The Episcopal Diocese of Newark

The John Shelby Spong Lectureship: James Carroll, May 17 at St. Peter's in Morristown

On Bishop Beckwith’s blog: "Bullying, ego and soul"

A Conversation with Anthony Briggs, Executive Director of Cross Roads Camp & Retreat Center

Make a difference in honor of Father's Day at a Habitat build

Save the date for our first annual multi-county Habitat build day on June 16

Keeping the Sabbath: A Lay Person Reflects on Her Lenten Experiment

The History of the Homeless Shelter is the Story of Hoboken

In the News: The Hoboken Shelter Celebrates Its 30th Anniversary

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."

The Rt. Rev. Mark Beckwith, Bishop of Newark

Writing for The Steward’s Well, an e-newsletter from the Office of Stewardship of The Episcopal Church, Bishop Beckwith reflects on the discipline needed to live into the gift of Easter -- and how developing the holy habits of worship, prayer, study, and giving of self and treasure can prepare us to fully receive the abundance of the Easter blessing.

Alleluia Stories: St. Paul's After School Program in Paterson, NJ

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.

Volunteers serve meals at the Hoboken Homeless Shelter.

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.

Service at St. George's in Maplewood prays for 11 million victims

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.

The Rev. Sheelagh Clarke and St. Stephen's parishioners cleaning up after Irene

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....”