Episcopal GBEC

12/02/2026

Four days of collaboration with wonderful dedicated GOE evaluators at Trinity Center February 9-12:

06/01/2026

Please hold in your prayers all of those sitting for the General Ordination Examination this week and all of those evaluating the answers in the weeks to come:

God, you have given me every good and perfect gift, and you are generous without finding fault.
Help me to stay calm as I answer GOE questions and while I await the results. Stay with me, and help me to know the wisdom
that comes from heaven, through Jesus Christ your Son. Amen.

03/01/2025

Please join the General Board of Examining Chaplains and its stafff and volunteers in lifting up in prayer all those who are taking the General Ordination Examination today, tomorrow and Monday.

26/06/2024

09/03/2024

04/03/2024

Recently a parish in Henderson, Kentucky, announced that it was looking for a Rector and candidly admitted that they had no applicants. People weighed in

02/01/2024

Please uplift in your prayers all of those sitting for the General Ordination Examination today, tomorrow and Friday.

05/10/2023

At the 53rd Annual Meeting of the General Board of Examining Chaplains of The Episcopal Church October 3-6 at Trinity Center on the Southern Outer Banks at Pine Knoll Shores, NC

01/10/2023

Dear personal friend and longtime GBEC friend and former chair Len Johnson died Tuesday at his home in California and we will miss him deeply.

We are very sad to learn that our colleague and friend Len Johnson died on September 26. Len was a specialist in Late Medieval and 16th-century literature. Below is an obituary prepared by Len's close friend, the Rev. Thaddeus Bennett.

16/03/2023

We are grateful to Saint Stephen’s Episcopal Church for our Charleston, SC address.

St. Stephen's, founded in 1822 as a racially integrated congregation, was the first Episcopal church in the United States to offer free pews (other Episcopal churches either sold or leased them), and is a contributing property to the Charleston Historic District. The crooked cross on top of the church - which Hurricane Hugo blew askew but not down - represents Saint Stephen’s history and mission of inclusivity and radical welcome and symbolizes that amid the gales of the world the people of Saint Stephen’s stand strong with love for all.

16/03/2023

An insightful and fun article about our GBEC board member Hugh Page:

Hugh Page, current vice president for institutional transformation and an advisor to the president, described his life as “a call to service” in an interview with The Observer. Page was raised as a member of the Baptist church while growing up in Baltimore. He went to a Presbyterian seminary fir...