baby. I wonder what your children’s ministry has in store to sh...
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Disciple: Gracious Hosts
posted on Dec 22, 2021When the Dispatch of Business team decided that, due to discouraging COVID-19 trends, it was prudent to move the legislative portion of the 206th Annual Convention online, they also realized a need to be in the same space—not only because of the...
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CAMINANDO WITH JESUS: Children of Light
posted on Dec 22, 2021In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being through him, and without him not one thing came into being. What has come into being in him was life, and ...
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Disciple: Ye Holy Angels Bright, Assist Our Song
posted on Dec 22, 2021The following is adapted from the sermon delivered by the Rt. Rev. Sam Rodman during the Opening Eucharist at the 206th Annual Convention on November 20, 2021. “Soon and very soon, we’re going to see the King.” The spiritual by Andraé Cr...
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Disciple: New, Notable & Newsworthy
posted on Dec 22, 2021Toni Hagerman Announces Retirement Earlier this fall, executive director of Galilee Ministries of East Charlotte Toni Hagerman announced her retirement. She served the ministry for six years, helping it grow from its infancy into the thriving mi...
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Disciple: The 206th Annual Convention Recap
posted on Dec 22, 2021When the time came to make the decision on whether to hold the 206th Annual Convention in person, the stars weren’t aligning quite well enough to move forward. Positive COVID-19 rates were trending up, and vaccination rates had plateaued wi...
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Disciple: Mission Strategy: Next Steps
posted on Dec 22, 2021Throughout the summer, the Mission Strategy Task Force shared the work of the team to date. The goals, the strategies and the theology that comprise the mission strategy were presented via video and shared with clergy and lay leaders, in special �...
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Disciple: A Sure Foundation in Uncertain Times
posted on Dec 22, 2021So then, you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the...
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Disciple: Preach It!
posted on Dec 22, 2021The Lay Preaching Training Initiative enters next phase “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God…. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.” - John 1:1, 14 In the prologue of John’s Gospel, ...
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CAMINANDO WITH JESUS: Leaping for Joy
posted on Dec 17, 2021In those days Mary set out and went with haste to a Judean town in the hill country, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the child leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled wit...
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Diocese Gives Thanks for the Ministry of the Rev. Amanda Bourne
posted on Dec 17, 2021The Diocese of North Carolina gives thanks for the ministry of the Rev. Amanda Bourne, curate of the Reimagining Curacies program. Bourne was one of the first participants of the pilot program and served at Chapel of the Cross, Chapel Hill, and St...
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CAMINANDO WITH JESUS: What Then Should We Do?
posted on Dec 11, 2021John said to the crowds that came out to be baptized by him, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruits worthy of repentance. Do not begin to say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our ancestor'; for I tell yo...
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Updated: Boy Scouts of America Bankruptcy Filing Affects Churches, File for Protection Against Claims Today
posted on Dec 9, 2021Updated: December 9, 2021 Please read the following notice from diocesan legal counsel: "Out of an abundance of caution, on November 16, 2020, the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina (the “Diocese”) filed generalized, protective proofs of cl...
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CAMINANDO WITH JESUS: Heeding the Prophets
posted on Dec 3, 2021In the fifteenth year of the reign of Emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea, and Herod was ruler of Galilee, and his brother Philip ruler of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias ruler of Abilene, during the hig...
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Meet St. Martin's, Charlotte
posted on Dec 3, 2021There is noise – A LOT of NOISE - around St. Martin’s, Charlotte, these days. Good Noise for Good News. Whether it’s a busy Sunday in the courtyard, banging in the bathrooms or preschoolers laughing outside, there is now noise, and it is g...
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Bishops of the Diocese of North Carolina Respond to Recent Shooting in Michigan
posted on Dec 1, 2021We mourn with the nation about news of another school shooting, this time in Michigan. While details are yet unknown, at least three have been killed and more injured. An investigation may offer motive and context for the event, but no explanat...
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CAMINANDO WITH JESUS: For a World About to Be Born
posted on Nov 23, 2021Jesus said: “There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on the earth distress among nations confused by the roaring of the sea and the waves. People will faint from fear and foreboding of what is coming upon the world, for the ...
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Bishops of the Diocese of North Carolina Respond to Rittenhouse Verdict
posted on Nov 22, 2021"[God] has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" Micah 6:8 The verdict in the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial has opened again for us the...
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RoR - Season 4, Episode 2: Judaism
posted on Mar 15, 2024Season 4: Race and Religion Episode 2: Judaism Sometimes a gift is even greater than can be known at the time it was given. Such is the case with this episode of “Roundtables on Race.” Recorded several weeks before her death on March 9, 202...
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RoR - Season 4, Episode 1: Hinduism
posted on Mar 8, 2024Season 4: Race and Religion Episode 1: Hinduism Season 4 of "Roundtables on Race" is taking a bit of a departure from its usual format. As we take a season-long look at "Race and Religion," each episode will feature a different faith tradition, e...
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RoR - Season 4, Bonus Episode: A Multicultural Christmas
posted on Dec 20, 2023Season 4: Race and Religion Bonus Episode: A Multicultural Christmas "Roundtables on Race" is back with a "Very Special Christmas" episode, when host the Rev. Kathy Walker is joined by friends and family to talk about the Christmas holidays and h...
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RoR - Season 3, Episode 10: Season Wrap-up
posted on Dec 20, 2023Season 3: Race and Education Episode 10: Season Wrap-up The Rev. Kathy Walker brings the season on race and education to a close with a look back at what we discussed, and a look ahead to what's coming next on "Roundtables on Race."
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RoR - Season 3, Episode 9: The Politics of Race and Education
posted on Sep 8, 2023Season 3: Race and Education Episode 9: The Politics of Race and Education It seems almost impossible to believe that education could be a political hot-button, but it has become just that. Or has it always been? Either way, the question that m...
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RoR - Season 3, Episode 8: Race and Faith-Based Schools
posted on Aug 25, 2023Season 3: Race and Education Episode 8: Race and Faith-Based Schools Given that this podcast is produced by the Episcopal Diocese of North Carolina, it didn’t seem right to have a season-long conversation around race and education without dis...
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RoR - Season 3, Episode 7: Curriculum and Texts (and a whole lot more)
posted on Aug 18, 2023Season 3: Race and Education Episode 7: Curriculum and Texts (and a whole lot more) One of the hotly debated topics of conversation around education these days is what is actually taught in schools. There is a lot of misinformation and error ar...
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RoR - Season 3, Episode 6: The Funding of Education
posted on Aug 4, 2023Season 3: Race and Education Episode 6: The Funding of Education When it comes to looking at race and education, especially its inequities and challenges, the conversation often becomes about the question of resources. And of course, when it co...
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RoR - Season 3, Episode 5: Race and Higher Education
posted on Jul 28, 2023Season 3: Race and Education Episode 5: Race and Higher Education In the year 2023, no season focusing on race and education would be complete without a conversation about the Supreme Court decision that dismantled affirmative action in college a...
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RoR - Season 3, Episode 4: The History of Black Education
posted on Jul 21, 2023Season 3: Race and Education Episode 4: The History of Black Education With all of the conversation around the teaching of racial history, little time is spent learning about the history of Black education. It is a rich and inspiring one, with ...
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RoR - Season 3, Episode 3: Teaching Racial History
posted on Jul 14, 2023Season 3: Race and Education Episode 3: Teaching Racial History Among the many arguments around race and education is the teaching of racial history – what is taught and not taught, how the subject of racial history is imparted to students, an...
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RoR - Season 3, Episode 2: Racism, Not Race
posted on Jul 7, 2023Season 3: Race and Education Episode 2: Racism, Not Race One of the ongoing arguments around race and education is about the teaching of race and racism. They’re often used as interchangeable terms in the course of conversation, so in this ep...
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RoR - Season 3, Episode 1: Critical Race Theory
posted on Jun 30, 2023Season 3: Race and Education Episode 1: Critical Race Theory "Roundtables on Race" is back for its third season! This time around we will look at the intersection of race and education, and in this first episode, we explore the one topic that has...
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Lent, Part 4: Disruption
posted on Apr 5, 2023Intro In the fourth and final episode of our Lenten series, Rabbi Raachel and Bishop Sam discuss reconciliation, the final step in the cycle of sacrifice, repentance, and forgiveness. They consider examples from both Jewish and Christian scripture...
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Lent, Part 3: An Invitation to Grace
posted on Mar 22, 2023In episode three of our Lenten series, Bishop Sam and Rabbi Raachel discuss the nature of forgiveness, both God’s infinite, all-encompassing forgiveness and the much more fraught nature of forgiveness within human relationships. They consider th...
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Lent, Part 2: Repairing Relationships
posted on Mar 8, 2023This episode is part two of our four-part Lenten series, and today we discuss a familiar concept for anyone who engages in the liturgical season of Lent: repentance. Rabbi Raachel and Bishop Sam both understand repentance not as a requirement to r...
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Lent, Part 1: Sacrifice or Offering?
posted on Feb 22, 2023Today we begin our four-part Lenten series with an exploration of sacrifice, or, as Rabbi Raachel teaches us, offerings, as the Hebrew of the Torah is more correctly translated. She and Bishop Sam dive deep into an exploration of sacrifice in the ...
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Episode 5: Speaking of the Psalms: Psalm 51
posted on Feb 15, 2023In this episode, Bishop Sam and Rabbi Raachel discuss one of the psalms that speaks most powerfully to Bishop Sam: Psalm 51. It is a plea for forgiveness attributed to King David after he is rebuked by the prophet Nathan for his role in another ma...
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Episode 6: Speaking of the Psalms: Psalm 145
posted on Feb 15, 2023In this episode, Rabbi Raachel and Bishop Sam return to the psalms and discuss Rabbi Raachel’s choice: Psalm 145. Starting from the question of does God need to be praised, and, if so, why, they explore the ideas of humility, awe, abundance, pra...
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Episode 4: Dialogues of Devotion
posted on Feb 8, 2023In this episode, Rabbi Raachel and Bishop Sam share their formative experiences of interreligious dialogue, from elementary school through college to their current thinking about conversations among followers of different faiths. Instead of seekin...
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