Month: August 2024
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New Art in the Sanctuary: The Way the Images Arranged Themselves, Photos by John Holliger
Read More: New Art in the Sanctuary: The Way the Images Arranged Themselves, Photos by John HolligerIn this posthumous show of John’s work, we highlight his deep attention to detail and the way he used his lens and his editing process to reveal the abstract within nature. John was an Episcopal priest, a contemplative Christian, and a spiritual director, and these parts of his character were always present in his artistic…
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Hope-Mongering
Read More: Hope-Mongeringby Di McCullough and Karl Stevens You may have noticed a certain playfulness slipping into the Prayers of the People in recent weeks. At the point in the prayers when we ask God to “give us all a reverence for the earth as your own creation” people have begun listing animals and trees and other…
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The Saint Stephen’s “Month of Bread” playlist!
Read More: The Saint Stephen’s “Month of Bread” playlist!Throughout August, the Revised Common Lectionary features readings from the Gospel of John in which Jesus speaks of himself as the Bread of Life. So we are creating a parish “Month of Bread” playlist on Spotify. Send song suggestions to Karl. You can listen to the playlist in the player below, or by following this…
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Workshop on Civil Discourse
Read More: Workshop on Civil DiscourseOn Tuesday, October 8 from 6 to 8 p.m., Alan Yarborough, church relations officer in the Episcopal Church’s Office of Government Relations, will lead our diocese in a Zoom training titled “Make Me an Instrument of Peace: Building Capacity for Engaging on Tough Topics.” The session will be based on the civil discourse curriculum developed by the…
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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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