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The team at the Barbara C. Harris Camp and Conference Center in Greenfield, N.H., is busily preparing for the summer 2015 season. Camp director Alessia Doss says that the center is looking forward to hosting a “more regional” group of campers this year, drawing children and youth from the dioceses…

Few corners of the country have received as much snow overload as Boston and its environs, where  aging transportation systems and inadequate snow-removal budgets brought normal life to a virtual halt over a period of weeks. Members of  First Lutheran (ELCA) of Malden discovered the…

When Rev. Edgar Gutierrez-Duarte arrived in Chelsea in 2007, there was a small closet with a few rows of non-perishable food items in the St. Luke’s Episcopal Church that Father Edgar’s predecessor had left behind and had sometimes handed out to the hungry.It had been an act of service that was…

This morning I was awakened at 5:30 a.m. by the sound of our town’s Department of Public Works crews clearing the heavy slush that accumulated overnight.  I didn’t begrudge them the noise this morning because the sounds I heard were sidewalk plows trying to clear a place to walk for…

Despite the various hurdles presented by a historic winter, the Union of Black Episcopalians' Absalom Jones service on Feb. 22 was marked by high spirits, an opportunity to honor lay leaders and a sermon by Bishop Gates (full text of sermon appears below). Originally scheduled for Feb. 15, the…

For the first time, the diocese's Barbara C. Harris Camp and Conference Center in Greenfield, N.H., will be handling registration and administration of Family Camp, which will be held this year June 25-28.  Amy Cook, diocesan missioner for education, formation and discipleship, who formerly…

With snow and bitter cold blanketing the city, local churches are opening new daytime shelters for the homeless who left Boston Harbor's Long Island. WGBH Radio’s Anne Mostue brings us this story on the continuing response to the city's homeless crisis. Click the link above to listen to the…

This post originally appeared on The Rambling Priest, the blog of the Rev. Philip LaBelle, Rector of St. Mark's Church in Southborough. The parish I serve, St. Mark’s in Southborough, was founded in 1860 by a local business man Joseph Burnett.  Joseph gave land and money to build our…

Two Boston day shelters, opened in January, continue to operate at Emmanuel Church and Old South Church (UCC) and will continue through April, according to The Rev. Pamela Werntz, Rector of Emmanuel Church. "We have extended the shelters through the end of April at both sites because of their…

Winter Camp this year at the diocese's Barbara C. Harris Camp and Conference Center in Greenfield, N.H., was cut short a day because of one of February's many snowstorms, which simply meant, according to campers, "days packed with more excitement, more activities and more meaningful worships."…