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Our B-PEACE Resource Day on Sept. 28, 2013, drew more than 300 eastern Massachusetts Episcopalians for workshops and inspiration to work against violence and be peacemakers in our churches, schools, families and communities.  The Rev. Kathleen Adams-Shepherd, Rector of Trinity Episcopal Church…

Brazilian ambassador Frederico Cesar de Araujo visited St. Andrew's Episcopal Church Saturday to see in action the church's Portuguese language program for children called Nucleo Educacionista. The Ambassador met with church leaders and Arlete Falkwoski, who runs the Nucleo Educacionista, a…

The Celestial Infernos steel drum band plays as Resource Day attendees arrive for check-in at Roxbury Community College. The musicians are youth from St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church in Roxbury. Ellen Stuart Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE opened the morning…

On Sunday, Sept. 15, more than 35 people joined in a “Worshipful Walk” in the Middlesex Fells with Grace Episcopal Church. The “Worshipful Walk” was part of Grace Church’s series of experiments around starting a new worship service on Sundays at 5 p.m.

The diocesan Office of Transition Ministry has announced the following clergy position changes, as of Sept. 25, 2013: The Rev. Adrian Peter Robbins-Cole, Rector, St. Andrew’s Church, Wellesley The Rev. Philip J. Kuhn, Rector, Trinity Church, Randolph The Rev. Karen Coleman, Rector, St. James’s…

Trinity Church in Haverhill is hard at work with other churches and with Team Haverhill, a local volunteer civic organization, to rebuild the run-down Portland Street Playground.  According to the Rev. Jane Bearden, Rector of Trinity Church, the playground has long been abandoned by the city…

The discernment process toward the election of the next bishop for the Diocese of Massachusetts is underway.The Discernment Committee, with the oversight of the diocesan Standing Committee, has begun its confidential screening and interviewing process.  The Discernment Committee gathered with…

A year and a half after its public launch, and with all congregations participating, the Diocese of Massachusetts' Together Now fundraising campaign reached its $20-million goal over the summer months."We've done it.  We're over the top.  Large and small, individually and collectively, we…

It was a long day of statistics and storytelling at the State House on Sept. 13, as hundreds gathered in Gardner Auditorium to give and hear testimony on proposed changes to the state's gun laws.Sixty-some gun reform bills are before the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security, and…