Archive for 2020
An interview with Gail Bindley-Taylor | June 10, 2020
Gail is a long-time member of St. Paul’s and of the Race and Social Justice Coalition. This week she spoke with Jake Street about her experiences, her reactions to the past several weeks, and her message to allies, advocates, and those uncertain how they can help. How did you come to join the Race and […]
Continue ReadingThoughts on reopening from Steve McCay
As with many others, I experience Covid-19 fatigue in varying degrees and my ability to cope is really tested at times. This crisis has shown itself to be particularly challenging, most likely because I was unable to avoid infection and sickness. Historically my default coping method has been to keep busy and remain hopeful, and […]
Continue Reading“We Must Start” by Nikkya Hargrove | June 3, 2020
With tensions high, old wounds reopened and many questions without answers, we are a community struggling to make sense of our America. The black community is struggling in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and I, for one, find myself lost, searching deep within myself to navigate my own feelings of anger and fear. Knowing […]
Continue ReadingMay 30, 2020: The Language of the Unheard
Dear People of St. Paul’s, I write to you on the eve of Pentecost, the day we remember and celebrate the release of spiritual power into the lives of those who followed Jesus. It was a moment of transformative awareness that all Jesus had been and done and said and promised was IN THEM as […]
Continue Reading“The Great Rummage Sale” by Mother Louise Kalemkerian | May 27, 2020
Phyllis Tickle, author and academic, in her 2008 book The Great Emergence: How Christianity Is Changing and Why, wrote that every 500 years the Church goes through a “rummage sale” and cleans out the old forms of spirituality, replacing them with new ones. She cites Constantine in the late 4th century; the Great Schism of […]
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