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A permaculture webinar in 2020 will blossom into the real deal at St. Barnabas's Episcopal Church on May 27 when volunteers will tear up a lawn and replace grass with native plants and fruit trees. The effort will turn a 2,500 square-foot grassy area near Siders Pond into one rich with food and…

Surrendered guns got a new, more peaceful purpose at an event at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth on Wednesday that took inspiration from a Bible verse. “It’s a change for an instrument with the potential for tremendous harm to an instrument of nurturing,” said Bishop James Curry,…

"When [the] Rev. Scott Ciosek started 'The Bridge: A Center for Hope and Healing,' a nonprofit based out of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in 2015, he hoped to expand mental health into a region he found had 'less access' compared to other areas of the commonwealth. “'So many people in this…

"When two large families that had fled Afghanistan moved into the basement of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Newburyport just over a year ago, there were 15 kids between two sets of parents. Today they're still living in the church, and there's a 16th child. "Advocates helping them say the fact…

Duke Divinity School's Faith & Leadership online magazine features CRECHE, the Charles River Episcopal Co-Housing Endeavor, and its "community-focused alternative to the for-profit housing market that is rooted in relationship and mutuality: co-housing communities in which people live like families…

Last year Old North Church began a broader rethinking about how to re-tell the complicated parts of its history of how slavery intertwined with the cries for freedom fueling the American Revolution. Not an easy task, considering that the church’s original steeple, the famous spire that signaled …

More than 100 volunteers gathered at St. Mary’s Church in Newton last month for a community meal-packing event to address food insecurity around the world. Volunteers packed nearly 13,000 meals at the event called “World Hunger Day Community Meal Packing” on Oct. 15, with help from the nonprofit…

On Sunday afternoon, Sept. 25, more than 50 residents turned out to watch as leaders of the Marblehead Racial Justice Team, a local advocacy group, unveiled a new replica of the original headstone placed for Agnes, an enslaved woman who died in 1718 and was buried in her enslaver's family plot on…

"Nearly 50 volunteers on Martha’s Vineyard who helped shelter and feed the Venzuelan migrants flown to the island last week gathered for a time of shared reflection on Thursday. Many who gathered at St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Edgartown, the same shelter where the 48 migrants stayed for two…

Correspondents Diane Bair and Pamela Wright take a tour of Old North Church, established in 1723 as Christ Church in the City of Boston and now both a national historic landmark operated by the Old North Foundation and an active Episcopal Church congregation.