by | Dec 19, 2022 10:29 am | Comments (16)
Bishop William J. Barber II.
One of the country’s leading civil rights leaders has taken a new job in New Haven to train a next generation of faith-inspired advocates for social and economic justice.
by | Dec 16, 2022 1:11 pm | Comments (1)
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Rabbis Brian Immerman and Eric Woodward at WNHH FM.
When it turns dark Sunday, it will also turn light — for eight straight nights.
by | Nov 28, 2022 10:28 am | Comments (0)
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Krissel and Ryan Mendez with Jamie Zhuzhingo at Friday's coat drive.
Eight-year-old Ryan Mendez is now no longer afraid of the wind and the rain — thanks to a crisp new blue-and-white jacket he scored at a Fair Haven coat drive led by a locally based, internationally operating Catholic fraternal order.
by | Nov 21, 2022 9:14 am | Comments (4)
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Maurice Gorowsky (right) with Lawrence Dressler.
The following eulogy was written by Lawrence Dressler and read on Sunday at the funeral of Maurice Gorowsky, a longtime friend of his and a World War II veteran who passed away this weekend at the age of 99. He was buried at the Beth Israel cemetery on Fitch Street between Whalley and Jewell.
Maurice Gorowsky was born on April 20, 1923 in Philadelphia to Russian Jewish immigrants Bella Liebman and Louis Gorowsky.
by | Nov 11, 2022 9:55 am | Comments (1)
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Carl Harvey with one of the three vehicles the group hopes to ship next month.
As a young nurse training at Walter Reed Medical Center during the Vietnam War, Jane Ryzewski knows firsthand how much care and how many supplies are needed to help injured soldiers.
Which is why she joined three dozen fellow volunteers at the Ukrainian Catholic Church on George Street to organize and prepare to ship out an ever-growing assemblage of medical supplies and winter clothing to the front lines of another international conflict that is now in its ninth month.
Continue reading ‘As Winter Nears, Local Aid To Ukraine Grows’
by | Oct 31, 2022 11:08 am | Comments (2)
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Congregant Josue Ortiz shows how it's done.
Josue Ortiz sounded the shofar, but it wasn’t the Jewish Day of Atonement. He wasn’t even in a synagogue.
The site was the Estrella Resplandeciente de Jacob, the Radiant Star of Jacob Church in Fair Haven, where the spirit and service of long-time pastors Javier and Shari Diaz were trumpeted, along with the help of an official certificate presented by U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal.
by | Oct 26, 2022 9:31 am | Comments (1)
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Church volunteer Lois Fucci at the pumpkin patch.
Hamden Plains United Methodist Church has carved out a pumpkin patch on Dixwell Avenue — continuing a seasonal tradition of full-circle fundraising.
Continue reading ‘"Pumpkin Church" Gets Out The Gourds On Dixwell’
by | Sep 27, 2022 8:47 am | Comments (2)
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Jana Russo-Priestley, center, with wife Anne and father Arius.
Jana Russo-Priestly arrived at the Omni ballroom remembering the role that Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ (UCC) has played in three generations of her family’s history — as well as in two centuries of New Haven’s.
by | Sep 23, 2022 2:35 pm | Comments (2)
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Rabbi Michael Farbman at WNHH FM.
Michael Farbman let rip from a goat’s horn to awaken us to the brokenness of our world and inspire us to work toward healing it.
Continue reading ‘Horn Blasts Beckon Brokenness, Peace For The Days Of Awe’
by | Aug 29, 2022 9:17 am | Comments (1)
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Rev. Jeremiah Paul.
The Rev. Jeremiah Paul, pastor for Hamden Plains United Methodist Church, held his hand high as he spoke to the crowd assembled to hear him at Hamden’s Town Center Park on Friday evening. His audience were members of his congregation, but also from the greater New Haven community, a mix of languages, ages, cultures and creeds. Among them were artists selling their pieces and food truck vendors feeding the people.
“We had a little rain shower, which I consider a blessing from the heavens,” he said amiably. With the sun out, the show was ready to start.
by | Aug 15, 2022 9:50 am | Comments (2)
Scott Troublefield and New Vision.
Far out behind the crowded audience at Goffe Street Park, beyond still the stragglers who spread out among the opposing baseball diamond’s outfield, tucked just inside the entryway of the third-base dugout, a woman with gray hair and blue Nikes called out: “Amen!”
The Sunday sun had set, but the sound of gospel from the stage still echoed as far as Crescent Street. The woman, silhouetted by the park floodlights, said she was taking her church from all the way back there.
Continue reading ‘25th Annual Gospel Fest Transforms Goffe Street Park Into Church’
by | Aug 10, 2022 11:49 am | Comments (7)
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Developers and officials break Beulah ground.
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Sustainable, affordable housing envisioned for 340 Dixwell.
Faith leaders, politicians, and investors shoveled a pile of ceremonial dirt, breaking ground on a soon-to-rise apartment complex that will be sustainable not only for the earth, but for low-income families.
by | Aug 9, 2022 9:03 am | Comments (3)
Kristen Schick, coastal cleanup intern for environmental nonprofit Save the Sound, collecting trash during Sunday morning's cleanup at Criscuolo Park.
Hub cap. Fish skull. Brand new bucket hat. Bike chain. An entire picnic setup. And so, so many metal bottle caps.
These were among the items included in 200 pounds of trash collected by volunteers at Criscuolo Park on Sunday morning.
Continue reading ‘Peace Waged, Park Butts & Hub Caps Cleared On Interfaith Day of Service’
by | Aug 2, 2022 1:45 pm | Comments (3)
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A draft rendering of the Living Village addition, at the top left of the map, as it fits into the Divinity School's existing structure.
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Yale’s plans to build a new eco-friendly dormitory for divinity school students moved ahead, as alders unanimously signed off on a resolution stating that the project doesn’t require any amendment to the university’s central campus parking plan.
by | Aug 1, 2022 9:36 am | Comments (1)
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Dixwell UCC bicentennial planning committee members Joy W. Donaldson, Antonie Thorp, Estelle Whitfield Simpson, Clifton Graves Jr., Althea Musgrove Norcott, Helena Rogers, and Cheryl Gray.
The nation’s oldest African American United Congregational Church is celebrating 200 years of being rooted in community service, social justice, and humanitarian efforts.
by | Jul 27, 2022 3:47 pm | Comments (14)
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A draft rendering of the Living Village addition, at the top left of the map, as it fits into the Divinity School's existing structure.
The Yale Divinity School plans to build a dormitory that recycles its wastewater and generates all its own energy — aiming to create the first residential building to meet “Living Building Challenge” standards for sustainability.
by | Jul 20, 2022 6:28 pm | Comments (11)
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Rabbi Greer.
Incarcerated sex offender Rabbi Daniel Greer left his prison cell Wednesday to come to a New Haven courtroom — where one of his alleged victims testified that Greer had indeed had sex with a former student … but waited until the boy was over the age of 16 years.
Greer was the one who arranged to have the witness come say that, in the hopes of obtaining a new trial.
by | Jul 12, 2022 2:05 pm | Comments (1)
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Religious and secular leaders gather for dialogue with police brass.
Fifty Black pastors and community activists filled the pews of First Calvary Baptist Church on Monday evening, offering visions for a new era of public safety to city leaders and one another.
Continue reading ‘Church Leaders & Cops Explore Post-Cox Policing’
by | Jul 11, 2022 8:55 am | Comments (1)
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Milton Collins at Sunday's St. Luke's picnic.
Forty parishioners from Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church threw a party Sunday morning — for their church, and for the 98th birthday of a parishioner named Milton Collins, who has ping-ponged and tap-danced his way around the world and back.
by | Jul 7, 2022 1:23 pm | Comments (1)
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Donated produce arrives at Sherman Avenue pop-up.
David Burgess at work with food-giveaway crew.
David Burgess, retired from stripping metal parts at the old Sargent’s factory, found himself on another assembly line Wednesday: breaking down emptied cantaloupe and watermelon boxes in a joint quest to nourish families.
by | Jun 7, 2022 1:36 pm | Comments (2)
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Sunday at Upon This Rock.
Pastor Christine Perry offered the assembled some advice that also described a journey she was launching at the pulpit.
“There may be a little turbulence,” she told them. “But if there is, just hold onto your seat, because we’re definitely going to get there.”
by | Jun 3, 2022 9:06 am | Comments (1)
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180 Center leaders join in prayer at dedication of new building.
Over 50 people gathered to celebrate the opening and dedication of a new building for The 180 Center, a Christian nonprofit that provides services for addiction and homelessness in New Haven.
Continue reading ‘"180 Center" Opens New Home On East Street To Address Homelessness, Addiction’
by | Jun 2, 2022 5:56 pm | Comments (6)
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Ghost gun recovered in connection with Maple Street gunfire.
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Apostle Valerie Washington with Jordan Strother, brother of homicide victim Anthony Strother, at vigil on South Genesee Street.
A group of young people, out for revenge for the killing of an 18-year-old, opened fire on a Maple Street house before speeding away in a car.
The murdered man’s 15-year-old brother was not in that car.
Chalk up that fact — along with the subsequent arrest of the four young people and the removal of two “ghost guns” from the streets — to the power of focused police work … and, perhaps, prayer.
Continue reading ‘Probe, Prayers Target Shooting Retaliation’
by | May 18, 2022 11:16 am | Comments (2)
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Upon This Rock Ministries at 882 Grand Ave.
As New Haven gears up for sunny summer days, Mark Washington is already thinking about the frigid weather next winter — and the community members who won’t have a place to shelter during cold emergencies.
Continue reading ‘Grand Avenue Ministry Pitches Warming Center’
by | May 9, 2022 8:41 am | Comments (3)
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Pastor Jack Perkins Davidson in the tree in front of Spring Glen Church.
With kids in colorful masks and skirts, praise of God as the “womb of life and source of being,” and a pastor high up in a sugar maple helping to secure a long gauzy rainbow banner, Spring Glen Church marked both Mother’s Day and the 25th anniversary of becoming an “open and affirming” congregation within the United Church of Christ (UCC) denomination.
Continue reading ‘Spring Glen Marks 25 "Open & Affirming" Years’