PHOTO: Fred Hayes
Episcopalians were among those who gathered outside of Old South Church in Boston on July 7 to pray for the oil-soaked Gulf Coast “across our Christian witnesses and traditions,” says Bishop Gayle E. Harris.
PHOTO: Deborah Gardner Walker
What do young adults value deeply? How do they experience their faith journeys? The diocese’s Relational Evangelism Pilot Project is designed to find out.
"We are viewing evangelism as a spiritual practice emanating from our deep gratitude for God's presence in our lives," the program’s director, the Rev. Arrington Chambliss, says.
06/29/10: Retired bishop suffragan, the Rt. Rev. Barbara C. Harris returned home to Foxboro today after a three-week stay in a rehabilitation facility where she has been recuperating from a stroke.
She sends her thanks for the cards, notes, prayers and good wishes people have been sending her way. "I really am on the mend," she said by phone.
PHOTO: Kathryn Kendrick
In the wake of the recent Boston street violence that left four young people dead in a month, Episcopal churches are taking their witness for peace to the playground.
PHOTO: Tracy J. Sukraw
Episcopal City Mission (ECM) supporters heard a call to “big citizenship” from Alan Khazei and celebrated the past year’s social justice work, including CORI reform and British Petroleum disinvestment, during the organization’s annual meeting on June 8.
PHOTO: Courtesy of All Saints’ Church
On Sunday, May 2, motorcyclists from as far away as Hartford, Conn., and Laconia, N.H., rode in to All Saints’ Church in West Newbury to be blessed.
PHOTO: Courtesy of the Church of St. John the Evangelist
The Church of St. John the Evangelist in Mansfield on May 8 took up a special collection: backpacks filled with supplies for earthquake survivors in Haiti.
Courtesy of St. Peter’s Church
The Middle School Youth Group at St. Peter’s Church in Weston are Hearth, Inc.’s 2010 Outstanding Community Group for helping improve the lives of elders.