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January is a time to contemplate New Years' resolutions. If you're resolved to make a difference for our global environment this year, here are some tips for caring for creation through your food [...]

Following a Jan. 6 noon Epiphany service at Church of the Epiphany in Washington, D.C., Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop Michael Curry shared words of reflection and exhortation to the church [...]

After prayerful consideration, Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe has invited diocesan leaders, including representative voices from parishes around the Diocese and members of the Diocesan Board, Standing [...]

As we celebrate the Incarnation, what does it mean to be grieving and loving, sorrowful and hopeful, at the same time? Bishop Duncan-Probe's 2021 Christmas message is a reflection on God's [...]

"The Christmas stories are reminders that this Jesus came to show us how to love as God loves. And one of the ways we love as God loves is to help those who are refugees, those who seek asylum [...]

Dr. Jessica Shand of the University of Rochester Medical Center gives a brief overview of the “knowns and unknowns” in this stage of the COVID-19 pandemic, and offers a perspective on how [...]

The use of fossil fuels contributes significantly to climate change. In this month's Green Corner, GreenFaith Fellow Kip Coerper offers suggestions for reducing our personal fossil fuel use and [...]

When you look out your window, what do you see: objects created by humans, such as buildings, streets, various kinds of wiring strung on poles? If you see a meadow, who put it there? If it’s a [...]

It was three days before Thanksgiving and St. James' was bustling. In the office was Karen, on volunteer secretarial duty, catching every free dinner order. In walks John, having finished a [...]

Watch "The Spirit of the Lord is upon us," a sermon preached by the Rt. Rev. Dr. DeDe Duncan-Probe, eleventh Bishop of Central New York, at the service of Holy Eucharist for the 153rd Diocesan [...]