E N D I N G S  A N D  B E G I N N I N G S

SING IT EPISCOPAL:
Our Church, Our Music, Our Voice

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Given the focus in our diocesan life on preparing for the election of a new bishop, we are offering a series of three courses on bishops in the Anglican tradition.  

The first course (October) will take the long view, starting with the English Reformation and continuing to the present.  The second course in the series (January) will narrow its focus to three bishops in the Episcopal Church.  The third will come closer and consider three recent Long Island bishops who illustrate different models of episcopacy.  

Our November series will consider the Dead Sea Scrolls an amalgam of ancient biblical and apocryphal texts discovered in the mid-twentieth century.  In December, as we begin a new church year in the season of Advent, we’ll open the Gospel of Matthew.

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We are halfway through our current Academic Year.  The first semester ends on January 31, and our second semester begins on Saturday. February 21.  Sorry, no real break between semesters! 

The School for Ministry Spring 2026 Catalog can be accessed from the front page of our website (www.mercerschool.org ).
Open the catalog by clicking on its cover picture, select your course(s), and press “REGISTER.”. Since there are three class periods at each of our once-a-month online plenary sessions, verify the times for the course(s) you have chosen so as not to “double book.”  To find the titles of books assigned for each course, follow the Book List tab on the “School for Ministry” dropdown.

Also, online Lunch & Learn continues into the new year with a variety of new offerings through June 2026. Current information about this program is elsewhere on this page.

Continue to monitor the website for further developments.  Change is in the air in the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island!

Self-Study Course in Episcopal Church Law
Polity and Canon Law Update
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As we revise the Episcopal Church Law course to incorporate changes in our polity and canon law made at the Episcopal Church’s General Conventions in 2022 and 2024, we offer video recordings of our October 2024  lunchtime sessions covering the most significant of these changes. 

To access the videos, follow this dropdown sequence:  EPISCOPAL CHURCH LAW COURSE => LUNCH AND LEARN CANON LAW.
 
No registration or password is required.

More information about our School for Ministry program, please click here and reach out to
​Director of Academic Programs - Canon Ted Gerbracht [email protected]. ​

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Mercer Library Hours

Tuesday and Wednesday 10am - 3pm
Saturday by Appt Only

Contact [email protected]

Spring 2026 Catalog
Now Open

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The Very Rev. Dr. Michael Sniffen, Ph.D.
Dean
[email protected]

Diane Muscarella
Director of Operations
[email protected]

Canon Ted Gerbracht, Ph.D.
​Director of Academic Programs
​School for Ministry
[email protected]

Laura Nelson, Ph.D.
Associate Director of Academic Programs
​lnelson@dioceseli.org

Jane Herbst
Librarian
[email protected]

Jack Adam
Office Administrator
[email protected]

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