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This year’s annual diocesan Spring Learning Event on Saturday, March 5 will be part of a larger local “Episcopal Village Mission Event” focusing on reaching new communities and sharing the Gospel in new ways.  A five-part Epiphany study is available to help everyone get ready.  Find…

I love children's Christmas pageants.  I love the chaos, the crowns, the halos and the angel wings.  I love watching the littlest kids, the ones who are almost always the sheep or the shepherds of the multitude of heavenly hosts.Maybe I've seen a hundred Christmas pageants in my ministry,…

Bishop M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE has announced that the diocese will not elect a second bishop suffragan when Bishop Bud Cederholm retires in November 2011. “We will instead reallocate resources in order to hire in 2011 an archdeacon to oversee congregational development, strategic ministries that are…

11/22/10:  The people of St. James’s Church in Amesbury this week sent three $1,000 checks to local agencies serving the community: PHOTO: Courtesy of St. James’s Church Fair co…

I recently attended a worship service where the preacher took as his text I Thessalonians 5:18, in which St. Paul is ending his letter to the Christians in the strategically located city of Thessalonica.  Paul is encouraging them to maintain…