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Four Marblehead churches have joined together to build an active Christian youth program that will begin this fall with a series of events open to middle and high school youth in the community. Lay leaders from Clifton Lutheran Church, Old North Church (United Church of Christ), St. Andrew’s…

After a two-year search, St. John’s Episcopal Church announced that the Rev. Marya DeCarlen is its new priest-in-charge, or as she prefers to call herself, “priest-in-collaboration.” DeCarlen most recently served as rector of All Saints of the North Shore in Danvers and previously at St. James…

The rector at St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church for the past two decades, the Rev. Brian McGurk led his last worship service at the downtown  Chatham church on Aug. 27. Although he “quietly” announced plans to retire about a year ago, the transition will take a bit of getting used to, he said…

While some Mattapoisett residents celebrated Labor Day weekend at the town beach, parishioners at nearby St. Philip’s Episcopal Church closed their 139th summer season by recognizing the contributions of three longtime priests on Sunday, Sept. 3.

In something as simple as a light bulb or as complex as a heating system that warms parishioners in a cavernous sanctuary, Bishop Bud Cederholm saw ways to better serve God by lessening the impact each church had on the environment. “If we do our share, there is hope for the earth,” he told the…

St. Peter’s Church in Dartmouth has received the 2023 William Tripp Award of the Church Home Society, along with a $10,000 grant to support its youth ministry. The Church Home Society provides grants to nonprofit organizations which support underserved youth.

Just over a century after William Benjamin Gould’s death, the town of Dedham unveiled a statue honoring the Civil War veteran, who escaped slavery before establishing himself as an anchor of the local community. More than 100 residents of Dedham and beyond gathered at William B. Gould Park,…

Recently, more than 60 volunteers came out to help plant a new permaculture garden at St. Barnabas’s Church on Falmouth’s Main Street. The 2,500-square-foot garden is located on the church property beside Siders Pond on a section of lawn previously used for auxiliary parking. The idea for this…

A permaculture webinar in 2020 will blossom into the real deal at St. Barnabas's Episcopal Church on May 27 when volunteers will tear up a lawn and replace grass with native plants and fruit trees. The effort will turn a 2,500 square-foot grassy area near Siders Pond into one rich with food and…

Surrendered guns got a new, more peaceful purpose at an event at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth on Wednesday that took inspiration from a Bible verse. “It’s a change for an instrument with the potential for tremendous harm to an instrument of nurturing,” said Bishop James Curry,…