Clergy

Hundreds of people crowded into a sweltering South Orange auditorium on July 12 for an evening of candid conversation about recent police-involved shootings – including the highly questionable shooting deaths of black men by white police officers in Baton Rouge and Minnesota, as well as the assassination of five white police officers by a black gunman in Dallas.

Bishop Edmond Lee Browning, the 24th presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, died on July 11, 2016. He was 87 years old and was living in Oregon.

Thirty choristers from around the state of New Jersey gathered at the Church of St. Andrew and Holy Communion in South Orange on Saturday, April 23 for the third annual Royal School of Church Music (RSCM) New Jersey Choral Festival. This year’s event was conducted by Loraine Enlow, music associate for youth choirs at St. James’ Church, Madison Avenue in New York City.

[Morristown Green] Hundreds held hands and sang songs by candlelight Wednesday on the Morristown Green, and heard eloquent clergy members try to find hope in the tragedy of Orlando.

[The Record] St. Paul’s Episcopal Church of Paterson, looking ahead to its 200th year and the start of its third century in the gritty city that is its home, celebrated the anniversary Sunday with a proclamation vowing to continue its mission into future.

[NVTV News] “Even as the economy has progressed and gotten better, and people have gone back to work, hunger is still a really prevalent problem,” said Diane Riley, director of advocacy for the Community FoodBank of New Jersey.

More than 1 million people in New Jersey don’t get enough food to eat on a daily basis, a startling reality in one of the wealthiest states in the nation.