The Episcopal Diocese of Newark

Special Convention Saturday, June 9

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

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

Feature article: Nurturing a Culture of Abundance

Join us for a forum on July 18, "Written for Our Learning: A Variety of Approaches to Scripture"

The church is in the midst of a new reformation, and the stakes couldn’t be higher, a prominent progressive speaker told a Morristown audience.

“Religion must stop being what it has been until now, which has been an essential source of intolerance, contempt for the other and even mad apocalyptic violence,” James Carroll said recently at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church. “Survival of religions is not the issue. Neither therefore is survival of the church.”

What matters, he said, is survival of humankind.

If pledge payments are down and the roof is leaking again, it’s easy for a congregation to fall into the habit of focusing on surviving, rather than thriving. The Rev. Canon Gregory A. Jacobs, Canon to the Ordinary, hopes to combat this tendency through congregational cultural change.

“We’ve latched on firmly to a theology of scarcity,” Jacobs said. Congregations need to refocus on the fact that church “is not about the building, it’s about the ministry.”

Alleluia Stories: Toni's Kitchen in Montclair, NJ

"We actually met [at Toni's Kitchen] as volunteers and have been married for almost five years now. And we're still volunteering, and still married!"

In this video, Jim Snodgrass and Pat Moulton describe the rewards of working at Toni's Kitchen, a food ministry at St. Luke's in Montclair that feeds 60-80 people, three days a week.

On Mother's Day, the Mother of All Races

On Mother's Day more than 300 runners, including children and parents pushing strollers, participated in the "Mother of All Races," a waterfront-route race in Hoboken. Organized jointly by the Hoboken Harriers running club and All Saints Community Development Corporation, the runner registration fees will go to All Saints' Jubilee Center, an after-school program for under-served children who live in public housing.

Children’s Day of Art at Redeemer, Morristown.

St. Peter’s Episcopal Church in Morristown became an artists’ colony on Saturday. Make that a young artists’ colony.

Some 55 kids ages 6-13 participated in a Children’s Day of Art, rotating through workshops in cartooning, drama, eco-sculpture, music, poetry and pottery–with a lunchtime break to create “food art.”