The Episcopal Diocese of New York

Including video contributions from College Chaplains and Deacons For more details on these meetings, please visit https://dioceseny.org/ednyevent/244th-diocesan-convention-2/. #episcopalny

Bishop Shin's Video Meditation for the Seventh Week after Pentecost. https://vimeo.com/edny/aksp7

What to the Slave is the Fourth of July A Video recorded at the Frederick Douglass Circle in New York City, from the #episcopalurbancaucus On July 5, 1852 Frederick Douglass delivered this speech in Rochester, NY. ... The speech, What to the Slave is the Fourth of July," is one of Douglass’ most iconic and thought-provoking presentations and remains a source of critical conversation in our country today. This video of excerpts of the speech was recorded at the Frederick Douglass Circle in New York City. We invite you to listen, reflect and take action in your communities.

Bishop Glasspool's Meditation for the 6th Week of Pentecost https://vimeo.com/edny/mdg78

Bishop Shin's Video Meditation for the Fourth Week after Pentecost https://vimeo.com/edny/aks624

Bishop Dietsche's Latest Video Meditation https://vimeo.com/edny/ad610

Our Bishops respond to the President's use of St. John's Lafayette Square as a political prop. Bishops Dietsche, Shin and Glasspool wrote today as follows; Dear Brothers and Sisters,... We write to express our love and support of the Right Reverend Mariann Budde, Bishop of Washington, and the Most Reverend Michael Curry, the Presiding Bishop, in their outrage at the President’s use of Saint John’s Lafayette Square, a landmark Episcopal Church in Washington, as a background prop, having just cleared an entirely peaceful demonstration with mounted police, as he called for the deployment of the military to end the protests in cities across our country. The sanctuaries of the Episcopal Church are dedicated and consecrated to the service and worship of God, and to house the altar of the Holy Eucharist and the pulpit of Gospel proclamation and the font of Holy Baptism, as well as the gathering center for the faith community. They are places where only love may reign, only peace be sought, and only justice be desired. We are confident that the leaders of our church in Washington would have been happy to meet the President at Saint John’s and pray with him for our country, for the lost, for the grieving, for the long-suffering, and for all those who never weary of striving for the birth of the Beloved Community, had he asked. We are confident that they would have been happy to tell the president that he is prayed for in all of our churches every Sunday, as we ask God to grace him with wisdom, courage, and humility for his high calling. We are, though, unprepared for our sacred sites to be appropriated to other and political purposes, just as we were unprepared for a speech so filled with recrimination, so punishing, and so uncomprehending of the depth of the pain and suffering across the country he was elected to lead. We are grateful for the leadership of our sister Mariann in Washington, and grieve the burdens which these times are requiring of us all - burdens of Christian love and ministry and proclamation under adversity - which we in New York know only too well, and share with the bishop and clergy and people of Washington and all across our church. In faith, +Andy The Right Reverend Andrew ML Dietsche Bishop of New York +Allen The Right Reverend Allen K Shin Bishop Suffragan of New York +Mary The Right Reverend Mary D Glasspool Bishop Assistant of New York Pdf here: https://files.constantcontact.com//779c7aa7-91cb-42e9-b174

The Beloved Community Faces White Supremacy the Bishops respond to recent events. June 1, 2020 Our Dear Brothers and Sisters,...Continue reading

An article from the Spring 2018 "Stewardship of the Environment" issue of the ENY, by Dr. Peter Daszak, whose organization, EcoHealth Alliance, recently had its $3.3 million grant withdrawn for no stated reason by the National Institutes of Health. EcoHealth Alliance has been in the forefront of research into, and education about, diseases transferred from animals to humans, and its only apparent sin was to have worked with the lab in Wuhan which is absurdly accused of having manufactured the covid-19 virus. Daszak was the subject of a 60 Minutes report last weekend. http://www.evergreeneditions.com/publication/ #ecohealth

Bishop Dietsche on the Cathedral Close, April 28. Photos by the Rev. David M. Rider.

Sound and entertaining advice/commentary on our digital life together from the Rev. Julie Hoplamazian, associate rector of Manhattan's St. Michael's Church, https://youtu.be/SKMSz_Kg9uc

The statement of faith [demanded by Samaritan’s Purse] would have made it impossible for non-Christians to work in the cathedral, [Bishop Dietsche] said [to NYT reporter Liam Stack]. It would also have required Episcopalians to repudiate all the good work that’s been done in the Diocese of New York around the full inclusion of gay and lesbian people. Most of the members of my own churches in the Diocese of New York would not have been able to sign off on that creedal statement and would therefore not be invited or permitted to participate in that ministry inside their own cathedral, the bishop said. https://www.nytimes.com//franklin-graham-samaritans-purse-

Bishop Glasspool's Meditation for the Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter. https://vimeo.com/edny/mdg-easter4