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Soon after the Boston Marathon bombings, local Christian leaders stepped swiftly into the public eye, convening vigils and urging peaceful healing in the wake of senseless violence. But their public voices have fallen mostly silent as noisy resistance grows to the prospect that suspected bomber…

View a photo gallery from the walk, here, and Bishop Shaw's video, here, and read the Boston Globe story, here. On Mother’s Day, May 12, Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE will lead an Episcopal Church contingent, expected to number at least several hundred walkers from parishes across the Diocese of…

The nautilus, publicly lit for the first time, on May 8. PHOTO: Tracy J. Sukraw Blue background going up above, nautilus sculpture waiting in its crate below. PHOTO: Tracy J. Sukraw The nautilus is lowered…

A crane lifted the large piece of sculpture and placed it within the empty pediment of the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, high above Tremont Street, on a recent sunny morning. In traveling 60 feet skyward, the piece, made of hand-formed aluminum and weighing 650 pounds, completed a journey that, in…

It was a very different scene on the lawn of the Church of Our Saviour, with rock music and motorcycle riders replacing hymns and church-goers. The transformation Sunday afternoon was part of the Episcopal church’s second annual Blessing of the Motorcycles.

View video, photos and media coverage from the event here. While mainline denominations don’t often hold revivals, the compelling need for people of faith Jeremy Marin From left):…

[Episcopal News Service] They all may not have been able to get to their churches, but in the hours after the second of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings was captured April 19, Episcopalians in the Boston area continued to support each other and their neighbors. Police captured…

With the remaining Boston Marathon bombing suspect apprehended the evening of April 19, after a day of lock-down in Boston and surrounding communities, particularly Watertown where the search was intensely focused, Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE issued the following message:"It’s a relief to have the…

[Episcopal News Service] The Rev. Amy McCreath awoke in Washington, D.C., April 19 to learn that her parish, the Church of the Good Shepherd in Watertown, was close to the epicenter of an unprecedented manhunt for the second of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing.  She also learned…

The diocesan and cathedral offices at 138 Tremont Street in Boston are closed today, April 19, due to ongoing police activity related to the search for and apprehension of Marathon bombing suspects.  The MBTA system has been shut down, and residents of Watertown, Cambridge and several other…