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Committees hear testimony on developing a common framework for anti-racism training
Testimony on $143 million 2025-27 churchwide budget plan focuses on top church priorities
Los Angeles-area church, partners rejoice as Santa Angelina Senior Housing Community opens its doors
Transformative dialogue takes center stage at KAICIID Global Dialogue Forum
Scottish Episcopal Church discipline tribunal to hear complaints against bishop
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It takes a neighborhood to raise a child and ensure that young imaginations can grow and soar. Organizations in the Niagara Neighborhood have taken that job seriously and have worked to keep the William S. Greene School Library open to its 727 elementary students. “We wanted to help the children…
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Just over a year ago, the day after the deadly mass shooting at Pittsburgh’s Tree of Life Synagogue, more than a thousand locals gathered together on the Boston Common to mourn and pray. As the Rev. Amy McCreath, dean of the historic St. Paul Cathedral that overlooks America’s oldest park, watched…
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The Office of the Bishop has issued the following notice:

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This year's Diocesan Convention got a nudge toward reimagining the church--one of the diocesan mission strategy's three thematic planks--from young adults who have been working together as a task force over the past year to formulate recommendations to help the church more fully engage them and their peers. 

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The Diocese of Massachusetts mission strategy calls our diocesan community to embrace brave change by reimagining our congregations, building our relationships and engaging our world. The mission strategy is an invitation to every congregation. This video highlights three examples of how local…
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The Barbara C. Harris Camp and Conference Center in Greenfield, N.H., will receive a little over $300,000 under an Oct. 30 settlement agreement, bringing to a close the embezzlement case involving the center's former bookkeeper, Beverly Morello, which has been in progress for nearly two years. The…
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2019 Convention
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Photos from the 2019 Diocesan Convention held Saturday, Nov. 2 at the Back Bay Events Center and Emmanuel Church, Boston.

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Bishop Alan Gates giving annual convention address 2019
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Video and text of the address given by Bishop Alan M. Gates on Saturday, Nov. 2, 2019, at the 234th annual convention of the Diocese of Massachusetts.

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In a powerful message preached on Boston Common in April 2019, Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry proclaimed the power of following Jesus in the way of love.  This Diocese of Massachusetts video premiered at our annual Diocesan Convention on Nov. 2, 2019, to help us continue to reflect and act on the seven spiritual practices Presiding Bishop Curry invites us to take on to support us on our journey.

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Diocesan Convention proceedings at the Back Bay Events Center will be webcast live on Saturday, Nov. 2. Click on the link below and then follow onscreen instructions to join the webcast: https://zoom.us/j/956875686 If you are a new Zoom user, you will be prompted to download and run Zoom, which…
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