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David Paulsen

David Paulsen writes for Episcopal News Service.

1,100 mile 'Camino' across Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin to focus on 'migrant, climate and racial justice'

Episcopalians in the Diocese of San Joaquin embarked April 22 on a 22-day tour of the central California diocese to draw awareness to the intersections ...

April 25, 2023

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Episcopal Church presses gun manufacturer to study lethality

The Episcopal Church on June 1 was part of a successful push by shareholders of gun manufacturer Sturm, Ruger & Co....

June 13, 2022

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Episcopal Church webinar marks 20 years of Guantanamo Bay human rights ‘disaster’

Twenty years ago, the first detainees arrived at the United States detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as part of the Bush administration’s war on terror, launched in 2001 in response to th...

January 24, 2022

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DC church gets full Lego treatment as parishioner pairs faith, hobby

In Matthew Taylor’s imagination, St. John’s Episcopal Church is about 45 inches long and 24 inches high....

September 6, 2021

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Episcopal congregation builds Holy Land app for virtual pilgrimages

This winter, hundreds of Episcopalians embarked on a walking pilgrimage around the Holy Land without ever having to set foot outside their neighborhoods—thanks to an app built by St....

January 11, 2021

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Episcopal seminary that benefited from slavery creates reparations fund

Virginia Theological Seminary took what appears to be an unprecedented step by announcing that it has set aside $1.7 million for a slavery reparations fund—something considered but not yet enacted ...

September 19, 2019

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David Boase, Episcopal priest, fights deporation order

Boase, who is English, mistakenly voted once after a driver’s licensing employee offered him a registration form.

October 26, 2018

Sioux Episcopalians offering prayers of the people

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Episcopal Church backs new Lakota translation of prayer book

Funding liturgical translations also helps preserve indigenous languages at risk of being lost.

October 5, 2018

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South Dakota church offers forgiveness to youths who started fire in building

The temperature was below zero the night three stranded youths broke into the church hall and burned hymnals and furniture.

March 8, 2018

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Closed New York church finds new life as center for farmworkers

Agricultural laborers often work long hours without overtime or paid days off. They're part of running a new center in Long Island to advocate for their rights.

December 20, 2017

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Food truck ministry creates sacred space outside church

In the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, Abundant Harvest ministry near Houston has increased its efforts to feed people and foster community.

December 19, 2017

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Collars on the Corner offers prayers on the streets of Milwaukee

Ecumenical clergy reach their neighbors where they are—outside of church buildings.

July 28, 2017

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St. Louis Episcopalians act against gun violence as homicide rate spikes

St. Louis is being called America’s murder capital after a recent spike in gun violence, making the city the site of more killings per capita than any other major U.S. city....

April 7, 2017

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Joshua Case leads ministry for today's holy innocents

When Joshua Case and parishioners at Holy Innocents’ Episcopal Church bury some of Atlanta’s youngest victims of violence, they often do so alone....

December 6, 2016