(St. Mark’s Episcopal Church press release) St. Mark’s Episcopal Church and the Town of Port Royal have signed an agreement for St. Mark’s to purchase historic Union Church from the town. The church is located at 1011 11th Avenue. St. Mark’s, the only Episcopal Church north of the Broad River in Beaufort County, has been meeting at…

UPDATED MAY 22 with new links… scroll down Whether you woke up early Saturday to watch the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle live, or you didn’t tune in at all, chances are you’ve heard people talking about Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s passionate wedding homily, heard by billions around the world on…

The City of Charleston held its first Blessing of the Bikes on Saturday, May 12, and several Episcopal clergy spent the morning in Hampton Park offering blessings for bicycles and those who ride them. A brief service was led by the Rev. Laura Everett, the Executive Director of the Massachusetts Council of Churches and author…

Updated on May 19, 2018:Watch the Presiding Bishop’s sermon hereWatch Presiding Bishop Curry and Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby speaking together before the wedding: Video People in our diocese are joining with Episcopalians across the Church in excited anticipation of hearing Presiding Bishop Michael Curry preach to a worldwide audience this Saturday at the royal wedding…

The Reverend Canon John Coming Ball, Jr., 95, died April 26 at the Bishop Gadsden retirement community.  Born in Summerville on April 26, 1923, Canon Ball was ordained in 1958 by Bishop Thomas N.Carruthers, and served at Christ Church, Denmark; St. Alban’s, Blackville; and Holy Apostles, Barnwell. He also served in the Diocese of Atlanta from 1961-1976 and the Diocese of…

Pamela Guess, a member of Christ Church Denmark and coordinator of the Changing Hearts and Minds Ministry of the Southern Deanery, was honored as Volunteer of the Year at the Estill Federal Correctional Institution on April 4, 2018. Estill FCI is a medium security federal correctional institution with an adjacent minimum security satellite campus, with…

The Episcopal way of worship has a framework and structure that can help all kinds of people make a deeper connection to God, scholar and author Derek Olsen says. But in order to invite people to experience that, he says, we have to understand it ourselves – and our Book of Common Prayer gives us…

More than 300 delegates, visitors and guests representing the 31 congregations of our diocese and friends from across the Church gathered at All Saints Episcopal Church on Hilton Head Island November 10-11 for the 227th Diocesan Convention of The Episcopal Church in South Carolina. The theme of the Convention was “The Wisdom of the Body,”…

On August 17, The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd hosted “Summerville Stands in Unity,” a vigil for Heather Heyer, for the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, and for the terrorist attack in Barcelona. Organized by students in the congregation, the service included prayers and music. A bake sale and free-will donations raised about $1,500, which was donated to the Charleston NAACP and the Jewish Federation of Charleston.  A local TV report on the vigil is here, and the Summerville Journal-Scene also published an…

From July 30-August 9, the Ven. Calhoun Walpole led a group of pilgrims to Spain to walk the final stage of the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage road. The “Camino de Santiago,” as it is popularly known, has been a pilgrimage road traveled by Christians for well over a thousand years. The trip began in Madrid, after which the pilgrims traveled by bus to the town of Sarria where…

New deacon reflects on summer program at Canterbury Cathedral The Reverend Jason Roberson, Deacon and Curate at Holy Cross Faith Memorial in Pawleys Island, spent the first two weeks of June at Canterbury Cathedral in England. He participated in the annual Anglican Scholars Pilgrimage program in residence at the Canterbury Cathedral Lodge, forming part of a…