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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’
by | May 2, 2022 9:01 am | Comments (1)
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Knights of Columbus units at Sunday's celebration.
When the apostles sent out their nets at the shore of Lake Tiberias, according to the Book of John -– ultimately a metaphor to become “fishers of men” –- there were no real ichthyological prey to be caught. When they came to believe and to give witness, then they filled their nets. And, thanks to God, there was a big catch.
That was the apt homily for how to keep rebuilding the Catholic community in Westville and the heart of the message of Archbishop Leonard Blair as he celebrated mass in front of 200 of the faithful on the occasion of Westville’s St. Aedan’s and St. Brendan Parish’s main building’s 100th anniversary.
by | Apr 25, 2022 10:18 am | Comments (5)
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Featured speaker Lazowski (above) addressed Holocaust remembrance crowd (below) at the Towers.
“What happened to me,” Philip Lazowski, one of the last remaining survivors who can still tell the tale, “is a lesson on what could still happen.”
by | Apr 18, 2022 9:02 am | Comments (4)
Seven-year-old Tetty with winnings.
Easter came early to “The Shack” Community Center, as 100 neighbors from West Hills and beyond came together Saturday for a cookout.
Continue reading ‘The Shack Brings West Hills Together For Easter’
by | Apr 10, 2022 9:23 pm | Comments (14)
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Yevgeny and Kristyna with baby Leonell Sunday at St. Michael's Church.
Yevgeny and Kristyna Biziaieva and their three children observed Palm Sunday on George Street, the first Ukrainian refugee family to be welcomed in New Haven since the war broke out.
by | Apr 5, 2022 3:50 pm | Comments (2)
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Imam Omer Bajwa at WNHH FM.
Imam Omer Bajwa awoke before 5 a.m. Tuesday so he could drink lots of water before the sun rose. He plans to drink a lot more water after 7:30 p.m.
In between, Bajwa won’t eat or drink anything. Meanwhile, his soul will be nourished.
by | Mar 27, 2022 5:02 pm | Comments (1)
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Rabbi Ravid Tilles, at right, presents prayer shawl to BEKI Rabbi Eric Woodward at Sunday's ceremony.
As we emerge –- we dearly hope -– from a mask-filled pandemic, one of the most important values to which we aspire is seeing and being seen, in the fullest spiritual sense.
by | Mar 25, 2022 12:52 pm | Comments (0)
Pauli Murray.
In 1961 Pauli Murray found joy being in New Haven, to have endless days for study and discernment and to have that culminate, five years later, in her becoming the first African-American student to earn a doctorate from the Yale Law School.
It was the opposite of joyful -– and she never forgot it -– when a landlord on Howe Street refused to rent to her because of her race.
