The Union of Black Episcopalians Diocese of Newark Chapter will celebrate the life and ministry of the Rev. Absalom Jones, the first person of African descent ordained a deacon and priest in the Episcopal Church.
The Union of Black Episcopalians Diocese of Newark Chapter will celebrate the life and ministry of the Rev. Absalom Jones, the first person of African descent ordained a deacon and priest in the Episcopal Church.
The evening of May 26, parishioners from St. Elizabeth’s, Ridgewood; All Saints’, Glen Rock; and Christ Church, Ridgewood gathered to celebrate a service of Closing Eucharist and a fellowship potluck dinner to mark the completion of Sacred Ground, a five-month dialogue series on race and faith produced by The Episcopal Church.
After a two-year hiatus, parishioners at Calvary Church in Summit were excited to gather again for Lent. In the early planning stages two major goals emerged: to share a meal together in community and to build upon last year’s virtual discussions on Becoming Beloved Community. That’s where the curriculum Tell Me the Truth About Racism comes in.
Rosamund "Pat" Love, Raymond "Beau" Drakeford, Sonya Collins and Lucinda Williams share the history of St. Cyprian's, Hackensack, an historically black church founded in 1925 by their grandparents' generation.
Anne Calloway, who has experienced more than half a century of history at Trinity & St. Philip's Cathedral in Newark, shares her memories of the Very Rev. Dillard Robinson, III – the first Black cathedral dean in the Episcopal Church – and the founding of St. Philip's Academy.
Gail Barkley shares her memories of St. Philip's Church in Newark, which started as an offspring of Trinity Cathedral. After losing their church building to a fire, the congregation of St. Philip's returned to Trinity to form what we now know as Trinity & St. Philip's Cathedral.
Robert Cottingham's great-grandmother brought his family into Church of the Epiphany in Orange. Now he shares their multi-generation experience of this historically Black congregation, which survived and thrived when the neighboring white congregations that turned away Black worshipers did not.
Carol Harrison-Arnold, a member of Episcopal congregations in Jersey City since the early 1990s, describes her experience of Church of the Incarnation in Jersey City, one of the Diocese of Newark's historically Black congregations, and the challenges it has faced.
These 16 movies are recommended by Bishop Hughes and her staff.
