Month: July 2022
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There Is Some Good News about Our Plastic Crisis
Read More: There Is Some Good News about Our Plastic CrisisThis is the last week of Plastic Free July. I hope you have taken a few more steps this past month to reduce the amount of single use plastic in your life. Your effort is part of the good news about the plastic crisis. Happily, it has gotten beyond individual efforts. Companies are listening and…
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A Comprehensive Look at Controlling Our Use of Plastic
Read More: A Comprehensive Look at Controlling Our Use of PlasticSingle-use plastic is a big problem, damaging the environment, killing marine life, breaking down into micro-pellets that are even found in the human blood stream. But our individual efforts to wean ourselves from plastic is insufficient unless we attack the problem systemically. Christy Walters owns one of our local eco-friendly stores, Reuse Revolution, which sells…
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How to Reduce Your Single-Use Plastic
Read More: How to Reduce Your Single-Use PlasticThe first thing to do is know what you can recycle and what you can’t. In Central Ohio that is determined by SWACO, the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio. On the SWACO website you can find a complete list of what you can recycle in Franklin County as well as a search tool that…
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What’s So Bad about Plastic?
Read More: What’s So Bad about Plastic?Why participate in Plastic Free July? Because the world is overwhelmed with single-use plastic. It is not only a pollutant, but it is on track to damage the health of living creatures all over the planet.40% of all plastic is single-use.Every year, about 8 million tons of plastic ends up in the oceansIt can take…
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Tracy Qian’s Organ Arrangement of ‘Blossoms on a Moonlit River in Spring”
Read More: Tracy Qian’s Organ Arrangement of ‘Blossoms on a Moonlit River in Spring”Tracy Qian, who often practices on our organ, created a beautiful arrangement of traditional Chinese music. You can view it here or on YouTube.
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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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