MBS Newsletter
The Right Reverend M. Thomas Shaw, SSJE., was consecrated as Bishop of The Diocese of Massachusetts in 1994. He holds a Master of Divinity degree from General Theological Seminary in New York and a Master of Arts degree in theology from Catholic University of America.
Bishop Shaw is a founding member and the chair of the board of the Epiphany Middle School, a tuition-free, inner-city Boston school, and has initiated the Youth Leadership Academy in the Diocese of Massachusetts, a Christian leadership training program for high-school-aged Episcopalians. The completion of the diocese's new Barbara C. Harris Camp and Conference Center in Greenfield, New Hampshire is the result of his vision and leadership toward building strong lay and ordained leadership, addressing issues that confront this urban diocese and ministering to children and young people to bring about their full inclusion in the life of the Church.
Bishop Shaw recently returned from a three month sabbatical during which he traveled in Kenya, Tanzania, and the Holy Land. A prolific writer, he has just completed a book, Conversations with Scripture and with Each Other, that focuses on the use of scripture in building up congregational life.