Month: April 2022

Asylum Seekers Create Devotional, Personal Embroideries A one-day street festival featuring food, music and children’s activities will highlight a folk-art exhibition of colorful embroidery works created by Mexicans and Central Americans at the U.S. border seeking asylum  Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church, 2151 Dorset Rd., will hold the outdoor festival from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday,…

This is a continuation of the discussion started in the post titled The One Who Walks in the Garden. There are, of course, other ways to look at the second and third chapters of Genesis. The “sin and fall” interpretation is about two thousand years old. Its interpretation of the Genesis story goes like this.…

Once human beings became conscious of the world, we did very little for 180,000 years. We were hunter-gatherers who worked for about three hours a week and used only about a tenth of the food resources that were available to us. What did we do with the rest of our time? Sang, perhaps. Made cave…

We are happy to know that many people new to worship in the Episcopal Church come to St. Stephen’s, and we welcome you! This post is intended to help you learn about why we do what we do when we gather together for prayer and praise. Easter Season The Easter Season lasts for fifty days,…

I write this on Good Friday. Throughout the night, different people have come and prayed in the Garden of Repose that we set-up in the sanctuary. Framed by trees and plants, flickering with candle light, the reserved sacrament of bread and wine formed the focal point of the garden. Years ago I identified five questions…

Jesus tells us to bear each other’s burdens, and it seems to me that this burden-bearing is part of the covenant we make with our neighbors. But I would like to expand it as well, and say that we are also covenanted to carry each other’s joy. There are moments that have a certain magic,…

by Nicole Havelka  [Editor’s Note: This post was written by Nicole Havelka for her blog. Nicole is a member of the Interfaith Council at OSU and a brilliant spiritual leader who offers many opportunities for growth and renewal. We repost what she’s written with her permission.) Last week I attended a community conversation at St. Stephen’s Episcopal…

a homily preached by The Rev. Patricia Rose on April 3rd. About 15 years ago, I was at a long retreat in the Blue Ridge Mountains in  Virginia.   It was a part of a series of 4 retreats a year for 5 years with the same group of people.  In our retreats with very…