Joint Nominating Committee for Election of Presiding Bishop issues report, announces Twitter, Facebook links by The Episcopal Church, Office of Public Affairs The Episcopal Church Joint Nominating Committee for the Election of the Presiding Bishop has provided the following information after its inaugural meeting November 12-14. _______________________________________________________________ The Members of the Joint Nominating Committee for the Election of the Presiding Bishop (JNCPB) were elect...

"Bono, Facebook and the Challenge of Following the Jesus of the Poor" by Kristi York Wooten and Joshua Case for the Huffington Post Neither scholars nor pastors across any tradition will give you a straight answer on what Jesus would do with the kind of wealth Bono has accumulated. And let's be clear, neither the power nor politics of Jesus' day would have afforded even the idea that there would be such inherited or shared wealth 2000 years later among the descendants of the small sect of Jews w...

"Unapologetically Episcopalian Campaign aims to transform the Church" by Forward Movement Publications In two years, just over 20,000 people have become fans of Unapologetically Episcopalian on Facebook. The group's founder, the Rev. Ron Pogue says, "I wanted to create a space for people to express their gratitude for the Episcopal Church and what God is doing in our churches." As Pogue puts it, “It was time to change the conversation from one of fear to one of hope, from rancor to gratitude.” T...

"More Congregations Turn to Facebook, Web, High-tech Outreach" By Cathy Lynn Grossman, USA Today FACT's national survey of 11,077 of the nation's 335,000 congregations, released in March, found seven in 10 U.S. congregations had websites, and four in 10 had Facebook pages by 2010, Thumma says. The use of QR codes is too new to be measured yet, Thumma says.