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06/24/2026

Take Action: https://www.votervoice.net/EPISCOPAL/Campaigns/138122/Respond

Humanitarian conditions in Cuba continue to deteriorate. Across the island, essential systems, including healthcare, electricity, water, and food distribution, are close to collapse. The crisis is exacerbated by U.S. sanctions and restrictions on fuel and supplies, including food, water, and medicine.

For decades, The Episcopal Church has called for an end to the U.S. embargo on Cuba, emphasizing the need to preserve access to food, medicine, and other critical supplies. At the same time, the church has also called for good governance, freedom of speech, and affirmation of human rights, including the release of political prisoners held by Cuba and protection of peaceful advocates engaging for political change.

There are ways Congress can step up now to help the Cuban people while continuing to push the U. S. government to uphold human rights for all. Contact your members of Congress today and urge them to support legislation that alleviates the humanitarian crisis for the Cuban people, prevents unauthorized military action, and helps address human rights concerns in Cuba.

06/24/2026

Our Pride Month spotlight continues with a woman who made history so quietly that many people still don't know her name.

In January 1977, Ellen Barrett was ordained as a priest by Bishop Paul Moore Jr. of the Diocese of New York, becoming the first openly gay or le***an person ordained in any mainline Protestant denomination in the United States. Barrett had previously served as president of Integrity, the organization for LGBTQ+ Episcopalians founded by Louie Crew Clay. Her ordination came just three years after women were first ordained as Episcopal priests -- meaning the church was already in the middle of one enormous argument and decided to have another one simultaneously. The controversy was real and the pushback significant, but the door she opened has never closed.

06/24/2026

Union of Black Episcopalians Annual Conference

HOTEL DISCOUNT DEADLINE

Attendees wishing to secure the discounted conference hotel rate must complete their reservation by:

RESERVATION DEADLINE

July 3, 2026
at Midnight

Rooms are available at the exclusive UBE Annual Conference rate only while the room block remains open.

Reservations made after this date will be subject to standard hotel pricing and availability.

BOOK YOUR ROOM TODAY —
DO NOT MISS THIS DEADLINE

UBE Annual Conference 2026

For hotel booking information UBE website: www.ube.org

06/24/2026

🌈BATON ROUGE PRIDE FEST 🌈
Join The Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana for an air conditioned celebration of all God's people. Enjoy fellowship, joy, and community -- we'd love to see you there.

🗓️Saturday, June 27
🕛 Noon - 5:00 PM
Raising Canes River Center Arena
275 S River Rd, Baton Rouge 70802

🌟Look for the Inclusive Louisiana table!

Questions? Fr. Tommy Dillon – [email protected]

06/24/2026

Our Pride Month spotlight continues with a bishop who waited until retirement to tell the truth - and then never stopped.

Otis Charles served as Bishop of Utah from 1971 to 1985. In 1993, several years into his retirement, he came out publicly as a gay man, becoming one of the first Episcopal bishops to do so. The timing tells its own story about what it cost to be honest, even at the top of the church hierarchy. After coming out, Charles remained active in advocacy for LGBTQ+ inclusion in the church for the rest of his life. Courage doesn't have an expiration date, even when it arrives later than we might wish.

06/24/2026

Inside Washington National Cathedral is one of the most unexpected details in American church history: a real piece of the moon.

The Cathedral’s famous Space Window, officially known as the Scientists and Technicians Window, was created to honor the people behind the Apollo 11 mission. At the center of the window is a small sliver of lunar rock collected during Apollo 11 and presented to the Cathedral by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins in 1974, five years after the first moon landing.

Faith, science, history, and art all meeting in one window.

06/24/2026

The nine small crosses in the blue section represent the nine original diocese that gathered in Philadelphia in 1789 to help formally organize the Episcopal Church in the United States
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