by superadmin | Feb 24, 2016 | Front Page
To this day, Janine Ungvarsky gets anxious when she hears heavy rainfall. She was just a young girl in 1972 when Hurricane Agnes tore through eastern Pennsylvania and the raging Susquehanna River devastated the Wyoming Valley. It brought three-and-a-half feet of water...
by superadmin | Jan 28, 2016 | Front Page, Pilgrimage
Jeff Kemmerer wants you to know that he’s no Biblical scholar, and when it comes to the scriptures, he probably has many more questions than answers. “Actually, I am more comfortable discussing chemistry or nuclear physics than I am the Scriptures,” he says when asked...
by superadmin | Jan 6, 2016 | Front Page, Pilgrimage
The Rev. Dr. Han van den Blink doesn’t use social media. He’s never blogged before, and you certainly won’t find him on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr or any other networking sites. So it’s a real gift to the Diocese of Bethlehem that you can read his...
by superadmin | Jan 6, 2016 | Front Page, Pilgrimage
If you followed Anna Thomas’s pilgrimage blog during the Christmas season, you know how active she is in the Diocese of Bethlehem and how much the Episcopal Church means to her. “I’m an Episcopalian largely because of how much I love liturgy,” says Thomas, who is a...
by superadmin | Nov 19, 2015 | Front Page, Governance
Jane Williams, the recently appointed chair of the diocese’s Commission on Ministry, has a lot of experience listening for the spirit. Ordained in 1982 as a pastor in the United Methodist Church, Williams worked as a pastoral counselor and therapist at several local...
by superadmin | Nov 4, 2015 | Front Page, Pilgrimage
What the Rev. David Green, rector of St. Gabriel’s, Douglassville, finds exciting about the upcoming diocesan pilgrimage is that it might be messy. “I’m really excited that this is not a top-down kind of a thing,” says Green, of the pilgrimage that was announced by...
