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/For practiced bakers, making bread can be a very meditative and spiritual ritual
Read MoreFor practiced bakers, making bread can be a very meditative and spiritual ritual
Read MoreWhat does it mean to lean into the unprovable story of the resurrection and Jesus and faith?
Read MoreI hope you will take the trip through all the Holy Week services with St. James this year, in person or online.
Read MoreLiturgical reforms have left us with kind of a split personality on Palm Sunday.
Read MoreI grew up in a place full of rivers, lakes and green trees, so I had not been able to fully imagine this famous story in Ezekiel
Read MoreIt’s tempting to wonder what was wrong with those people. I mean - they used to be slaves in Egypt and harshly oppressed.
Read MoreAs the story of the Tower of Babbel shows us, God has always prefered diversity to conformity.
Read MoreTemptation is always all around us - temptation to do things that feel good in the moment but are not necessarily good for us in the long run - or good for the rest of the world, either.
Read MoreYou will do well to be attentive to this - as a lamp shining in a dark place.
Read MorePsalm 119 is so long that even in monasteries they split this psalm up into sections instead of trying to pray it all at once.
Read MoreAll our members are part of this body - and you are needed in the body at Annual Meeting.
Read MoreMany of our unhoused neighbors are not only economically poor, but they have never had the kinds of riches some of us have taken for granted
Read MoreWhen I was first ordained back in 1996, whenever I wore my clerical collar into the grocery store, I made it into kind of a sociology experiment.
Read MoreIf you were one of John’s disciples, and heard him repeatedly point out certain man and call him the Lamb of God, what would that name begin to conjure up in you?
Read MoreThese readings remind me that whenever we think we’re in charge, we’d better think again.
Read MoreThis week has not gone at all like I expected. I suppose a priest getting sick with covid would be worst during Holy Week, but Christmas is a close second.
Read MoreJust like Mary, we are called to bear Christ into the world through our own words and actions. Just like Joseph, we are called to say yes, even when the future is unclear.
Read MoreThe third Sunday of Advent is the one on which we’ll light the pink candle in the advent wreath. What’s that all about?
Read MoreIf you have a Norway maple tree in your year, you know about tree shoots.
Read MoreWeekly at 9:30 at St. James.
We hope you can join us for Sunday worship
The service is also streamed on our Facebook page and our website
Pocket of Peace ( a service of peaceful prayer) at 12 noon online
Tues-Fri: 10-2
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