By Lynne Glickert, Music Director In October, I had the pleasure of attending the Convergence Music Project conference for musicians, pastors, worship leaders and anyone interested in justice-building, inclusive and progressive music and worship. It was filled with powerful talks, inspiring music, provocative worship and community-building. I learned more about the role music plays […]
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Dear People of St. Francis’, I recently read: faith is a solitary journey that we cannot do alone. This encapsulates the connection between our individual faith-life and our worship together. We come together on Sundays to give praise and be fed spiritually through Word, song and prayer; we then take those things into the world and
By parishioner Skip Moreland This reflection was an outgrowth from the Who Is Our Neighbor: Refugee Edition Forum session called “Afghanistan and Faith” by parishioner Nathan Whaley. Click here to watch that Forum session. A few weeks ago, Laurie+ and I were talking about military service, war, and Jesus Christ. Little did we know how
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Dear precious friends, (and I do consider you very special friends)This thank you is for all of you who have in one way or another participated in the ministry of Trinity Food Ministry, yet it is for the whole of the parish. Nothing we do is done in a bubble. It takes all of us. Our
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by Donna Bernert, Coordinator of Service and Justice Bishop Deon has given the people of St. Francis’ a new directive to go out into our community to know and to serve our neighbors. You may know that St. Francis’ has been going to the Trinity Episcopal Church, located at Central West End for many years
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Dear People of St. Francis’, It is often said that “evangelism” is a dirty word in the Episcopal Church. My reply to that would be, “not at St. Francis’ Episcopal Church in Eureka, MO!” Evangelism is telling the story of faith in our life to those with whom we come in contact. St. Francis’ parishioners time
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Dear People of St. Francis’, We are accustomed to hearing a State of the Union Address from our President each winter. Many of us are familiar with our denominational Annual Meeting when we get reports on the life and health of our congregation. As we launch our program year this Sunday, our Forum at 9:15am
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Dear People of St. Francis’, All through August we depart from Mark’s gospel in the Lectionary and explore the analogy of Bread and Body with John the Evangelist. The more Jesus asserts that he is the Bread of Life, come down from Heaven, the more urgent the opposition to this teaching becomes. Even his disciples
Dear People of St. Francis’ The Greek philosopher Aristotle taught that happiness consists of contemplation and virtuous acts. If this is true, the bakers of our Eucharistic bread must be very happy people! These parishioners are baking our bread during the five week Bread of Life Discourse from the Gospel of John, chapter 6. You can
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Dear People of St. Francis’ This week a parishioner sent me a letter in which he said: I have been reading Karen Armstrong’s The Lost Art of Scripture. I’m finding the chapter on Embodiment very interesting. It gives a comparison of the interpretation of scripture in the Eastern and Western Churches. According to Armstrong, Augustine
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