Month: May 2023
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June Book Club
Read More: June Book ClubPlease join us for the June book club meeting. It will be on Wednesday, June 14 starting at 6:30 PM at Julia and Wayne Sheppard’s home. We’ll start with a shared meal (please bring food and/or beverage to share). We will be discussing Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us About the Lost Art…
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University District Storm Drain Art Implementation
Read More: University District Storm Drain Art ImplementationThis Saturday, May 20th from 9am-4pm, the Friends of the Lower Olentangy Watershed with support from UDO and the UDSID will implement an environmental public art project. 10 artists will paint sidewalks adjacent to the storm drain on the east side of High from North Oakland down to 11th Avenue. This is part of the “Only Rain Down…
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Some Positive News About Plastic Pollution and More Useful Environmental Newsletters
Read More: Some Positive News About Plastic Pollution and More Useful Environmental NewslettersThe UN Environment Programme (Unep) has released a report saying that Global plastic pollution could be slashed by 80% by 2040. The Guardian reports that “The changes needed are major, but are also practical and affordable.… The first step is to eliminate unnecessary plastics, such as excessive packaging, the report said. Then next steps are…
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Want to Cut Down on Plastic at Home? Subscribe to These Excellent Newsletters:
Read More: Want to Cut Down on Plastic at Home? Subscribe to These Excellent Newsletters:EcoWatch EcoWatch started as an Ohio-based environmental newsletter and has expanded world-wide. Scroll down the webpage to find the subscription box. You will receive a daily summary of environmental news, followed by a final article aimed at helping you adopt successful environmental practices at home. Simply Living Speaking of local, Simply Living is central Ohio’s…
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Mignonne Whitlow to be Inducted into the Society of St. Simeon & St. Anna
Read More: Mignonne Whitlow to be Inducted into the Society of St. Simeon & St. AnnaThe Society of St. Simeon and St. Anna celebrates exemplary Christian ministry. The purpose of the society is to recognize, honor, and celebrate the wisdom, experience, maturity, and achievements of older persons in the Diocese of Southern Ohio. Inductees are selected due to their being living examples of Christian witness whose compassionate lives serve as…
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NSI Needs Volunteers
Read More: NSI Needs VolunteersDue to the end of Spring Semester at OSU, our longtime community partner, Neighborhood Services, Inc. (NSI) is low on volunteers for Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays from 9:30 am to 1:30pm. Volunteers are needed to help pre-pack boxes of food, stock shelves, receive deliveries, sort donations, greet neighbors, assist in signing neighbors in, direct traffic,…
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Procter Summer Camp 2023
Read More: Procter Summer Camp 2023Consider Procter Summer Camp this for your rising 3rd to 12th graders or go as a family to one of the many Family Camp sessions! For more infomation and dates, check out Procter’s website at the link below.
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Book Club News
Read More: Book Club NewsThe May book club meeting is on Wednesday, May 10 starting at 6:30 PM at Kaethe Sandman/Pete Anderson’s home (RSVP to Kaethe to attend). We’ll start with a shared meal (please bring food and/or beverage to share). We will be discussing Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. Think also about reading for June, when we’ll be discussing Hunt,…
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New Memorial Wall Created in Sanctuary
Read More: New Memorial Wall Created in SanctuaryThis week we installed the first thirteen plaques on our new Memorial Wall. These plaques are a way to honor faithful members of this parish who have died, and to remind us that they are still present to us as members of the body of Christ. Future names will be added at the request of…
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Plastic Pollution Is Even Worse Than We Thought
Read More: Plastic Pollution Is Even Worse Than We ThoughtIt’s too late, our bodies are already full of micro and nanoplastics. As Mark O’Connell writes in the New York Times: “There is plastic in our bodies; it’s in our lungs and in our bowels and in the blood that pulses through us. We can’t see it, and we can’t feel it, but it is…
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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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