Starting today, Bishop Jennifer will lead a diocesan book study of Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. “It’s a story that I identified with immediately,” says Bishop Jennifer in her video introduction. “What does it mean to leave your home circumstances and return to find that things are not […]
Dear Ones, As a diocese, a state and a country, we are entering an intense new phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. As many of you know, the coronavirus has reached into my own family, and I know it has touched the lives of people across our diocese. Harrison and I are both grateful for the […]
Bishop Jennifer gave this sermon to the 183rd Annual Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis on November 7, 2020. Read the full text below: Good afternoon Saints! Things are a little different since we last gathered for the Convention of the Diocese of Indianapolis. My last words to you as we neared the end […]
In its first ever online meeting, Diocesan Convention passed two antiracism resolutions, approved a $3.5 million budget and revised its constitution to enfranchise an eight-member youth delegation. The convention also passed numerous canonical changes to make diocesan structures more efficient and responsive, and made Project Home Indy, which works with teen mothers and their children, […]
Bishop Jennifer in 2019 with students at St. Andres in Mithon, Haiti, where the diocese supports a school. The Global Mission Commission has launched an urgent fundraising effort on behalf of our companions in the Diocese of Haiti and the Diocese of Brasilia, which have been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic. Now through November […]
Pedro Andrade with his wife, Jessica Rosa, and their sons, Agata and Henrique Dear ones, I am sorry to share the news that Pedro Henrique Correia Andrade, son of our dear friend Bishop Maurício Andrade of the Anglican Diocese of Brasília, died unexpectedly today after a long illness. Pedro was a leader in the church in Brazil, […]