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Children’s Services of Roxbury (CSR) founders the Rev. Richard Richardson and Jestina Richardson received the Drum Major Award at the 54th Annual Martin Luther King Memorial Breakfast on Jan. 15 for their extraordinary contributions to justice, diversity and inclusion efforts in Boston. The…

St. Paul’s Church of Malden, an Episcopal church located at 26 Washington Street and Florence Street, was built in 1913. The Malden City Council at a recent meeting formally congratulated St. Paul’s Church on its 110th year. Ward 4 Councillor Ryan O’Malley noted the church is one of the few places…

For nearly 20 years, St. John's Church in Sandwich has displayed a giant illuminated sculpture representing the shield of The Episcopal Church in the garden at the front of the church at 159 Main Street, starting Thanksgiving week and continuing through Christmas. The illuminated wire sculpture…

Ron Bearse, a member of St. Mary's Church in Barnstable Village, and Caronanne Procaccini, the director of Client Self-Sufficiency and Compliance at the Community Action Committee of Cape & Islands, talk about the Thanksgiving Turkeys for Cape Codders program.  As part of efforts to address…

The holiday season is one of the busiest times of the year for organists and the unique instruments they play. However, for curious listeners, this also means it’s one of the easiest times to hear these instruments sounding off live. And you should hear them live, since no two organs, or spaces…

An outreach group is upgrading to more spacious quarters to house women experiencing homelessness in Falmouth through the winter months. Belonging To Each Other has teamed up with St. Barnabas’s Church to offer a home with more bedrooms and common areas than they have had in the past as a refuge…

Filming “St. Jones Ditch” has brought director Jeffrey Long, writer Sarah Brockmann and the cast and crew all over Rhode Island, the South Shore and the South Coast. The only complication? The movie takes place in East Texas.  The latest location to pose as the titular Lone Star town is…

When the leaders of Bristol Lodge, a food pantry and soup kitchen operated by Middlesex Human Service Agency, learned earlier this year that the Waltham church they had been working out of for 18 years needed its space back, they set to work finding a new home. This month, Bristol Lodge began…

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Beverly has called the Rev. Christopher Whiteman to serve as the 16th rector in the church’s history. Whiteman was formally installed as rector on Oct. 20 by the Rt. Rev. Carol Gallagher, assistant bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, in a ceremony at…

The Rev. Eric Fialho, rector at St. Gabriel’s Episcopal Church in Marion, “holds out hope” that all dogs go to heaven. “I think that God in his wisdom has a place for all living beings who have had breath on this Earth and that includes the spider and everything else,” he said. And on Sunday, Oct…