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Post-Election Email List | | Stay informed with Sojourners' new Truth and Action Roundup email, sent Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays leading up to Inauguration Day. The email, developed in partnership with Faiths United to Save Democracy and others, has launched This email list aims to share opportunities and serve as a credible source of election information while providing spiritual grounding on the road to Inauguration Day. | | | | NCC Remembers AME Retired Supervisor Rev. Dr. Cecelia Williams Bryant | | The Rev. Cecelia Williams Bryant, an African Methodist Episcopal Church bishop’s wife known for mentoring up-and-coming clergy and fostering prayer, died on Thursday (Sept. 26), her family announced. Bryant, 77, was the episcopal supervisor for the AME districts that her husband, now-retired Bishop John R. Bryant, oversaw. She also was the mother of the Rev. Jamal Bryant, pastor of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, a megachurch outside Atlanta, and the Rev. Thema Bryant, a Pepperdine University professor and former president of the American Psychological Association.
She lived in Baltimore, where she and her husband once served at Bethel AME Church for more than a dozen years, and was known for her support of women and as a model for ministers, men and women who eventually led churches individually or as co-pastors.
Please pray for the Bryant family in their time of bereavement.
Learn more about Rev. Dr. Williams Bryant's long tenure of faithful and impactful service here. | | | | | Anglican-Orthodox Theological Dialogue Celebrates 50 Years | | | | | | The annual Anglican-Orthodox Theological Dialogue drew Anglican Communion and Orthodox Church representatives from all over the world — from Europe to the Middle East, and from Africa to Australia.
The gathering convened at Hellenic College Holy Cross School of Theology for plenary meetings October 4–11. High-ranking bishops and theologians from many countries were in attendance, including Greece and Cyprus, Jerusalem and Antioch, as well as Romania and Georgia. The plenary meeting was hosted by the Huffington Ecumenical Institute at HCHC and held for the first time on the campus of HCHC.
A celebratory event on the evening of October 6, marked the only international celebration of the 50th anniversary of the dialogue. It was also the only event open to the public.
The International and Pan-Orthodox Dialogue between the Anglican Communion and the Orthodox Church is the oldest theological dialogue initiated and chaired by the Ecumenical Patriarchate since 1973 and includes all the Orthodox Churches. | | Huffington Ecumenical Institute Benefactor Visits Holy Cross Campus | | Mr. Michael Huffington, benefactor of the Huffington Ecumenical Institute (HEI), visited Holy Cross School of Theology on October 31. During his visit, Mr. Huffington had a meeting with President Demetri Katos and Rev. Gary Alexander, following which he also had an opportunity to see the progress made at the new HEI facility. | | NCCC 2024 Advent Guide: 'Hope Is Near' Now Available for Free Download | | As Advent begins, the First Sunday calls us into Hope. Hope isn’t the same as optimism. While optimism insists on silver linings, hope goes deeper, trusting in God’s presence even when outcomes seem bleak. Hope refuses to accept that what seems impossible to us is impossible for God. Where God is present, impossibility is absent.
This Advent season, may you find hope not in avoiding life’s challenges, but in seeing them within God’s vision of a transformed future. We at the North Carolina Council of Churches offer these devotions to turn your hearts toward the source of true hope, guiding you toward Christ’s coming promise. | | | Dr. Tyrone Pitts, Others Announced as 2025 Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference Honorees | NCC extends congratulations to Dr Tyrone Pitts, NCC Governing Board member, on being named a 2025 honoree at the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, Inc.! | | | | | Register Now for the Christian
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