The Feast
Telling the story of our diocese and the good, loving, liberating, life-giving work that God is doing among and through our diocese is important work that we all share.
The Feast family of communication touchstones are important ways to share our story.
- The Feast Online is the bi-weekly newsletter for our diocese. Our newsletter is an important resource to link you to all kinds of other resources in our diocese: news, training opportunities, events, job openings, and more!
- The Feast Bite-Sized is a single-page PDF that is sent on opposite weeks of The Feast Online that serves as a brief update in the form that can work as a bulletin insert or flyer.
Help Tell Our Story
Parish Events
As a diocese, much of our shared story is written by the events and gatherings that our 98 congregations and ministry centers organize and host each week. Our public diocesan calendar now has a category specifically for events at parishes or diocesan ministry partners.
By submitting your events for our calendar, you’re helping our neighbors and friends across the Mitten to see how God is working among us and inviting everyone – members of our diocese and friends in our communities – to join that good work. We also include a list of upcoming parish events in The Feast Online.
Being & Becoming
Being & Becoming submissions from parishes are brief updates – ideally a photo and caption – about what life is like in your context. Submissions will be compiled into a single blog post each week, shared on traditional social media accounts and in Circle, and used to populate the collage at the top of each issue of The Feast Online.
Examples of great topics include: a church picnic, an outreach event, a “God moment,” a highlight of a lay or clergy person who has received an award or recognition, or other moments of celebration and connection.
Blog Stories
For longer updates or reflections, we welcome guest submissions to our blog, Our Stories. An example of content that would work better as a blog post than, for example, a Being & Becoming update, would be a story about how an outreach ministry came to be that gives context to a special event related to that ministry. Such a submission could still include a photo & caption (in fact, we’d love for it to!), but gives more detail than a simple Being & Becoming post.
Other blog post types that would work well include theological reflections connected to recent events (especially events unique to your local context), stories about diocesan or parish history, etc. Please do not submit sermons, partisan materials, or AI-generated work.