Month: January 2022
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Becoming “Prayer Warriors” for God’s Creation
Read More: Becoming “Prayer Warriors” for God’s CreationHere’s where we left off last week:“Not only is the myth of consumerism not true, it is destroying our earthly home. In attempting to satisfy our consumer culture, the earth is being over-exploited and abused. It reacts to this attack by undergoing fundamental ecological change, the change we have labeled “global heating.” This is why…
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Kenosis – The Spiritual Heart of Creation Care
Read More: Kenosis – The Spiritual Heart of Creation Care“Kenosis” is one of those first century Greek words we use in our Christian spiritual life and worship, like “epiphany” and “eucharist.” Kenosis means “self-emptying” as praised in the ancient hymn Paul quotes in Philippians 2:Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of…
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Welcoming Brice Patterson as Our New Deacon
Read More: Welcoming Brice Patterson as Our New DeaconSaint Stephen’s is thrilled to welcome Brice Patterson as our new deacon! Brice recently graduated from the School for Diaconal Formation, and will be ordained on March 12th at Trinity on Capitol Square here in Columbus (so we can all go!). Brice is a talented preacher and leader, with a passion for social justice, as…
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Needed for Creation Care: A Great Religious Awakening
Read More: Needed for Creation Care: A Great Religious AwakeningHow do we create the kind of changes that will keep our world’s climate at a tolerable level? Sallie McFague argues that it requires a world-wide cultural conversion, from consumerism to sustainability. This kind of massive conversion, of billions of people, would seem impossible to achieve. But religions know how to do this, and religions…
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The Baptism of Christ
Read More: The Baptism of ChristMany paintings of Jesus’s baptism use the water in a decorative way, interlacing it with his body. I love this, and wanted to imitate it, because it shows how elemental the baptism is, springing from the first moments of creation and claiming Christ’s place in the natural world.
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Three Environmental Resolutions You Can Make for 2022
Read More: Three Environmental Resolutions You Can Make for 2022Happy New Year! I’m a committed environmentalist. But during the last few weeks I’ve often just let my standards lapse. Maybe that’s happened to you, too. Now, with the holiday distractions behind us, let’s get back to saving the world!The best thing to do right now is to focus on basics. According to a recent…
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Into Light All Things Must Fall: An Exhibit for Epiphany
Read More: Into Light All Things Must Fall: An Exhibit for EpiphanyPaintings by Stuart D. Hobbs. This exhibition will be available to view in St. Stephen’s sanctuary during the Season After Epiphany, January 6 – March 1. Artist’s Introduction Sunlight shines on the snow and the light dances and sparkles white and blue and many more colors. And we are moved by what we see. As…
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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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