Summer is slow around here. Vestry is off duty, choir and church school are on hiatus and Father Perry and Donna are using much-deserved vacation time. Which means that the blog has been languishing. So I thought I’d liven things up a bit by posting some of the interesting tidbits I’ve come across as I surf the Web.

Today’s Episcopal fun fact is:

The Episcopal Church is an international one!
You may have heard that the church changed its name at General Convention this year. That’s not quite the case. The name of the church has officially been “The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America” since 1789. In 1967 a preamble was added to the Constitution stating in part that the PECUSA was

otherwise known as The Episcopal Church (which name is hereby recognized as also designating the Church)

The name of the church has since then often been abbreviated to ECUSA, but this does not reflect the fact that many of our dioceses are outside the US. There was a concerted effort at this year’s General Convention to remind church members and the press that “The Episcopal Church” or TEC is a more accurate name for the church as a whole.

written by AmyGee