Christmas will be a littler brighter for 300 families thanks to the efforts of St. Peter’s Episcopal Church. A long line of people were waiting outside the church doors at 5 p.m. when the Christmas dinner supplies distribution began on Friday evening.

Dear sisters and brothers in Christ,   The chaos of Bethlehem during a census, when all who traced their heritage to the city of David returned to be counted, must have been overwhelming to residents and visitors alike. We can imagine how this might have been for Mary and Joseph, migrant parents, internalizing, as all parents do, the vulnerability of their newborn child. How, they might well have wondered, did they possibly count?

Two Episcopalians, a husband and wife from Ohio, are receiving national recognition for their outreach to a Haitian man who recently was released from federal detention after spending more than two years behind bars waiting for a decision on his request for asylum.

“Love came down at Christmas, because God so loved the world, that he gave,” Episcopal Church Presiding Bishop and Primate Michael Curry said in his Christmas Message 2018.

As a result of this resolution, from January 1, 2019 until December 31, 2021, those who wish to bring a case of sexual misconduct against a member of the clergy will be able to do so, regardless of how long ago the alleged misconduct occurred.