Faith & Inspiration
Tuesday, January 31: Citadel Cadet Chorale to perform free concert St. Helena’s
Tuesday, January 31
Citadel Cadet Chorale to perform free concert St. Helena’s
Continuing its Tricentennial celebration that began last Sunday with a visit from the Lord Bishop of London, the Parish Church of St. Helena will host the acclaimed Citadel Chorale on Tuesday, January 31, at 7:00 pm for a free concert. [ read article ... ]
Episcopal Disciplinary Board dismisses abandonment complaint against South Carolina bishop
Episcopal Disciplinary Board dismisses abandonment complaint against South Carolina bishop
By Mary Frances Schjonberg, Episcopal News Service
Bishop Mark Lawrence (Source: Episcopal News Service)
“Based on the information before it, the board was unable to make the conclusions essential to a certification that Bishop Lawrence had abandoned the communion of the church,” the Rt. Rev. Dorsey F. Henderson Jr., board president, said in a statement e-mailed to Lawrence and reporters. (Henderson said he informed Lawrence of the board’s conclusion by telephone as well.) [ read article ... ]
Christ Church in Savannah loses church property to national Episcopal church
Christ Church in Savannah loses church property to national Episcopal church
Christ Church, The Mother Church of Georgia in Savannah, has learned that the Georgia Supreme Court (GSC) has issued a ruling concerning Christ Church’s appeal to that body. On November 21, 2011 the GSC declared that the property of Christ Church is held in trust for the national Episcopal church and its Georgia diocese. [ read article ... ]
Friday, November 18: Last Friday organ concert in Fall Series
Friday, November 18
Last Friday organ concert in Fall Series
Jared Johnson
Canon Organist and Choirmaster,
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Columbia, SC
Friday organ concerts, featuring the Taylor & Boody Organ Opus 11, 1985, will be performed at the Parish Church of St. Helena, 505 Church Street, Beaufort. Concerts last approximately 45 minutes, and are free and open to the public. [ read article ... ]
Friday, November 4: Friday organ concert
Friday, November 4
Friday organ concert
Christopher Young
Jacobs School of Music Professor, Indiana University
Friday organ concerts, featuring the Taylor & Boody Organ Opus 11, 1985, will be performed at the Parish Church of St. Helena, 505 Church Street, Beaufort. Concerts last approximately 45 minutes, and are free and open to the public. [ read article ... ]
Friday, October 7: First Friday organ concert in Fall Series
Friday, October 7
First Friday organ concert in Fall Series
John Cummins
Organist and Choirmaster, St. Pauls Episcopal Church, Winston-Salem, NC
Friday organ concerts, featuring the Taylor & Boody Organ Opus 11, 1985, will be performed at the Parish Church of St. Helena, 505 Church Street, Beaufort. Concerts last approximately 45 minutes and are free and open to the public. [ read article ... ]
Saturday, October 8: Everyone Counts – help keep people warm through cold months
Saturday, October 8: Help keep people warm through the cold months
Everyone Counts event
On Saturday, October 8, The Link will be coming together for their second Everyone Counts event – the first event was held in January of this year and was a great success. [ read article ... ]
Beloved Baptist pastor, Dr. George Jones, revisits Beaufort
Beloved Baptist pastor, Dr. George Jones, revisits Beaufort
Dr. George Jones, the beloved pastor of The Baptist Church of Beaufort for 15 years, 1955-70, revisited Beaufort this week at the age of 91. Dr. Jones resides in Hendersonville, NC, his childhood home, to which he and his wife, Evelyn, returned when Dr. Jones retired from the active ministry in 1985. He continues to preach upon invitation and remains active as an almost full-time genealogy researcher at the Hendersonville Library. [ read article ... ]
Randy Wall’s funeral service set
Randy Wall’s funeral service set
The funeral service for Dr. Randy Wall, Beaufort Academy’s headmaster who died Tuesday night from complications of leukemia, is scheduled for Saturday, June 18, at 1:00 p.m. at St. Peter’s Catholic Church, according to an announcement by Beaufort Academy. The church is located at 70 Lady’s Island Drive on Lady’s Island. [ read article ... ]
Four 50th wedding anniversaries in one family: the Malphruses
50th anniversary family reunion this weekend
Four 50th wedding anniversaries in one family: the Malphruses
Evelyn Malphrus & Gaylon Olson on their wedding day, April 2, 1961
Anniversaries are important, especially landmark anniversaries. And to celebrate a Golden Anniversary is an accomplishment few couples reach. But one local family named Malphrus has four siblings all celebrating their 50th wedding anniversaries, and the entire family is getting together to commemorate the event this weekend. [ read article ... ]
Parish Church of St. Helena’s choir releases new CD
Parish Church of St. Helena’s choir releases new CD
In celebration of its Tricentennial in 2012, and to give glory to God, The Parish Church of St. Helena in Beaufort has produced a commemorative CD. [ read article ... ]
Happy Easter, April 24, 2011
Happy Easter, April 24, 2011
The Baptist Church of Beaufort, copyright 2011 by Steven Hyatt, http://churchesofamerica
Today is Good Friday
El Greco: Jesus carrying the Cross (1580)
Today is Good Friday
Good Friday is a religious holiday observed by Christians commemorating the crucifixion of Jesus Christ and his death at Calvary. The holiday is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum on the Friday preceding Easter Sunday, and may coincide, as it does this year, with the Jewish observance of Passover. It is also known as Holy Friday, Great Friday or Easter Friday. [ read article ... ]
April 1: The Parish Church of St. Helena presents Friday Organ Concert featuring David Enlow
April 1: The Parish Church of St. Helena presents
Friday Organ Concert featuring David Enlow
The Parish Church of St. Helena presents opening concert of Spring season
March 25: The Parish Church of St. Helena presents
Opening concert of the Spring season
The Parish Church of St. Helena Friday Organ Concerts at Noon begin Friday, March 25, 2011 featuring the Taylor & Boody Organ Opus II, 1985. The concert series offers organ concerts approximately four times each Spring and again each Fall. Concert organists from all over the world are invited to play the magnificent Taylor and Boody organ, to thrill the audiences who gather in the church, and to instruct us on composers and music we enjoy. [ read article ... ]
South Carolina Episcopalians get closer to civil war
S.C. Episcopalians get closer to civil war
Episcopal leaders in the Diocese of South Carolina at their diocesan convention in Beaufort this past weekend adopted resolutions defying the national church canons, paving the way for a constitutional confrontation later this year. By a vote of more than 2/3 of the leadership, composed of several hundred clergy and laymen, the group ruled that the canons of the national Episcopal Church are no longer recognized as binding in the diocese to the extent that they are inconsistent with the diocesan constitution and canons. [ read article ... ]
The Christmas Story: The Birth of Jesus
Illustration from Standard Bible Story Readers, book One, 1925, illustrated by O.A. Stemler
Presented below is the Christmas Story as told in the books of Luke and Matthew in the King James version of the New Testament: [ read article ... ]
Presbyterians march, Sunday, November 7, 2010
Presbyterians hold annual Kirkin’ O’ the Tartans march
Ashley Sanders, assistant minister, and Patrick Perryman, minister, The First Presbyterian Church of Beaufort, on Kirkin' O' the Tartans Sunday, November 7
Wearing plaids signifying their hereditary clans, carrying unfurled banners and marching behind two kilt-wearing bagpipers and two drummers from Charleston, the Scots of Beaufort’s First Presbyterian Church on Sunday made their traditional march down Church, Craven, Charles and Bay Streets in the historic district after their annual Kirkin’ O’ the Tartans church service. Owen Hand served as Beadle and led the march. The group returned to the front of their sanctuary on Church Street for an annual picnic under tents set in the closed street. [ read article ... ]
October 15: Music at St. Helena’s
October 15: Music at St. Helena’s
Spend an hour being soothed and excited by the music of incredible artists, while relaxing in the beauty of an historic church. Come early and take a tour of the church. Invite your friends and neighbors to join you. [ read article ... ]
Episcopal Bishop Lawrence warns national church: “The axe swinging isn’t working”
Episcopal Bishop Mark Lawrence warns national church
“The axe swinging isn’t working”
It may well be true that “The pen is mightier than the sword.” Unfortunately, it has not always been mightier than the axe. As that eloquent environmentalist Aldo Leopold wrote: “A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of his land.” Far too many of the leaders in our church have never learned this lesson. [ read article ... ]
Episcopal bishop points finger at local Episcopal dissidents
Bishop points finger at local Episcopal dissidents
Bishop Mark Lawrence responds to malcontents
in a September 23 letter to his flock, Mark Lawrence, the Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of South Carolina, rendered a lengthy and lively defense against recent claims made by dissident members of his diocese. In particular he singled out “leaders of St. Mark’s Chapel, Port Royal–a fellowship of mostly disgruntled members of St. Helena’s Beaufort”, as the source of controversy and dissension. Here is the complete text of Bishop Lawrence’s letter: [ read article ... ]
Episcopalian group sets stage to challenge diocese
Episcopalian group sets stage to challenge diocese
Members of an Episcopal Church advocacy group in the Diocese of South Carolina have asked the church’s leadership to “investigate” a series of actions which they say “are accelerating the process of alienation and disassociation” of the diocese from the Episcopal Church. [ read article ... ]
Music at St. Helena’s: Friday Organ Concerts at noon
October 1: Music at St. Helena’s
Spend an hour being soothed and excited by the music of incredible artists, while relaxing in the beauty of an historic church. Come early and take a tour of the church. Invite your friends and neighbors to join you. [ read article ... ]
Parish Church of St. Helena: Nearly new clothing sale
Parish Church of St. Helena
The annual nearly new clothing sale will be held three days next week at the the Parish Hall of the Episcopal Parish Church of St. Helena, 507 Newcastle Street, Beaufort. [ read article ... ]
Columbia: New Episcopal bishop suspends dean of Trinity Cathedral
Philip Linder, suspended dean of Trinity Cathedral (photo: Trinity Episcopal Cathedral website)
Columbia
New Episcopal bishop suspends dean of Trinity Cathedral
The new bishop of the The Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina has suspended from office the dean of Trinity Cathedral, the large and prominent Episcopal church in downtown Columbia SC with which the bishop shares administrative offices, creating shock and consternation among the church members. [ read article ... ]
“VeggieTown Values” features three children’s summer sessions
Parish Church of St. Helena summer program
“VeggieTown Values” features three children’s summer sessions
B.J. Scott Choir sings praise, brings joy
B.J. Scott Choir sings praise, brings joy [ read article ... ]
Episcopal Church moves further away from Anglican Communion
Episcopal Church moves further away from Anglican Communion [ read article ... ]
Archbishop of Canterbury takes aim at “excommunicating” Episcopal Church
Archbishop takes aim at “excommunicating” Episcopal Church [ read article ... ]
South Carolina Episcopal bishop attends conservative global conference
South Carolina Episcopal bishop to attend conservative global conference
Mark Lawrence, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, is attending the Fourth Anglican Global South to South Encounter in Singapore, April 19-23, as an observer, according to a recent announcement. [ read article ... ]
Anglican Curmudgeon points finger at Archbishop of Canterbury
Anglican Curmudgeon points finger at Archbishop of Canterbury
A.S. Haley, also known as the Anglican Curmudgeon, has written a scathing expose titled “Shine, Perishing Communion” that points the finger at the Archbishop of Canterbury as the central figure in the unraveling of the Anglican Communion. [ read article ... ]
World’s orthodox Anglican leaders issue statement
World’s orthodox Anglican leaders issue statement
Orthodox Anglican leaders from around the world gathered in Bermuda April 5-9 for a meeting of the Primates Council of the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans. Representing 34 million Anglicans, which is a majority of the entire active membership of the Anglican Communion worldwide, they issued a strong statement in support of traditional Anglican doctrine: [ read article ... ]
Easter 2010
Easter is the central religious feast in the Christian liturgical year. [ read article ... ]
Mount Pleasant congregation votes 98% to leave Episcopal Church
Mount Pleasant congregation votes 98% to leave Episcopal Church
Steve Wood, rector of St. Andrew’s Church, Mount Pleasant, the largest congregation in the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, reported yesterday that 722 people cast ballots at the congregation’s meeting on Sunday. [ read article ... ]
Rector of victorious All Saints Church gives details of legal settlement
Rector of victorious All Saints Church gives details of legal settlement
Here is the letter of Terrell Glenn, rector of All Saints Church, to his congregation revealing details of the legal settlement between his congregation and the rump Episcopal congregation that lost possession of the historic Anglican-affiliated church near Pawleys Island to Glenn’s flock: [ read article ... ]
Largest congregation in SC diocese abandons affiliation with Episcopal Church
Largest congregation in SC diocese abandons Episcopal affiliation
The vestry of St. Andrews Church, Mount Pleasant, which oversees the largest congregation in The Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, voted unanimously at 7:15 a.m. Sunday, March 28, “for this church corporation, parish, and congregation to withdraw from and sever all ties with The Episcopal Church [ read article ... ]
Rump All Saints Parish Waccamaw congregation says its long standing litigation involving national Episcopal Church has ended
Rump All Saints Parish Waccamaw congregation settles litigation involving national Episcopal Church
Ed Kelaher, rector of the rump Episcopal group remaining after the congregation of All Saints Parish Waccamaw made off with the corporate charter and the historic church property and joined a rival Anglican organization called AMiA, announced Thursday, March 25, that his congregation’s long standing litigation over ownership of the property has ended. [ read article ... ]
William Wordsworth: Daffodils
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. [ read article ... ]
Episcopal Church makes appeal to US Supreme Court
Episcopal Church makes appeal to US Supreme Court
The Episcopal Church (TEC) this past Friday, March 12, filed in the US Supreme Court a brief supporting dissident Episcopal parishioners in the Pawley’s Island area. The brief seeks a writ of certiorari in an effort to overturn the South Carolina Supreme Court’s unanimous September 2009 decision allowing the parish church of All Saints, Waccamaw, to break away from TEC. [ read article ... ]
Other voices: Anglican Communion profoundly upset with current activities of Episcopal Church
Other voices: Anglican Communion profoundly upset with current activities of Episcopal Church
As a life-long Episcopalian, former dean of one of the Episcopal Church’s 11 seminaries, ordained priest for 49 years and author of several books including “A Church To Believe In,” I am less enthusiastic about the current state of the Episcopal Church (TEC) than members of the Episcopal Forum of South Carolina appear to be. [ read article ... ]
Episcopalians to consecrate partnered lesbian as bishop
Bishop-elect Mary Douglas Glasspool, Los Angeles
Episcopalians to consecrate partnered lesbian as bishop
The Episcopal Church announced today that it will consecrate its second non-celibate homosexual bishop on May 15. The Presiding Bishop’s office announced that a majority of bishops and diocesan Standing Committees consented to the consecration of Bishop-elect Mary Douglas Glasspool as a suffragan bishop of Los Angeles. [ read article ... ]
Commentary on state of affairs in Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina
Commentary on state of affairs in Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina
Here is link to lucid commentary by A.S. Haley on the state of affairs in the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina: [ read article ... ]
Beaufort’s St. Helena preschool & kindergarten now enrolling for 2010-2011 school year
Beaufort’s St. Helena preschool & kindergarten now enrolling for 2010-2011 school year
St. Helena Preschool, located in downtown Beaufort, is now enrolling for its 2010-1011 school year. This will be the second year a Kindergarten program will be offered. [ read article ... ]
South Carolina Episcopal leaders propose resolutions to protect against Episcopal headquarters
South Carolina Episcopal leaders propose resolutions against Episcopal headquarters’ attack
Episcopal church leaders in coastal South Carolina, including Jeff Miller, rector of the Parish Church of St. Helena in Beaufort, have proposed a series of resolutions to the upcoming diocesan convention to protect the diocese from continuing threats of litigation and takeover by Episcopal church headquarters in New York City. [ read article ... ]
Free organ concert Friday
The spring series of free organ concerts at the historic Parish Church of St. Helena in downtown Beaufort opens Friday, February 26, with Julian Collings, organ, and Rebecca Hewes, cello, of London, England. The two are known as Svyati Duo. [ read article ... ]
Episcopal headquarters fires shots at Lowcountry Episcopalians
Episcopal headquarters fires shots at Lowcountry Episcopalians
In a volley reminiscent of the firing of cannon at Fort Sumter in reverse, a Charleston lawyer under the direction of the Episcopal Church headquarters in New York City has fired a series of accusations of secession at the Episcopal Bishop of South Carolina and his flock. As a result the bishop has announced a three-week postponement of the 219th annual diocesan convention until March 26 to give him and his allies time to gather their forces. [ read article ... ]
Today is Epiphany, the 6th of January
Today is Epiphany, the 6th of January
Today, January 6, is Epiphany, the Christian feast day that celebrates the revelation of God made man in the person of Jesus Christ, according to the Christian faith. It falls on the 6th of January each year. [ read article ... ]
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Pied Beauty
Nativity Pageant: St. Helena’s Church re-enacts Christmas story today
St. Helena’s Church re-enacts Christmas story today
Linda Tully, director of children's ministry, prepares cast for the Nativity Pageant, 6:30 pm Wednesday, December 16, Parish Church of St. Helena, 505 Church Street
The children and youth of the Parish Church of St. Helena re-enact the beginning of the greatest story ever, the birth of Jesus Christ, at 6:30 pm Wednesday, December 16, in their Nativity Pageant at the historic church, 505 Church Street in downtown Beaufort. [ read article ... ]
Today is the first Sunday in Advent
Detail from Advent and Triumph of Christ by Hans Memling, 1480.
Today is the first Sunday in Advent
Advent (from the Latin word adventus, meaning “coming”) is the beginning of the Christian year. It is a season of the Christian church, the period of expectant waiting and preparation for the celebration of the Nativity of Jesus, in other words, the period immediately before Christmas. It is the beginning of the Western liturgical year and commences on Advent Sunday, which this year is today, November 29, 2009. [ read article ... ]
Unitarian Universalists march in support of Heritage Days event
Unitarian Universalists celebrate 10th anniversary by “standing on the side of love”
Spectators along the parade route at Saturday’s Penn Center Heritage Days parade cheered as Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Beaufort (UUFB) members marched in support of the celebration, a community event showcasing the cultural heritage of the Gullah people with this year’s theme “Lest We Forget”. [ read article ... ]
Presbyterians march, Sunday, November 1, 2009
Scots march for Faith, Freedom and Family
Wearing plaids signifying their hereditary clans. carrying unfurled banners and marching behind two kilt-wearing bagpipers and a drummer from Charleston, the Scots of Beaufort’s First Presbyterian Church on Sunday made their traditional march down Church, Craven, Charles and Bay Streets in the historic district after their annual Kirkin’ O’ the Tartans church service. They returned to the front of their sanctuary on Church Street for an annual picnic under tents set in the closed street. [ read article ... ]
South Carolina diocese distances itself from Episcopal bodies, reaffirms traditional faith
South Carolina diocese distances itself from Episcopal bodies, reaffirms traditional faith
The voting margins were huge on Saturday as a special convention of the Diocese of South Carolina approved four resolutions supported by the diocesan bishop, the Rt. Rev. Mark Joseph Lawrence. [ read article ... ]
Lowcountry Episcopalians move further from national church
Lowcountry Episcopalians move further from national church
Episcopalian leaders in the Diocese of South Carolina, which covers 70 parishes in the Lowcountry with 30,000 church members, met in a special convention Saturday morning at Christ Church in Mount Pleasant and adopted by large majorities four resolutions designed to move the diocese further away from the national Episcopal church. [ read article ... ]
Parish Church of St. Helena women prepare for November 7 bazaar
St. Helena church women prepare for November 7 bazaar
The women of The Parish Church of St. Helena are busy preparing for their annual Fall Bazaar, Saturday, November 7, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Parish House, 507 Newcastle Street, Beaufort. [ read article ... ]
United Methodist Church of Beaufort’s Fall Bazaar on Saturday
United Methodist Church of Beaufort held its fall bazaar on Saturday. Pumpkins for sale covered the lawn outside the church as Beaufort residents shopped for bargains of all kinds. [ read article ... ]
Break-away Pawleys Island Episcopal congregation wins big case in SC Supreme Court
Break-away Pawleys Island Episcopal congregation wins big case in SC Supreme Court
The Supreme Court of South Carolina delivered on Friday a unanimous decision in the oldest still-pending court dispute involving the application of the Dennis Canon of The Episcopal Church (TEC) to a parish’s property. In a wide-ranging decision involving All Saints Parish Church, Waccamaw, which serves the Pawleys Island area, the court held that All Saints Parish Church, Waccamaw, is an independent congregation and the true owner of its property outside the jurisdiction of The Episcopal Church. The property includes the original parish church which is more than 200 years old. [ read article ... ]
Frank Limehouse, former rector of Parish Church of St. Helena, speaks out against changes in Episcopal Church
Episcopal church rectors take stand against modernism
Frank Limehouse, former rector of the Parish Church of St. Helena, Beaufort, and now the dean of The Cathedral Church of the Advent, Birmingham, Alabama, has joined a rising chorus of Episcopal clergy members who are angling away from the denomination’s increasingly liberal trends. [ read article ... ]
Reverend Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, better known as Reverend Ike, dies
Reverend Ike, nationally famous radio evangelist from Ridgeland, dies at 74
Colorful and wealthy radio, television and Internet evangelist Frederick J. Eikerenkoetter II, better known as Reverend Ike, died In Los Angeles, California, July 28, 2009 of a stroke. He was 74. He was a native of Ridgeland SC and got his start on the radio at a station in Beaufort. [ read article ... ]
Anglican churches in Beaufort, Bluffton and Hilton Head Island release “Where We Stand,” statement
In an act reminiscent of Martin Luther’s nailing his 95 theses on the church at Wittenberg in Germany, which started the Protestant Reformation, the leaders of three churches in Beaufort county that are members of the Anglican communion of churches worldwide through The Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina have released a statement disassociating themselves from the actions of the recent General Convention of the Episcopal Church.
The churches are The Parish Church of Saint Helena, Beaufort, The Church of the Cross, Bluffton, and St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Hilton Head Island. Here is the complete statement, signed by ten members of the clergy and 35 members of the vestries of the three churches: [ read article ... ]
IRS ruling helps religious groups
IRS rules preachers can engage
in political acts
Washington DC, Wednesday, May 13, 2009. In a ruling having major implications to religious groups and their political opponents, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service has ruled that ministers and pastors may engage in political acts on behalf of issues such as traditional-values advocacy without risk of losing their organization’s tax-exempt status . [ read article ... ]
Presbyterians march, Sunday, October 26, 2008
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Presbyterians march, Sunday, November 4, 2007
