Month: March 2022
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Earth Month Is Here!
Read More: Earth Month Is Here!Huh. So what? What difference does it make? When governments and big corporations drag their feet about the climate crisis people can get cynical about ground-roots movements . Yet some of the most significant social changes have come from the ground up, like the Suffragist Movement, like the Civil Rights Movement, like many smaller movements…
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Covenant in Jephthah’s Story: Judges 10:6 – 12:7
Read More: Covenant in Jephthah’s Story: Judges 10:6 – 12:7Artwork: Pat Berger, Jephthah’s Daughter, 1991, oil & oil sticks on canvas. As I look through the lens of covenant to view my life and my faith, a question arises. What human propensities cause covenants to go awry? If, as Brueggemann says, “covenanting (and spirituality) consists in learning the skills and sensitivities that include both…
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Holy Week Schedule, Including Streaming Information
Read More: Holy Week Schedule, Including Streaming InformationHoly Week falls between Palm Sunday and Easter. It contains the Triduum, the great three days in which the story of Jesus’s betrayal and death is told. It culminates on Easter, the celebration of Jesus’s resurrection. Here is the schedule for Holy Week: Maundy Thursday (April 14th) Eucharist and Stripping of the Altar7:00 pm in…
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Covenantal Spirituality
Read More: Covenantal SpiritualityImage: KPB Stevens, Moses & The Burning Bush, linocut on paper, 2022. A few months ago I reread Walter Brueggemann’s The Covenanted Self, and realized that covenant is a profound metaphor for the spiritual life. Metaphors for that life abound, and some of them have been incredibly influential in my life. I spent a couple…
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It’s Time to Get Ready for Earth Month!
Read More: It’s Time to Get Ready for Earth Month!Believe it or not, Earth Month (April) is just seven days away. All during the month, and not just on Earth Day, volunteers will be working on environmental projects. A national Earth Month Ecochallenge is recruiting volunteers in all sorts of categories, from strenuous to light. Local teams are getting organized to compete in hours…
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A Lenten Fast from Plastic 2: Going Plastic Free
Read More: A Lenten Fast from Plastic 2: Going Plastic FreeSince 1950, 8.3 billion metric tons of plastic have been produced, and 4 billion of that was in just the last 15 years. Only about 9 percent of all plastic ever produced has been recycled and about 12 percent has been incinerated. 79 percent has ended up in landfills, lakes, streams and the ocean. Today,…
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BREAD Columbus Update
Read More: BREAD Columbus UpdateB.R.E.A.D. Environmental Justice Research Committee Work Update In preparation for our attendance at the Nehemiah Action on Tuesday May 10, the Environmental Justice Committee has focused and defined a specific environmental problem to address from the stories raised in our congregational listening sessions. The Committee is working to find practical, implementable, enforceable, ways to solve…
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Freedom a la Cart Sunday March 27th
Read More: Freedom a la Cart Sunday March 27thFreedom a la Cart is a nonprofit social enterprise that empowers survivors of sex trafficking and exploitation to build lives of freedom and self-sufficiency. Through a social enterprise café + bakery, Freedom employs survivors as they prepare to live self-sufficiently in the community. On Sunday March 27th, Bekah Moran, Freedom’s Engagement Manager will preach the sermon,…
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A Lenten Fast from Plastic 1: Recycling
Read More: A Lenten Fast from Plastic 1: RecyclingProbably the most important place to start is by rejecting plastic. While plastic has legitimate medical and technical uses, its consumer use has become so overwhelming that it is endangering the ecosystem and probably the health of animals and humans. So dangerous has consumer plastic become that 173 nations agreed to develop a legally binding…
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New Covid Guidelines
Read More: New Covid GuidelinesLate last week the Covid Medical Taskforce of the Diocese of Southern Ohio released new guidelines. On Monday, Columbus City Council lifted the mask mandate. On Tuesday, OSU announced that the university would lift it’s mask mandate on Friday. All of this means that this Sunday, March 13th, will mark a return to many pre-pandemic…
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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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