Our Mission
The mission of Canterbury Fellowship within the Episcopal Church is to restore all people to unity with God and each other in Christ.
We pursue this mission in many different and complementary ways. We pray, worship, and proclaim the Gospel. We also promote justice, equality, inclusion, peace, love, critical thinking and acting as agents of change in our world.
Bloomington Pride Festival 
At the 187th Diocesan Convention! 
Reception of our own Ellis by the Bishop 
Day of the Dead Altar 
Outdoor Evensong 
Graduate Students Hard at Work 
Zoom Service 
LatinX Culture Center – Day of the Dead Prep 
Faith Fest! 
Conversation with Bishop Jennifer 
Culture Fest! 
Bishop Jennifer’s Visit
Who Are We?
It is equally vital to us that Canterbury is assertively open and affirming of our LGBTQIA+ siblings. Canterbury works industriously to ensure that students, faculty, and staff know they have a safe place and loving people on campus where they can be LGBTQIA+ and Christian. Our God loves us exactly as we are and we live out that love as best we can, valuing one another deeply for all of who they are, and all they seek to become.
At Canterbury, all can find rest, healing and faith-filled community where they are encouraged to be themselves, to be inquisitive or to just simply be. Many find in the life of a university that they begin to wonder about their beliefs and values. Some may have found it hard to be active in a faith community while earnestly making new inquiries and seeking new perspectives or practices. Canterbury welcomes seekers who want to explore faith in a safe place. We love questions about faith; we prefer to have questions that don’t have answers than to have answers that cannot be questioned. Those who feel the Church has not valued their inquiring are especially welcome, wanted and invited to be among us.
Meet Rev Ed
The Rev. Ed Bird (he/him)
Chaplain to Canterbury House at Indiana University, Bloomington
Rev. Ed was born in Pittsburgh, grew up in Memphis, and found a home in Chicago for nearly 20 years where he met and married his wife, Beth, and where Ed was ordained to the Episcopal priesthood.
He went to the University of Memphis for his Bachelor’s, got an M.S.W. at SUNY Albany, and went to seminary in Chicago at McCormick and Seabury. Ed was a psychiatric social worker and also served the homeless community in Chicago before becoming a priest, where he still advocates for and serves those who are unhoused and still employs the listening ear of a social worker.
Rev. Ed has ministered in urban churches, suburban churches, a residential program for returning citizens, run a soup kitchen, and a summer day camp for Chicago youth. The theology he brings to Canterbury is that God is fully inclusive, open, and affirming; that the Church should harm no one and has many amends to make in that area; that everyone should be treated as full citizens in the kin-dom (yes, kin-dom!) of our God. Ed believes the Church should offer a healing community of faith to everyone as individuals and as parts of groups.
The Canterbury House: The Episcopal Campus Ministry at Indiana University 