Month: May 2021
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Environmental News Sources
Read More: Environmental News SourcesI don’t know where you get your news about climate change and environmental issues. I subscribe to quite a few newsletters. Sometimes I find something I want to highlight in this article, but some of them, though they inform me about what’s going on, don’t usually inspire me to share. However, I realize that my…
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A Covenant for the Pandemic’s Last Days
Read More: A Covenant for the Pandemic’s Last DaysOn Wednesday, May 19th the Diocese of Southern Ohio issued new Covid guidelines. Vaccinated people are now permitted to go unmasked in church, and we are allowed to sing again! This is great news. But since we still have some unvaccinated people, mostly children, in our parish, we’ve decided to put our masks back on…
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St. Stephen’s Weekend at Procter Summer Camp
Read More: St. Stephen’s Weekend at Procter Summer CampProcter Summer Camp is super excited to announce that this summer we will be offering 6 Family camp sessions, a Senior High session, 9 weeks of Day camp for the youth of Madison County, and a session of Silver Camp for adults 50 years old or older. As some of you may know, safety is…
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Studying the Gospel of John Together
Read More: Studying the Gospel of John TogetherJohn’s Gospel is the strangest, wordiest, and often the most bewildering of the Gospels. It contains many of the most important stories of Jesus’s life, yet there are times when a reader might pause and wonder what John is saying, and why he’s saying it in such a tangled and abstruse way. Beginning on Thursday,…
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Nehemiah Action Gave us a Chance to Socialize for Justice
Read More: Nehemiah Action Gave us a Chance to Socialize for JusticeOn Tuesday, more than forty parishioners and community members gathered in Hobson Hall to participate in BREAD’s Nehemiah Action. The Nehemiah Action took place outside of a church in North Columbus, but since it was live-streamed, we decided to have a watch party. Some amazing volunteers made picnic boxes so that we could safely eat…
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Good Sources for Creation Care Shopping
Read More: Good Sources for Creation Care ShoppingI don’t imagine myself as an “Influencer,” and no one is going to pay me for mentioning products. I don’t have 15 million followers. But, in my own struggles to live more healthily, sustainably and largely without plastic over the past few years I have found some useful sources to share. Remember that when I…
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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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