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Clergy Retreat Scheduled for April 28-30

4/5/2024

Clergy of the Diocese of South Carolina are invited to attend this year’s Clergy Retreat April 28-30, 2024, at St. Christopher Camp & Conference Center. Clergy should have already received an email invitation with details and a link to registration, also available at this link.

The retreat—previously known as Clergy Conference—is the annual gathering of active and retired priests and deacons serving in our diocese, hosted by the bishop and usually including presentations from a special guest speaker. This year’s speaker is the Reverend Dr. Amy Bentley Lamborn, who will give a series of retreat talks entitled “Practicing Resurrection: Spaces of Aliveness.”

Dr. Lamborn currently serves as Vicar of the Southeast Tennessee Episcopal Ministry (STEM) and Visiting Faculty in Pastoral Theology at the School of Theology, University of the South, Sewanee. She is also a Jungian analyst and pastoral psychotherapist in private practice. Lamborn previously served as professor of Pastoral Theology at the General Theological Seminary, visiting professor in psychology and religion at Marymount Manhattan College, and lecturer at the Union Theological Seminary.

Dr. Lamborn’s scholarly work focuses on the relationship between depth psychology and theology. Her publications include such topics as interdisciplinary methodology, Trinitarian theology and models of self/subjectivity, and Jungian psychology, phenomenology, and theology. Her most recent essay, “From Ghost to Ancestor: Transforming Jung’s Racial Complex,” was published in Jungian Reflections on Systemic Racism (Routledge, 2023). And her essay, “The Fourth Reduction: Carl Jung, Richard Kearney, and the Via Tertia of Otherness,” was a finalist for the Gradiva Awards “Best Essay” in 2012. Her book, Figuring the Self, Figuring the Sacred: Imagining Unity and Multiplicity in Depth Psychology and Theology, will be published by Pickwick Publications in 2025.

Dr. Lamborn enjoys good literature and film, as well as British crime shows. She is passionate about cooking/Southern hospitality, road cycling, and playing classical music (piano). We look forward to her joining the bishop and clergy of the diocese for what promises to be a rich springtime retreat at St. Christopher.

Good Shepherd, Sumter, Hosts Pysanka Folk Artist During Easter weekend

4/4/2024

Ukrainian-born, Pysanka folk artist Yevheniia Bazaliy at Good Shepherd Sumter

Good Shepherd, Sumter hosted a demonstration by Ukrainian-born, Pysanka folk artist Yevheniia Bazaliy as part of its Easter weekend celebrations. Bazaliy's two-hour demonstration included an introduction to tools and materials—beeswax, dyes, eggshells and kistka (wax stylus)—and to the process of drawing the design on the egg, applying wax to enhance the design, and dipping the egg in dyes to create patterns and color contrasts.

Pysanka is a unique and beautiful art form that involves using melted beeswax to draw designs on eggs, which are then dyed in layers to create stunning and intricate patterns. The process is meticulous and requires patience, precision, and attention to detail. Each egg tells a story through its unique patterns and colors, and the tradition of Pysanka has been passed down for generations.

Bazaliy currently resides in Columbia, South Carolina. Her interest in Pysanka was inspired by her maternal grandfather, who was a native of the Lemko region of the country. In 2020-2021 she received a South Carolina Arts Commission (SCAC) Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Initiative grant to promote Pysanka art in South Carolina.

Clergy News: The Rev. Roy Hills

4/4/2024

The Rev. Roy Hills - The Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina - Priest

The Rev. Roy Hills, who has served St. James-Santee, McClellanville as priest-in-charge since October 2020, recently announced to the congregation his plans to retire from this role in the coming months. Fr. Hills has been working with Bishop Ruth Woodliff-Stanley and Canon Philip Linder on the details of his retirement and the transition process, but he hopes to complete his time at St. James-Santee by his 34th ordination anniversary on June 1, 2024.

In his announcement to the congregation, Fr. Hills expressed his gratitude to the people of St. James-Santee. "In my nearly four years with you I have worked with very fine vestry leadership and together, in spite of early difficulties from COVID, St. James-Santee has grown and developed," said Fr. Hills. "It has been a great pleasure to be with you."

Fr. Hills has served a number of congregations in our diocese and the Diocese of Upper South Carolina throughout the course of his 33-year ministry. He and his wife are looking forward to the possibilities opened by a more full retirement. "My wife and I have been thinking about a 'bucket list' of things we might do and spending more time with our daughters and grandchildren has also been a growing factor," said Fr. Hills in his retirement announcement.

Clergy Retreat Scheduled for April 28-30

Good Shepherd, Sumter, Hosts Pysanka Folk Artist During Easter weekend

Clergy News: The Rev. Roy Hills

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