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Updated 9:30 p.m. / May 20, 2013:  Bishop Shaw came home from the hospital yesterday and is resting well, according to the Rev. Canon Mally Lloyd, Canon to the Ordinary, who spoke with him today.  She said the doctors continue to be pleased with his progress, and that he is very grateful…

“When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.  And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting.  Divided tongues, as of fire, appeared among them, and a tongue rested on each of…

Walkers from Christ Church, Andover PHOTO: Christ Church, Andover Walkers from St. Stephen’s Church, Cohasset, with Bishop Gayle Harris PHOTO: St. Stephen’s Church, Cohasset Walkers from St. Mark’s Church,…

On Saturday, April 27, 60 Lower Roxbury residents and volunteers came out to build a community garden on a lot that has been overgrown and collecting litter for years. The project came out of conversations with parents from St. Stephen’s Youth Programs, who identified the vacant lot as an eyesore…

Soon after the Boston Marathon bombings, local Christian leaders stepped swiftly into the public eye, convening vigils and urging peaceful healing in the wake of senseless violence. But their public voices have fallen mostly silent as noisy resistance grows to the prospect that suspected bomber…

View a photo gallery from the walk, here, and Bishop Shaw's video, here, and read the Boston Globe story, here. On Mother’s Day, May 12, Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE will lead an Episcopal Church contingent, expected to number at least several hundred walkers from parishes across the Diocese of…

The nautilus, publicly lit for the first time, on May 8. PHOTO: Tracy J. Sukraw Blue background going up above, nautilus sculpture waiting in its crate below. PHOTO: Tracy J. Sukraw The nautilus is lowered…

A crane lifted the large piece of sculpture and placed it within the empty pediment of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, high above Tremont Street, on a recent sunny morning. In traveling 60 feet skyward, the piece, made of hand-formed aluminum and weighing 650 pounds, completed a journey that, in…

It was a very different scene on the lawn of the Church of Our Saviour, with rock music and motorcycle riders replacing hymns and church-goers. The transformation Sunday afternoon was part of the Episcopal church’s second annual Blessing of the Motorcycles.

View video, photos and media coverage from the event here. While mainline denominations don’t often hold revivals, the compelling need for people of faith Jeremy Marin From left):…