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Bishop Gayle Harris shares some of her personal experiences with faith-based community organizing. 

Bishop Alan Gates shares some of his personal experiences with faith-based community organizing. 

Keynote given by Dr. Mark Warren, professor at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, at the 2015 Spring Learning Day. Dr. Mark Warren is a sociologist concerned with the revitalization of American democratic and community life. An associate professor in the Department of Public Policy and…

Keynote address at the 2015 Spring Learning Event by Alexie Torres-Fleming, an activist, community organizer, advocate and urban planner from the South Bronx, New York. She is the Executive Director of Access Strategies Fund, a Cambridge-based organization that funds social justice work that…

The Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts is welcoming Cindy Cushman to the staff as the new human resources and benefits manager. Cushman will be managing daily operations in HR for both the diocesan and Cathedral Church of St. Paul staffs, including staffing, salary and benefits administration, and…

About 150 people gathered at Christ Church in Needham on March 7 for the annual diocesan Spring Learning Event, this year on "Mobilizing the Church: From Dreaming to Doing." Episcopal City Mission and the Diocese of Massachusetts offered the program together. Tracy J. Sukraw …

The pilgrims at St. George's Guest House, Jerusalem. St. George's Guest House is a ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem. (Nov. 2014) Peter Jeffrey Pilgrims renewing their baptismal vows at the Jordan River. (Nov. 2014). Peter Jeffrey …

The team at the Barbara C. Harris Camp and Conference Center in Greenfield, N.H., is busily preparing for the summer 2015 season. Camp director Alessia Doss says that the center is looking forward to hosting a “more regional” group of campers this year, drawing children and youth from the dioceses…

Few corners of the country have received as much snow overload as Boston and its environs, where  aging transportation systems and inadequate snow-removal budgets brought normal life to a virtual halt over a period of weeks. Members of  First Lutheran (ELCA) of Malden discovered the…

When Rev. Edgar Gutierrez-Duarte arrived in Chelsea in 2007, there was a small closet with a few rows of non-perishable food items in the St. Luke’s Episcopal Church that Father Edgar’s predecessor had left behind and had sometimes handed out to the hungry.It had been an act of service that was…