Month: March 2026
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Laments & Praise
Read More: Laments & PraiseLast Sunday, we finished our five-part series on Lament by considering praise. It is rather beautiful that laments, which are so honest and raw about negative emotions, also have plenty of room for thanksgiving and expressions of joy. The ancient Israelites seemed to know that emotive prayer couldn’t be completely honest if it only dwelled…
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Laments & Petition
Read More: Laments & PetitionArtwork: Detail from Kathe Kollwitz, The Living to the Dead. In Memory of January 15, 1919. (Mourning the death of Karl Liebknecht), 1920. Woodcut. This is Part Three of a Five Part Series. A link to the next post is at the bottom of this page. Now we come to what is probably the most…
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Laments & Expressions of Confidence
Read More: Laments & Expressions of ConfidenceThis is Part Three of a Five Part Series. A link to the next post is at the bottom of this page. Continuing our project of writing laments using the ancient literary forms found in the Hebrew Scriptures, we turn to the naming of covenant. It is probably good to reiterate that the form of…
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Holy Week at St. Stephen’s
Read More: Holy Week at St. Stephen’sHoly Week (the week between Palm Sunday and Easter) is a commemoration of Jesus’s journey to Jerusalem and death on a cross. It is marked by three major feast days, known as the Triduum. These are the most beautiful, profound, and tragic days of the Christian year. Service times and descriptions of the days are…
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Laments & Honest Complaint
Read More: Laments & Honest ComplaintThis is Part Two of a Five Part Series. A link to the next post is at the bottom of this page. On Sunday, we continued to write laments in the style of the ancient Israelites. As I said in the last post, the genre of Biblical lament has five basic parts: invocation; honest complaint;…
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Young Adult Ministries During Lent
Read More: Young Adult Ministries During LentUpcoming Events March 03/15: Lunch n’ Learn, 12:00pm 03/20: YAMS Fish Fry, 5-7:30pm 03/28: Arabic Calligraphy Workshop, 2-4:00pm April 04/03: Good Friday Breaking of the Fast, 9:00pm 04/19: Lunch n’ Learn, 12:00pm 04/23: Pollinator Garden Design Meeting, 5-7:00pm YAMS Lenten Fish Fry Join us on Friday, March 2oth for a Lenten tradition! Like our normal monthly fellowship dinners, we’ll gather at…
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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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