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The Rev. Cristina Rathbone (center) of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston joined the interfaith rally against religious bigotry held at the State House on Sept. 7. With the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks approaching and anti-Muslim incidents on the rise…

Grace Church welcomed 85 Jabberwocky campers to church on July 18. Grace Church, Vineyard Haven welcomes Jabberwocky:  This summer, as it does every summer, Grace Church in Vineyard Haven took out its first two rows of pews to make room for wheelchair-bound members of Camp…

Medical missioners served hundreds at a makeshift clinic near Santiago. Two members of Trinity Church in Melrose traveled to the Dominican Republic as part of a medical mission in July.   Judy Cote and Harry Walton joined a 16-member team in setting up a clinic in an…

A new Green Grants Initiative is now being launched to encourage, challenge and support all the congregations in the diocese in environmental stewardship.  To some that means building maintenance and bottom lines; to others, energy conservation and reducing carbon footprints—for practical or…

Volunteers from last year’s Sept. 11 Day of Service. Last year, as Sept. 11 loomed, 400 people gathered at sites around the diocese and got down to work.  They painted parish halls and cleaned up church yards in beleaguered city neighborhoods.  They installed energy…

About 100 people gathered to pray for the Gulf Coast in a July 7 vigil organized by the Massachusetts Council of Churches. Episcopalians were among the 100 people who gathered outside of Old South Church in Boston on July 7 to pray for the oil-soaked Gulf Coast, a vigil that…

What do young adults value deeply? How do they experience their faith journeys? What are their perspectives on faith, spirituality and the church? The diocese’s Relational Evangelism Pilot Project is a ministry designed to find out. …