Month: February 2021
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Interfaith Council to Host Spring Semester Progressive Dinner
Read More: Interfaith Council to Host Spring Semester Progressive DinnerRegister at bit.ly/osu-longer-table
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The New “Big Lie”
Read More: The New “Big Lie”Our heart and help goes out to the Texans who had to suffer through the winter disaster. As for some of their politicians, it’s a different matter. After initially admitting that the disaster was due to poor planning and preparation, Governor Abbott and others shifted to blaming renewable energy and the Green New Deal. Renewables,…
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Regathering as the Pandemic Slows and Approaches an End
Read More: Regathering as the Pandemic Slows and Approaches an EndOn February 12th the Diocese of Southern Ohio issued new guidelines for worship during the Covid-19 pandemic. These guidelines made it clear that we could reopen, in a very limited way. Here at St. Stephen’s we’re going to take this slowly and go carefully. We have a series of concerns that we want to address…
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Living Well, Dying Well: Religion, Health, and Healing
Read More: Living Well, Dying Well: Religion, Health, and HealingOur friends as OSU sent us this invitation to a really interesting looking symposium. Use this link to register: religion.osu.edu/events/edwards-moultrie
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Red Cross Blood Drive Wednesay Feburary 24, 2021 9:00am – 3:00pm Hobson Hall
Read More: Red Cross Blood Drive Wednesay Feburary 24, 2021 9:00am – 3:00pm Hobson Hall -
A Cross Project for Lent
Read More: A Cross Project for LentOne of our wonderful parishioners, Claire, suggests that we spend Lent making and decorating crosses, which we can then use as part of our Good Friday liturgy. Her idea is simple. Pick any of the types of cross shown on the graphic below, and make one out of whatever medium you’d like. If you’re a…
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This Week’s Painting
Read More: This Week’s PaintingThis painting is a gloss, of sorts, on Stanley Spencer’s Jesus in the Wilderness series, which I’ll be preaching on this Sunday. Spencer was a very complicated person, deeply spiritual, sometimes morally cruel, willfully innocent in ways and deeply foolish in others. Not that different from most of us, in other words. But his understanding…
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Interfaith Memorial for Those Lost to Police Brutality
Read More: Interfaith Memorial for Those Lost to Police BrutalityThe Ohio State University is holding a memorial for those lost to police brutality. The Interfaith Council, which St. Stephen’s is a proud member of, has been deeply involved in this effort. February 22-February 25 At the Student Life Multicultural Center Memorial to Victims of Police Violence in Ohio From 2013 to 2021 (so far…)Instructions: Get…
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Story Sharing Circles
Read More: Story Sharing CirclesOur diocese—in our commitment to Becoming Beloved Community—is turning to StorySharing this year as a sacred practice that cultivates right relationship with ourselves, our neighbors, and God. StorySharing is different from storytelling in that it is relational , a mutual practice of listening, sharing, and witnessing. StorySharing invites a listening each other into wholeness: by listening…
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Lenten Film Club
Read More: Lenten Film ClubLenten Film Club The Rev. Jed Dearing has created an opportunity to engage in a different type of Lenten practice, The 2021 Lenten Film Club: Films in the Wilderness. Karl will join him in leading an Adult Formation series focused on six films every Thursday night in Lent.Jed has created a unique devotional guide that we’ll be…
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Moses in the Sapphire Cloud
Apophatic and Cataphatic Prayer and the Sinai Theophany He was on the mountain for forty days, and what were those days like? Alone, the sky dense around him, the earth occasionally rumbling, and when he saw a glimpse of the divine, it was as if he was looking through stained glass, stained a deep sapphire.…
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The Mixture of the Multitude: Liberation Readings of Scripture
We gathered on Wednesday evenings throughout July and August, sitting around the ubiquitous plastic folding tables that are known to every church. Sunlight slanted in through the wall of glass windows, and the smells of the parish kitchen— old coffee, musty sponges, cleaning product— filled the room. We were there to study Queer Theology, a…
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St. Francis Feast Day Pet Blessing on Sunday, October 4
Saint Francis’s Feast Day is on October 4th. We will hold our annual pet blessing in the midst of the service. Bring your pet or a photo of your pet to church! If you’re more of a plant person, bring a plant! St. Francis’s care for creation extends to all living things.
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