Weekly Reflections
“Toppling Bookshelves” by James McNutt | July 8, 2020
With so many of my routines tossed out the window, I’ve wanted the satisfaction of what I saw as my respectably busy calendar back. And though I tried to fill my days by throwing myself into work and registering for every Zoom event that came my way, something was predictably still missing. While I couldn’t […]
Continue Reading“The Flags We Wave” by Fr. Daniel Simons | June 24, 2020
Flags have been around for much of human history. They have signaled peace, war, boundaries, identity, turf, allegiance, and aspiration. They are a shorthand by which we identify those like us and those unlike us. While flags signify much, they also invite a deeper conversation about what they are for. I understand their important power […]
Continue ReadingAn 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 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 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 […]
Continue Reading“Hitting the Wall” by Father Daniel Simons | May 20, 2020
This past week I noticed that in many of my conversations around the parish, and in the wider community, people were describing a new level of fatigue, or crankiness, or anxiety, or frustration. As I listened, I looked inward and found the same within myself. It reminded me of what endurance sports language calls “hitting […]
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