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It was a long day of statistics and storytelling at the State House on Sept. 13, as hundreds gathered in Gardner Auditorium to give and hear testimony on proposed changes to the state's gun laws.Sixty-some gun reform bills are before the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security, and…

Two new members joined the diocesan and cathedral staffs over the summer.The Rev. Canon Connie Ng Lam has been named the new canon for Asiamerican ministries and will serve as priest to the Episcopal Boston Chinese Ministry at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul.Ellen Stuart has been hired as…

When the 86-year-old Thich Nhat Hanh was introduced to his audience in Copley Square on Sunday afternoon, he began by saying nothing for 25 minutes. Hanh, a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk who is an internationally respected peace activist and author, was in Boston as part of a US tour.

Right after college Adrian Robbins-Cole became an investment banker. Twenty years ago he changed course and was ordained into the Episcopal Church. In September, Robbins-Cole assumed the role of rector at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Wellesley. St. Andrew’s is the largest of the three churches…

Sept. 3 was the first official day of classes at Epiphany School in Dorchester. But unlike many school-age kids, students at Epiphany haven’t spent the summer anticipating their return to school—in fact, these hardworking students never really left. Epiphany students spent their summer at an…

The B-SAFE program has wrapped up another summer of providing programming for elementary and middle-school aged kids, and paid jobs and internships to teens and young adults.  Across six Boston-area locations (South End, Lower Roxbury, Upham’s Corner-Dorchester, Codman Square-Dorchester,…

Sept. 6, 2013:  Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE and Bishop Gayle E. Harris of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts today issued the following statement on Syria: "Lord, make us instruments of your peace..."In the aftermath of the horror of toxic gas…

St. Cyprian’s Church, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, began in a small parlor room in a house on Northampton Street in Roxbury, where a number of people gathered for worship. The group, made up mostly of immigrants from the…

Esperanza Academy, an independent school for middle-school girls from low-income families in Lawrence, is entering the new school year with an expanded faculty, a thriving sports program and a reinvigorated sense of Episcopal identity.  They also have major cause for celebration:  100…

St. Peter's Church in Beverly is celebrating  its 150th anniversary this year.  In thanksgiving for 150 years in Beverly, the parish set a goal of raising $3,000 to purchase 150 backpacks for Beverly Bootstraps "Back to School Bonanza." Every year, Beverly Bootstraps supplies more than…