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Thursday, August 12, 2010
Parish Church of St. Helena: Nearly new clothing sale

Parish Church of St. Helena

Nearly new clothing sale

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 ... ]

Saturday, July 17, 2010
Columbia: New Episcopal bishop suspends dean of Trinity Cathedral

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 ... ]

Tuesday, June 15, 2010
“VeggieTown Values” features three children’s summer sessions

Parish Church of St. Helena summer program

“VeggieTown Values” features three children’s summer sessions

[ read article ... ]

Tuesday, June 15, 2010
B.J. Scott Choir sings praise, brings joy

B.J. Scott Choir sings praise, brings joy [ read article ... ]

Monday, June 14, 2010
Episcopal Church moves further away from Anglican Communion

Episcopal Church moves further away from Anglican Communion [ read article ... ]

Friday, May 28, 2010
Archbishop of Canterbury takes aim at “excommunicating” Episcopal Church

Archbishop takes aim at “excommunicating” Episcopal Church [ read article ... ]

Monday, April 19, 2010
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 ... ]

Sunday, April 11, 2010
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 ... ]

Saturday, April 10, 2010
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 ... ]

Wednesday, April 7, 2010
In memoriam: Sherwood Harris comes home to Beaufort

In memoriam: Sherwood Harris comes home to Beaufort

A chapter in the history of small-town Beaufort–when its economy depended almost entirely on harvesting, packing and shipping seafood and vegetables–will come to a close Thursday, April 8, when the ashes of Sherwood Harris will be interred in the cemetery of the Parish Church of St. Helena. [ read article ... ]

Saturday, April 3, 2010
Easter 2010

Easter 2010

Easter is the central religious feast in the Christian liturgical year. [ read article ... ]

Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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 ... ]

Sunday, March 28, 2010
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 ... ]

Sunday, March 28, 2010
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 ... ]

Saturday, March 27, 2010
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 ... ]

Saturday, March 20, 2010
William Wordsworth: Daffodils

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 ... ]

Thursday, March 18, 2010
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 ... ]

Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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 ... ]

Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Episcopalians to consecrate partnered lesbian as bishop

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 ... ]

Sunday, March 14, 2010
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 ... ]

Friday, March 12, 2010
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 ... ]

Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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 ... ]

Wednesday, March 3, 2010
In memoriam: Clyde A. Eltzroth (1916-2010), Lowcountry lawyer and judge

In memoriam: Clyde A. Eltzroth (1916-2010), Lowcountry lawyer and judge

[ read article ... ]

Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Free organ concert Friday

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 ... ]

Thursday, February 11, 2010
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 ... ]

Wednesday, January 6, 2010
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 ... ]

Thursday, December 17, 2009
Gerard Manley Hopkins: Pied Beauty

Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Nativity Pageant: St. Helena’s Church re-enacts Christmas story today

St. Helena’s Church re-enacts Christmas story today

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 ... ]

Sunday, November 29, 2009
Today is the first Sunday in Advent

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 ... ]

Tuesday, November 17, 2009
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 ... ]

Monday, November 2, 2009
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 ... ]

Monday, October 26, 2009
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 ... ]

Sunday, October 25, 2009
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 ... ]

Saturday, October 24, 2009
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 ... ]

Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Justin Ihly Baker, former Beaufort Regional Chamber Of Commerce marketing assistant, dies of heart attack at age 25

Justin Baker dies of heart attack at age 25

At the young age of only 25 years, Justin Ihly Baker suffered a massive heart attack Thursday night while playing softball and was rushed to the hospital. On Sunday, Justin Baker passed away. He is survived  by his parents, “James (Jimmy) and Elaine Ihly Baker, a brother Jacob, all of Ridgeland, and his fiancée, Fleming Duffie, of Columbia SC. [ read article ... ]

Sunday, September 20, 2009
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 ... ]

Tuesday, September 15, 2009
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 ... ]

Wednesday, August 12, 2009
In memoriam: Theodora Guerard Huguenin Keyserling (December 17, 1919-August 1, 2009)

Son delivers eulogy for one of Beaufort’s true grande dames, Thedie Keyserling

One of Beaufort’s true grande dames, Theodora Guerard Huguenin Keyserling, known affectionately as Thedie, died August 1, 2009, at the age of almost 90 years. Here is what was said at her funeral service on August 4 at St. Helena’s Episcopal Church in Beaufort by her son, Jonathon Keyserling, surrounded by hundreds of Thedie’s friends and family members: [ read article ... ]

Wednesday, August 5, 2009
In memoriam: Edward Ira (“Rip”) Benton, 1934-2002

My father’s answer

Edward Ira (“Rip”) Benton was born April 13, 1934, and died August 5, 2002. His son, Michael H. Benton, wrote this article to commemorate his father’s life and death. It was first published in the hometown newspaper where Rip Benton lived and died, Highlands, NC. Michael H. Benton, the cartoonist and poet whose work appears in The Beaufort Tribune, undertakes to have it published somewhere each August 5. [ read article ... ]

Thursday, July 30, 2009
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 ... ]

Saturday, July 25, 2009
In memoriam: Betty Nash Dinkins Smith, mother of Claude Dinkins

Betty Nash Dinkins Smith, 86, widow of George L. Smith, Sr., first married to the late Ed Dinkins, died Thursday, July 23, 2009, in Beaufort Memorial Hospital, Beaufort.

Born December 4, 1922, in Gray Court, SC, she was the daughter of the late Homer Dickson Nash, Sr. and the late Annie Mae Mahoney Nash, and the mother of Claude Nash Dinkins Sr. of Beaufort. [ read article ... ]

Friday, July 24, 2009
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 ... ]

Sunday, June 28, 2009
Beau Sam McGowan, military hero and colorful coastal figure, passes away at age 85

In memoriam: Sam McGowan Jr.

Sam McGowan Jr., 85, known fondly as Beau Sam McGowan, passed away peacefully at the Mayo Clinic hospital, Jacksonville, Florida, on Saturday, June 27, A resident of Frogmore on St. Helena Island until the age of 40, he resided on Jekyll Island, Georgia, the past 45 years. [ read article ... ]

Wednesday, June 10, 2009
In memoriam: Frampton Mikell Harper

Mikell Harper, long-time Beaufort attorney, dies in Georgia

Frampton Mikell Harper, 69, of 702 Taylor’s Chapel Road, Rabun Gap, GA, died Saturday, June 6, 2009, following a long illness. [ read article ... ]

Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Lost Confederate gravestone unearthed at St. Helena’s

Civil War veteran’s grave found

Beaufort, Tuesday, June 2, 2009. A long forgotten Confederate gravestone has been discovered in the old churchyard at the Parish Church of St. Helena Episcopal in downtown Beaufort. [ read article ... ]

Wednesday, May 13, 2009
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 ... ]

Sunday, October 26, 2008
Presbyterians march, Sunday, October 26, 2008 Sunday, November 4, 2007
Presbyterians march, Sunday, November 4, 2007