Due to the incoming intense weather from Hurricane Helene, and in keeping with our policy of following the public school closures, the diocesan office will be closed tomorrow, Friday, September 27. Please remain safe during this severe weather event and continue to pray for those in the path of this storm. Your diocesan staff will be available via email and phone tomorrow. For email addresses of staff, click here. Please call 865-966-2110 and a staff member will endeavor to answer
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The Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee is excited to announce the presence of a new Franciscan Friar, Brother Dustin Odom, in the diocese. The celebration took place at St. John’s Church in Johnson City, TN with the Rev. Dr. Laura Bryant (Rector at St. John’s) and Brother Andrew Morehead (Ecumenical Order of Charity and Diocesan Missioner for Communications and Evangelism) leading the celebration. Br. John Huebner (Order of St. Francis) and Br. Jesse Stinnett (Ecumenical Order of Charity) also participated.
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We are excited to announce our newest deacon, the Rev. Beth Janney. The people of St. Peter’s and East Tennessee gathered with Bishop Brian Cole to celebrate her ordination on Saturday, September 21, 2024 at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church, Chattanooga. The Rev. Janney will head to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Chattanooga, to serve as their deacon. Please keep her and both parish communities in your prayers. Below is Bishop Brian Cole’s sermon from the celebration. A recording may be viewed
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Bishop Brian Cole recently interviewed New York Times best-selling author and East Tennessee Episcopalian, Jamie Quatro, at our latest book event at Church of the Ascension. Quatro’s latest book, Two-Step Devil, a story of religious prophecy, adventure, and the meeting of estranged souls. Check out the video above and head to Union Ave Books to order your copy of Two-Step Devil.
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By GEORGIANA VINES The Venerable Jerry Askew, PhD, archdeacon and small congregation consultant for the Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee, will be presented the Bruce McCarty Community Impact Award by the East Tennessee Community Design Center at a celebration on Oct. 16 at Historic Ramsey House. Askew, who also serves as deacon at St. John’s Episcopal Cathedral in Knoxville, is being recognized as a community leader who has enhanced the lives of others in education, business, community service and ministry,
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The Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee is excited to announce the presence of a new Franciscan Friar in the diocese. Brother Dustin Odom completed his year of postulancy and officially became a Franciscan friar in the Order of St. Francis (OSF) on July 21, 2024. The blessing and installation of Br. Dustin into the Order of St. Francis took place at the DeKoven Episcopal Center in Racine, Wisconsin during the communities annual convocation. The Order of St. Francis is a
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Bishop Brian Cole reflects on the upcoming season of strategic visioning for the Diocese of East Tennessee, commencing with the Leadership Summit at Grace Point Camp and Retreat Center. Transcript Hi, I’m Bishop Brian. I want to give you an update on the next chapter ahead for us as bishop and people in the Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee. Over seven years ago is when we began this work together and a part of what got us to that moment
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On Saturday, August 24, Bishop Brian Cole along with the people of East Tennessee and St. Alban’s Episcopal Church, Cape Elizabeth, Maine, celebrated the ordination of the Rev. Sarah Hess to the priesthood at Grace Episcopal Church, Chattanooga.
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Rich, complex, exciting, confusing, life, death, and beyond—all words to capture a bit of truth about this very rich, complex world inhabited by all kinds of individual particles emerging into flora, fauna, animals of all kinds, including humans who together make up a unity. This book is Keese’s attempt to celebrate the unity and the diversity. Poetry hints of an openness to complexity while certainty tends to become restrictive dogma. Other Ways means to hint that full meaning, complete certainty, is
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Bishop Brian Cole and the St. Elizabeth’s and Knoxville community gathered to celebrate the ordination of the Rev. William Simerly to the priesthood on the feast of Jonathan Myrick Daniels on Wednesday, August 14. Rev. Simerly also celebrated his first Eucharist with the feast of the Assumption of Mary the next day. Photos: Bro. Andrew Aelred Morehead, OC
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