Month: December 2023
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What to Get for the Person Who Has Everything
Read More: What to Get for the Person Who Has EverythingOn your Christmas gift list do you have someone who always says, “I have everything I need?” Or someone who is striving to live simply and is downsizing? How do you express your love to such friends and relations with a gift if they don’t want a present? Donate to a good cause in their…
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Faith Meets COP28
Read More: Faith Meets COP28The 28th annual meeting of COP is underway in Dubai these two weeks. COP is short for “Conference of the Parties,” meaning those countries who joined—are “party to,” in legal terms—the international treaty called the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change ( UNFCCC ). A central purpose of each COP since 2015 has been to…
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Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Services
Read More: Christmas Eve and Christmas Day ServicesChristmas Eve falls on the fourth Sunday of Advent this year. Because of this, our schedule on Sunday, December 24th will be significantly different. Here’s the full schedule: Sunday, December 24 – 4th Sunday of Advent & Christmas Eve Monday, December 25 – Christmas Day We will stream both the pageant and the Christmas Eve…
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Dreaming of a Green Christmas
Read More: Dreaming of a Green ChristmasHere are some excellent ideas for creation care during the holidays. From Earth 911, four suggestions for making Christmas gift buying and wrapping environmentally sound From Crys, tips for greening your gift giving, greening your decorating, greening your celebrations and greening your putting away And a wonderful place to help the world’s children when you…
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LOVEBoldly Action Alert
Read More: LOVEBoldly Action AlertHouse Bill 68, an amended bill that would ban gender-affirming care for minors AND ban transgender athletes in school sports for both K-12 and higher education, was passed by the House in June. It is now moving through the Senate. As an open and affirming parish, St. Stephen’s opposes this bill. We are part of the…
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Advent Art Show in the Sanctuary
Read More: Advent Art Show in the SanctuaryStuart Hobbs, one of our curators here at St. Stephen’s, asked me if I would show some of my art during the Advent season, so I find myself writing my own artist statement when I usually just post the statements of others. The paintings on display were created over a period of ten years, and…
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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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