Worship
This is the name for the person who carries the cross at the front of the procession in worship.
What is the crucifer?
This monarch named himself Supreme Head of the Church of England, a title Parliament granted him after Rome wouldn't grant him annulment for his marriage.
Who is King Henry VIII?
This generation, born roughly 2010 to 2025, is projected to be the first in U.S. history where no single racial or ethnic group makes up more than half the population.
What is Gen Alpha?
This Presbyterian minister and television host recently had a stained glass window installed in his honor at Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburg?
Who is Mr. Rodgers?
On the 3rd Sunday of Advent, rose-colored vestments may replace purple as a a reminder that even a season of waiting can hold real joy.
What is Gaudete Sunday?
Of the four orders of ministry in the Episcopal Church, this one is the most foundational, since every bishop, priest, and deacon starts out belonging to it.
What is the laity (or baptized)?
What phrase do Gen Z and Gen Alpha often use to describe being in deep trouble or facing a hopeless situation?
What is being "cooked?"
This Hebrew word, meaning "instruction" or "law," names the first five books of the Old Testament and grounds Israel's entire identity in a story of being freed, not just ruled.
What is Torah?
Despite an enthusiastic online campaign to add her to the church calendar, this beloved country singer and literacy advocate is not, in fact, an official Episcopal saint, yet.
Who is Dolly Parton?
Name the three legs (or foundation) of Episcopal theology and decision making
What are Scripture, tradition, and reason?
This word for a local Episcopal congregation comes from a Greek term meaning 'dwelling alongside,' reflecting an old idea that the church was responsible for everyone in its geographic area, not just the people who showed up.
What is a parish?
Unlike 'Nones,' who never had a religious affiliation, this term describes people who grew up in church and left.
What are Dones?
This New Testament writer, once a persecutor of the early church, became its most prolific letter-writer after an encounter that knocked him to the ground.
Who is Paul?
This graduate of Howard University Law School successfully argued Brown v. Board of Education before the Supreme Court, and was also an active member of St. Augustine's Episcopal Church in DC.
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
This color traces back to royal dye reserved for penitents seeking mercy from a king; the church borrowed the symbolism for Lent, a season when we approach God in humility rather than triumph.
What is purple?
This global family of churches, which includes the Church of England and roughly 40 other member churches, is the wider communion the Episcopal Church belongs to.
What is the Anglican Communion?
This social media platform, better known for dance trends and viral memes, has become an unlikely home for Bible engagement, with the hashtag #Bible racking up millions of views
What is TikTok?
This book of songs and prayers, used in worship for thousands of years, includes both raw grief and unrestrained praise, sometimes in the same breath.
What are the psalms?
This founder of modern nursing is commemorated on August 12 for her ministry to the sick and wounded.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
This short prayer marks the turning point of the service, when worship stops being about the altar and starts being about what happens once everyone walks back out the door.
What is the Post-Communion Prayer?
This office traces back to the apostles of the early. church is responsible for keeping every congregation connected to the whole church, speaking up for the poor and needy, making sure the story of Scripture keeps taking flesh in how the church actually lives, and ordaining priests and deacons.
What is the office of bishops?
"Brain rot" was Oxford's 2024 Word of the Year, chosen for capturing Gen Z and Gen Alpha's extremely online vocabulary. This phrase actually first appeared in this 19th-century author's classic book about living simply in the woods
Who is Henry David Thoreau (Walden, 1854)?
This Old Testament book is a love poem, steamy enough that rabbis debated whether it belonged in Scripture at all.
What is Song of Songs?
This community of Episcopal nuns and clergy in Memphis, known today as Constance and her Companions, stayed behind to care for the sick in 1878 rather than flee the city in the middle of an epidemic of what disease with a color in its name?
What is yellow fever?