Grace Episcopal Church Woodlawn

03/08/2026

02/08/2026

Glorious service this morning at Grace—come and discover the magic of Grace Church. Absolutely everyone is welcome—each Sunday morning at 10:30.

02/01/2026

We are excited to share that the Very Rev. Richard T. Lawson III, dean of Saint John's Cathedral, Denver , CO, has been elected the 13th diocesan bishop of Alabama during the special convention held today at the Cathedral Church of the Advent. He was elected on the first ballot, receiving 108 clergy votes and 184 lay votes.

In accordance with the canons of The Episcopal Church, all bishop elections must receive the consent of a majority of diocesan bishops and diocesan standing committees. Following a successful consent process, Lawson will be ordained and consecrated as bishop on Saturday, June 27, 2026, at the Cathedral Church of the Advent in Birmingham, by the Most Rev. Sean Rowe, presiding bishop of The Episcopal Church.

We give thanks for all those who have worked tirelessly in this bishop search process, and we ask for your continued prayers for the new Bishop-elect and our diocese during this time of transition.

11/04/2025

Tuesday, Proper 26
Morning Prayer
Adeline Blanchard Tyler and her Companions

The Commemoration
Adeline Blanchard Tyler (1805-1875) was the first Episcopal deaconess. Along with Caroline (Carrie) Elizabeth Guild (1827-1880), Eveline Black (1825-1875), and Catherine Minard (1837-1917), she was admitted to the office of deaconess on the 4th of November 1856.

They provided nursing care, religious and practical education, material support, and advocacy at the newly established St. Andrew's Infirmary in Baltimore. They cared for men, women, and children, Black and white, from near and far, and would become known as the United Deaconesses of Maryland.

The need for experienced nurses and hospital superintendents during the Civil War led Adeline to the Camden Street Hospital in Baltimore, where she ministered to both Union and Confederate soldiers with an evenhandedness that sparked accusations by some of being "a Rebel sympathizer."

Shortly thereafter, at the request of Dorothea Dix, she was placed in charge of the military hospital in Chester, Pennsylvania, where her colleagues included volunteer nurses from Maine and Massachusetts. They often had 1,000 men under their care.

By early 1863 Adeline was in charge of the military hospital at the former Naval Academy in Annapolis, again with members of the nursing cohort who had served at Chester.

She died on January 9, 1875.

A healthy dose of curiosity and a love of research has led a deacon to uncover information that revises accepted Episcopal Church history.

10/03/2025

[Episcopal News Service] London Bishop Sarah Mullally has been chosen as the next archbishop of Canterbury, becoming the first woman to serve in the historic leadership role for both the Church of …

09/12/2025

We have not lost our soul
A poem-prayer for awakening and transformation
Stuart Higginbotham
Sep 12, 2025

We have not lost our soul

It is just that our hands
are full, and we needed
to set something down
to hold all we felt
we needed to hold.

We made a choice
as to what we would worship,
and our knees have bent
to the idols we thought
would satisfy our yearning.

Our soul lies on the cool grass
while we dance with anger,
a partner who is never satisfied
until we are consumed,
leaving only ash.

The cruel spirits of rage and revenge,
whose thirst is never quenched,
have no temples for themselves,
but seek out the soft spaces
in our hearts that we must guard
so they never possess
that which is most precious.

Beware their acolytes who only seek
to fan flames of division
for their own profit.

Yet each leaf that rustles,
each crow that calls,
each stranger that smiles
is an invitation to pause
and love once more.

The soul is a muscle
that connects us to everyone
at once, and it must be
strengthened over time
lest we forget who we are.

The paradox is the only way
to make our soul stronger
is to yield our grasp
and listen to Wisdom’s song,
resting in the embrace
that holds all life together.

The Spirit speaks once more:
I set before you life and death.
Choose life.