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This sounds strange, but Ash Wednesday is one of my favorite days. We get to tell the truth, about the fact that we're dust, that our lives will end, and that even if we try our best, we are going to mess up. People bring back the palms they got on Palm Sunday [last year and then] stuck behind a…

March Madness, meet Lent Madness. The NCAA basketball tournament that drives millions to fill out their brackets and cheer ardently for their team now has a knock-off of the highest order. Two Episcopal priests have turned the bracket format into a showdown of saints. They run LentMadness.org to…

Six new diocesan staff members are now in place. The Rev. Dr. Edie Dolnikowski has been hired as the new canon for ordained vocations and will begin full time on Feb. 25.  She has been the associate rector at St. Andrew's Church in Wellesley…

[Episcopal Public Policy Network] The following message comes from Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori:  The United States has witnessed far too many public shootings in recent months and years. Far too many lives have been cut short or maimed by both random and targeted acts of gun…