PROVIDENCE, R.I. - As the electric guitar in the U2 anthem "Pride (In the Name of Love)" faded from four speakers, the Rev. Robert Brooks welcomed worshippers to Grace Episcopal Church with an unusual suggestion: He warned them to protect their hearing.

A funny thing happened on the way to Pastor Terry Marks teaching former Hindus in India on the art of Christian baptism.

Bishop Joseph Heistand, the third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Arizona, died Tuesday at his home in Richmond, Va., after a long illness. He was 84.

Bishop John Shelby Spong has been called the devil incarnate and the Antichrist — a clergyman and author vilified for pressing for modernity in the church and full acceptance of homosexuals.

NEW YORK -- The lesbian priest who was elected assistant bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles said Tuesday that she was upset by claims that her role in the church is divisive.

Katharine Jefferts Schori became the first woman elected as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States in 2006. But achieving that status, where she serves as chief pastor and primate to church members in 16 countries and 110 dioceses, wasn’t her toughest challenge. “I had a much harder time as a woman oceanographer. I think we’ve come a long way,” she said Friday during a visit to All Saints of the Desert Episcopal Church in Sun City.

Katharine Jefferts Schori became the first woman elected as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States in 2006. But achieving that status, where she serves as chief pastor and primate to church members in 16 countries and 110 dioceses, wasn’t her toughest challenge. “I had a much harder time as a woman oceanographer. I think we’ve come a long way,” she said Friday during a visit to All Saints of the Desert Episcopal Church in Sun City.

Katharine Jefferts Schori became the first woman elected as presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of the United States in 2006. But achieving that status, where she serves as chief pastor and primate to church members in 16 countries and 110 dioceses, wasn’t her toughest challenge. “I had a much harder time as a woman oceanographer. I think we’ve come a long way,” she said Friday during a visit to All Saints of the Desert Episcopal Church in Sun City.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - As the electric guitar in the U2 anthem ‘‘Pride (In the Name of Love)’’ faded from four speakers, the Rev. Robert Brooks welcomed worshippers to Grace Episcopal Church with an unusual suggestion: He warned them to protect their hearing.

The Paradise Valley church where the late Sen. Barry Goldwater worshipped and where his ashes are interred, where renowned broadcaster Hugh Downs was last Sunday’s lay leader, has worked out an agreement with Arizona’s Episcopal bishop to transfer pastoral oversight to a New Mexico bishop “whose views more closely reflect that of the parish.”

Arizona Episcopalians opposed to the election in August of an openly gay bishop in New Hampshire have formed the Arizona Anglican Council and are aligning with a new national network they believe adheres to biblical standards and Anglican traditions.

March 24, 2005

A Tempe Episcopal congregation has become the first in Arizona to sustain a major split over biblical authority and the controversial ordination of a gay bishop in New Hampshire.

The Episcopal Parish of St. Barnabas on the Desert takes its art very seriously. For its latest commission, stained-glass windows for a new music center, the Paradise Valley church sent out nearly 50 letters and reviewed the work of 20 artists.

The Episcopal Parish of St. Barnabas on the Desert takes its art very seriously.

As an Air Force prisoner of war in the rat infested "Hanoi Hilton" in North Vietnam, the Rev. Robert Certain recalls Ash Wednesday 1973. The prayers that day would be answered and he would be free by Easter.

September 1, 2004

Summer lightning that seared a hole in the roof of a Scottsdale church has cauterized wounds in its congregation inflicted by the ascension of the Episcopal Church's first gay bishop.