A roundup of coverage of the installation of the Most Rev. Michael Curry, 27th Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, including a video of the full Installation service.
[The Montclair Times] The U.S. Supreme Court made a historic ruling Friday, June 26, allowing same-sex marriage throughout the nation. The issue has frequently been a subject of controversy within religious institutions. Some of the house of worship leaders in and around Montclair spoke with The Montclair Times about their opinions on the matter.
This piece was published as an op-ed in the Star-Ledger on May 30, 2015.
This Monday, the N.J. Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee will hear bill 4218, legislation that would require domestic abusers to turn in their guns. This is just one of two critical pieces of public safety legislation currently before our state legislature. The other is Senate bill 2785/Assembly bill 4348, which fixes a dangerous gap in our state's gun background checks law.
[The Daily Record] A new chapter of Emotions Anonymous, a 12-step program for people struggling with emotional difficulties, is meeting Friday nights at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church on Maple Avenue.
[The Alternative Press] The dead body of a male adult was found by dog walkers at approximately 6:30 a.m. Wednesday morning at the playground behind the Gardern Court apartments, near the Chatham Middle School.
The death, an apparent suicide, is being investigated by the Chatham Borough Police and the Morris County Prosecutors Office. According to Chatham Police Chief Phil Crosson, authorities are confirming the identity and notifying next-of-kin before releasing any information.
[NorthJersey.com] St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Paterson is hosting an ecumenical prayer service in memory of Genesis Rincon on Tuesday, August 5 as part of the city’s National Night Out Against Crime observance.
[Episcopal News Service] It’s a “family reunion” like no other: 250 adults, young and older, are gathered at the Golden Nugget Hotel and Casino for 46th annual meeting and conference of the Union of Black Episcopalians, a confederation of more than 35 chapters and groups in the U.S. and the Caribbean, with members in Canada, Africa and Latin America.
[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.
