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Holy God God of Peace God of Justice Giver of Life, We mourn, we lament, we rage as the scourge of gun violence in our land continues unabated, as the uniquely American plague of gun violence slaughters our siblings, our parents, our children.

More than 450 lay and clerical delegates gathered June 4 at St. Stephen’s and St. Agnes School in Alexandria, Va. for a special convention to elect the 14th Bishop Diocesan of the Diocese of Virginia.

The following is a letter from the Standing Committee in advance of Saturday’s Special Convention to elect the 14th Bishop Diocesan.

As Christians, we put our whole trust in someone who bore the brunt of the worst that we can dish out, as individuals or as a “system”, and who rose victorious from that greatest of all betrayals, betrayal unto death.

Yesterday, evil in all its murderous destruction visited Buffalo, New York, where an 18-year-old with tactical gear and an assault rifle deliberately took the lives of 10 people and seriously injured three more.

This afternoon the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Virginia announced the decision of a majority of its members not to add any petition candidates to the slate for the election of the 14th Bishop Diocesan.

Dear Diocesan Family, We appreciate the people who participated in the petition process, and respect all those who supported petition candidates. The Standing Committee has done its due diligence, as required by the petition process, and the majority of the Standing...

Peter said: I’m going fishing. It’s been a week or two since the drama of the crucifixion, the overwhelming, earth-shattering, cosmos-rearranging event of the resurrection, the inexplicable appearance of the risen Jesus in that locked room, and his later encounter...

The Rt. Rev. Susan E. Goff, Bishop Suffragan and Ecclesiastical Authority, and the diocesan Standing Committee have appointed 16 diverse members to the Task Force on Reparations of the Diocese of Virginia.

For the first time since 1993, a slate for bishop in the Diocese of Virginia does not include racial, ethnic or gender diversity.