The Episcopal House staff is pleased to welcome their new team member, Jane Jubilee, who started on June 3 as part-time Administrative Assistant, working Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
[NorthJersey.com] Local children are getting a lesson in the value of water as they work to get some for a community in need.
The Sunday School children at Christ Episcopal Church in Pompton Lakes are in the process of raising money for the Episcopal Relief and Development group to provide a water well for a village or town in an underdeveloped international region.
[Parsippany Life] The Whippany River Watershed Action Committee and Saint Gregory's Episcopal Church conducted a rain barrel workshop at the church on Saturday, May 3.
[Morristown Green] How could white Christians condone the persecution of blacks for centuries in America?
And how were African Americans able to persevere and survive such oppression?
James Cone, a scholar known as the founder of black liberation theology, spent a decade researching those complex subjects for his 2011 book, The Cross and the Lynching Tree.
The author pulled no punches in a recent talk at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Morristown, where he delivered a powerful and passionate analysis of racism, faith, love and hope as guest lecturer in the Christine Mary and John Shelby Spong Lecture Series.
[The Express-Times] For the fifth year in a row the Phillipsburg Ministerial Alliance, convened by the Rev. Thomas Mathews, rector of St. Luke's Church in Phillipsburg, celebrated National Day of Prayer on May 1.
“Darkness and danger – they’re not the only things that live here,” said the Rt. Rev. Mark Beckwith, Bishop of the Diocese of Newark, after praying the Stations of the Cross on Good Friday at 14 sites of violent crimes in Jersey City.
Jersey City’s three Episcopal congregations – St. Paul’s Church in Bergen, Church of the Incarnation and Grace Church Van Vorst – organized the procession, which drew more than 80 participants. Worshipers included members of neighboring churches, city officials and local police, who spent nearly two hours walking, praying and singing together along the 2.25 mile route.
An opportunity for interested lay people to engage with Bishop Mark Beckwith in Bible study and a conversation about discipleship and mission.
An opportunity for interested lay people to engage with Bishop Mark Beckwith in Bible study and a conversation about discipleship and mission.
[Episcopal News Service – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma] The Rev. Joseph Harmon, rector of Christ Church, East Orange, New Jersey, in the Diocese of Newark describes an effort to get state and local law enforcement agencies to discuss safe-gun technology with their firearm vendors. Harmon says that, after the U.S. military and other federal law-enforcement agencies, state and local police form the largest single group of gun buys in the United States and, thus, could be a strong advocacy voice.
Saturday, April 5 was a busy day in the Diocese of Newark, with educational events on Stewardship and Latino/Hispanic ministry drawing attendees from throughout the diocese.
