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In Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe, Featured, Outreach, Way of Love

Posted July 17, 2019

Watch video: Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe speaks at Syracuse Lights for Liberty vigil

Watch above: Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe spoke Friday, July 12, 2019 at the Syracuse Lights for Liberty vigil to end inhumane conditions in US migrant detention camps. The demonstration was part of [...]

By Contributor

In Featured, Outreach, Youth

Posted July 14, 2019

CNY youth and families attend National Karen Episcopal Youth Day in Smyrna, Tennesee

On July 4-5, 2019, approximately 30 people from the Diocese of Central New York participated in the second annual National Karen Episcopal Youth Day. This year the host parish was All Saints' [...]

By Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe

In Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe, Featured, Outreach

Posted July 9, 2019

The humanitarian crisis at the US/Mexico border: an invitation to prayer and faithful action from Bishop DeDe

Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York invites fellow Christians to pray and act in response to the humanitarian crisis unfolding at the border of the United States [...]

By Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe

In Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe, Featured

Posted December 24, 2018

“God is laying down all that God could…” Christmas reflections from Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe

In Jesus’ birth and crucifixion, God is laying down all that God could…in order to have relationship with us. Merry Christmas! Watch above: Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe of the Episcopal [...]

By Meredith Sanderson

In Featured, Presiding Bishop

Posted December 18, 2018

“God so loved the world, that he gave.” Presiding Bishop Michael Curry’s Christmas message

“Love came down at Christmas, because God so loved the world, that he gave.” Watch a Christmas message from the Most Rev. Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church. A transcript is [...]

By Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe

In Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe, Featured

Posted December 18, 2018

“We have an opportunity to incarnate, to embody, a different message to the world…” Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe’s Christmas message

Watch above: Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe of the Episcopal Diocese of Central New York offers a Christmas message for 2018. What does it mean to embody, to incarnate, a message that love is stronger [...]

By Meredith Sanderson

In Congregational Development, Featured

Posted December 13, 2018

Epiphany resources from The Episcopal Church

Image via Wikipedia (CC BY 4.0) Thinking about your formation offerings for the season of Epiphany, January 6th through Ash Wednesday? Realistically, you’re probably focusing on Advent and [...]

By Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe

In Bishop DeDe Duncan-Probe, Convention 2018, Featured

Posted November 1, 2018

Bishop DeDe: Stand for love, and love our neighbors as ourselves

You and I are called as peoples and followers of Jesus to do what Jesus told us, which is to love our neighbors. We don’t get to choose or select— or criticize even, really—who our [...]

By Meredith Sanderson

In Congregational Development, Featured, Outreach

Posted August 9, 2018

Small town unites to welcome refugees

image above: Community and faith groups in Cazenovia came together to welcome this young refugee family to the small village with support from InterFaith Works of Central New York’s Center [...]

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In General Convention

Posted July 16, 2018

Deputies’ Perspective: Relationship & Prayer

Karen Anderson, Deputy to the 79th General Convention, values time spent on relationships and prayer at #GC79.