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Episcopal City Mission has distributed $2.75 million in reparations to 25 Massachusetts organizations led by people of color that work on racial and economic justice.

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[Religion News Service] On Ash Wednesday this year, about a dozen people attended a noon service at Old North Church in Boston, Massachusetts, founded in 1723. Two days later, a handful of worshippers took part in a Shabbat service at Touro Synagogue in Newport, Rhode Island, dedicated in 1763. Congregations participating in sacred rituals — it is something both houses of worship have been doing longer than the United States has existed.
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Episcopal News Service reports on St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church in Dover reaching carbon neutrality four years ahead of The Episcopal Church’s 2030 goal.
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Standing behind the bow of the boat-shaped pulpit in the sanctuary of St. Andrew’s Church, the Rev. Vincent (“Chip”) Seadale delivered his final sermon as the Edgartown church’s priest on April 27.  Twenty years after answering the call to serve a higher purpose, Seadale is retiring and…
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As churches across the country observed Good Friday, more than 100 congregations also rang their bells to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Old North Church’s lantern signal at the start of the American Revolution. The “Let Freedom Ring!” project, initiated by the Center for Media and…
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As the state works to adapt and find alternative solutions to divert families from shelters, a network of nearly a dozen churches in the Greater Boston Area has collaborated with the Brazilian Workers Center — an immigrant support and advocacy organization— to fill in the gaps. “We began working…
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Dozens of people gathered on the town common in Franklin April 6 to share song and prayer at a vigil in response to two hateful acts of vandalism in town last week, including one that targeted a Jewish temple. "The acts of vandalism to the temple this week are acts of violence," said Rev. Kathy…
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Lowell's early history was inextricably linked to slavery through its many cotton mills where young women from rural New England and immigrants from Europe wove what Black people from slave-holding states in the South picked.  One vehement opponent of slavery was the first rector at St. Anne…
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A thrift shop in Sandwich open for nearly 50 years has undergone a redesign, renaming and will now offer consignments, as well. St. John's Thrift Boutique, as the shop is now known, is at 163 Main Street. It's open year-round from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays. The grand reopening…
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