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On Saturday, April 5, somewhere in the sea of electing delegates and prayerful observers from across the diocese, there will be a few of us non-Episcopalians.  The Massachusetts Council of Churches will send an ecumenical delegation to watch and pray with you.  Our intention is that our…

Seven members of the confirmation class at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Milton and six adults visited Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston on March 7 for Ecclesia Ministries’ "CityReach," an overnight program of discovery and conversation about the causes and circumstances of homeless people…

Religious leaders, town and state officials and residents gathered in Bedford March 20 to denounce recent acts of anti-Semitism in the schools and pledge their support to help make Bedford a safe and welcoming community for all cultures and races.  "We wish this wasn't happening but since they…

Rowan Williams, scholar, theologian, poet and former archbishop of Canterbury has a wonderful collection of sermons entitled "Open to Judgment." Anyone who has encountered Williams's theology will be familiar with his understanding of this concept; in his work he places the Christian into a posture…

Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE convened clergy and business leaders for a March 6 breakfast where they heard about how they can help reduce street violence and enrich their own communities and workplaces by hiring teens in need of summer jobs."There is a huge gap right now between the number of teens…

While visiting the diocesan offices on Mar. 14, 2014,  the seven candidates for bishop took the opportunity to sit down with the communications office and introduce themselves on video. To learn more about the candidates, please visit www.mabishopsearch.org 

A special convention to elect the next bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts will take place on Saturday, April 5.Clergy and lay delegates from the parishes and missions of the diocese will gather at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul (138 Tremont Street) in Boston to elect a diocesan…

The Church Home Society has announced that it will create an endowment fund for summer camp scholarships in honor of Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE.The society's board of trustees voted in December to create within its endowment a $1-million fund, to be called the Bishop M. Thomas Shaw Campership Fund…

Episcopal City Mission’s Lobby Day on April 9 will both celebrate Bishop Tom Shaw’s leadership in social activism and carry it forward. Episcopalians are invited to gather with Shaw at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston for a celebration in his honor, and then walk together to the State…

Something that so often inspires my prayer is the fact that nothing in New Testament Scripture was actually written by anyone who knew Jesus of Nazareth.  We have stories of Jesus that were passed down from generation to generation because those stories spoke to specific issues in Christian…