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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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Centering Prayer at St. Stephen’s
Three Opportunities to Learn & Practice Centering Prayer There are 3 opportunities at St Stephen’s to learn and practice centering prayer: 1. Every Thursday at 12 noon we have an in-person centering prayer meeting that meets in the Sanctuary. After the centering portion, we have a Lectio Divina portion where we read an excerpt from…
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Art in the Sanctuary – Mike & Elly Kaizar’s Block Prints
We’re so excited to be featuring block prints by Mike and Elly Kaizar this month. Stop by the sanctuary and check them out! Artist Bio Mike Kaizar michaelkaizar@yahoo.com 614-747-3151 Michael Kaizar is a Columbus-based blockprint artist whose bold, hand-carved imagery blends craft with playful, mythic storytelling. He began printing during the early COVID-19 pandemic, growing…
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Take the Adult Formation Survey
Our new Adult Formation Working Group has created a survey so that you can help guide their planning. Please fill out here, or fill out a paper copy in church on Sunday.
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