Responding to President Obama's statement yesterday that "Same-sex couples should be able to get married," the Rev. Bernard "Bernie" Poppe of St. George's Church in Maplewood tells columnist Bob Braun of The Star-Ledger, "...I don’t think love ever destroyed anything."
In this video, Shantia Clyburn of St. Paul's After School Program describes how the Alleluia Fund supports their work providing enrichment programming and one-on-one homework assistance to second through fifth graders in Paterson, NJ.
Thirty years ago Geoff Curtiss was a young, recently ordained Episcopal reverend and eager to minister to an urban congregation. He found one in Hoboken.
Soon after, he also found himself in a fight raging along several battle lines—about politics, poverty, development, progress, gentrification, class warfare and the role of religion in the community—which resulted in the founding of the Hoboken Homeless Shelter, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary on Thursday.
Helen Paktor was not going to miss the 35th annual Interfaith Holocaust Remembrance Service on April 22.
As a survivor of Auschwitz and two other concentration camps, she sat with nine other survivors who served as living reminders of the Holocaust.
The wooden pews of St. George’s Episcopal Church in Maplewood were filled with a crowd of about 230 people, some wearing yarmulkes, the traditional Jewish head coverings.
When the raging Rahway River flooded much of Millburn [during Hurricane Irene], Patch reported that St. Stephen’s Church “was one of the first hit as water rushed through, filling the pre-school with four to five feet of water....”
Local sculptors, jewelers and artists from All Saints Episcopal Church in Glen Rock on Easter Sunday will premiere the first parishioner art show.
According to Rector Rev. Timothy Burger, over 80 pieces of art crafted by those young and old, will be used throughout the worship space and the parish hall.
On Good Friday, the day Christians commemorate Jesus’ crucifixion, the Rev. Melissa Hall, assistant rector at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Morristown, led an interactive children’s Stations of the Cross service for about 50 people. Children read short Scripture verses and played various biblical characters as they walked to different locations throughout the church, re-enacting Jesus journey from judgement by Roman governor Pontius Pilate to his death on the cross.
Perhaps St. John’s Memorial Church in Ramsey can’t eradicate world hunger, but on Saturday, February 25 they made a significant step toward filling the bellies of 10,000 children at a food packaging event with Stop Hunger Now!, an international hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food and other life-saving aid around the world.
Leni Muscarella had a gift for hospitality. So it’s a sure bet he would have loved the recent party thrown at his home parish of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Morristown to celebrate the dedication of the expanded and renovated kitchen named in his honor.
It's been 30 years of helping people in need.
And they all have different stories.
Anne Mernin, who is the director of outreach at St. Luke's Episcopal Church and heads its food ministry, Toni's Kitchen, sees people walking into the soup kitchen with children. She sees individuals who have mental disabilities, and people who have to choose between buying groceries or paying their rent.
Mernin admits it can be heart-wrenching.
But the best part of her job is seeing many people get back on their feet.
