The Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota

The Episcopal Church’s Executive Council appointed Christopher Lacovara as the church’s next chief financial officer in a special meeting earlier today. Lacovara, a longtime Episc...

By David Paulsen. [Episcopal News Service] The Trump administration, in its escalating crackdown on both legal and illegal immigration, has halted government funding for migr...

[Episcopal News Service] Beginning today, March 10, six Episcopal leaders will represent Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe at the 69th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women –...

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Brookings, and the Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota are pleased to announce the call of the Rev. Dr. Ramona Hayes, a Lutheran pastor, as the next Rec...

A Lenten Program for Sacred Ground Facilitators. (Register Here) Thursday, March 20, from 1-2:30 p.m. Eastern Time We will be joined by a team of spiritual leaders to ...

"ICE's law enforcement tactics reflect an abdication of U.S. trust and treaty responsibility with tribal nations and their citizens," reads a letter from congressmen to Kristi Noem...

The message below is a letter from the members of The Episcopal Church’s Executive Council following its Feb. 17-19 meeting. See prior letters to the church here . Counci...

Following last week's announcement about Episcopal church staff realignment, Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe provides further insight into the vision behind the changes underway. The ...

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Church Supplies found at Church Publishing. Church Publishing produces a wide array of church supplies, including parish registers, certificates, and stationery to support and e...

In early February, the Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota released a statement to parishioners It was on the topic of illegal racial profiling. Read the statement he...

The above photo is Presiding Bishop Sean Rowe speaks Feb. 17 during an Executive Council committee meeting at the Maritime Conference Center in Linthicum Heights, Maryland. Photo...

Discover a congregation that has provided ONE MILLION DOLLARS worth of FREE DENTAL CARE to children under the age of 21! In this segment of “Missional Miles,” we visit St. James...

Clergy, have you looked at this tool? The Rev. Deacon Marty Garwood (St. Andrews, Rapid City) and The Rev. Dr. Christina O'Hara (Good Shepherd, Sioux Falls) shared with us la...

Above photo credit: Pete Nunnally: “At Water and Wilderness, they see people’s faces.” From the LIVING CHURCH Magazine 2.10.2025 There’s a perennial question at church meetings...

The Episcopal Church is among dozens of multifaith plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the U.S. government’s recent rescission of guidelines that limited immigration enforcement ...

Above photos: Mitsuko (Murakami) Otani and Seigo Otani, left, were matched and married inside the Minidoka War Relocation Center, an internment camp for Japanese Americans during...

By Neva Rae Fox, February 5, 2025 The Bible and Prayer Book Society is forging into new territory with one of its current projects: hymnals in the Lakota language. Bishop Jonat...

In this most recent segment of "Missional Miles," we travel to St. Paul's in Brookings, South Dakota. There, we celebrated the baptism of a seven-week-old baby, and Lynn Hublou an...

BISHOP’S STATEMENT TO THE DIOCESE ILLEGAL RACIAL PROFILING Feast of the Presentation / February 2, 2025 Last week, a priest in our diocese was unlawfully racially profi...