Diocesan News

Following the conference’s opening Eucharist at Canterbury Cathedral on July 20, about 33 bishops, including New Hampshire’s Gene Robinson (right) and Massachusetts bishop suffragan Gayle Harris (left), shared the Eucharist in a nearby field within view of the cathedral towers during a service that…

Bishop Shaw visiting Barnham CEVC Primary School in Suffolk, England Before arriving at Canterbury for the Lambeth Conference, Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE spent three days in the Diocese of St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich, part of a pre-Lambeth hospitality initiative. While there,…

The three bishops of the Diocese of Massachusetts are among the 650 Anglican Communion bishops participating in the once-a-decade Lambeth Conference, now underway in Canterbury, England.  The conference runs from July 16-Aug. 3. This Lambeth Conference is the second for M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE,…

Bishop Barbara C. Harris (r.) receives standing ovation at the ECM annual dinner from, among others, Bishops Tom Shaw and Gayle Harris (ctr.). Episcopal City Mission (ECM) honored church and community leaders for their social justice work during the organization’s annual banquet…

Left: Bishop Sebastian Bakare (l.); center: a locked church door; right: children at a backyard service in Harare Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE returned June 3 from a week in the Anglican Diocese of Harare, Zimbabwe, where he had traveled at the request of Presiding Bishop…

An appreciative audience listens to Marcus Borg discuss his view of Jesus. See photos from this event>> | Watch video of session 1>> | Watch video of session 2>> Some 400 people gathered at Boston University on March 15, the eve of Holy Week, to hear New Testament scholar…