Background Checks for Gun Safety Now! Interfaith Action and Vigil on Sunday
I write with a heavy heart and deep sadness as we consider the news from Texas. Yesterday an 18 year old gunman killed nineteen children and two teachers at Robb…
Columbus Pride on June 18
This June, St. Stephen's will join Episcopal parishes from across Central Ohio to take part in the 2022 Stonewall Columbus Pride Parade and Festival. All are invited to participate by…
A Necessary Corrective
I've been writing about worship as a way of entering an alternate reality, which Christians might call the Courts of Heaven, The Heavenly City, The Heavenly Banquet, The Resurrection Life,…
Entering the Courts of Heaven, Part Three
This is part three of a series that explores the way in which we covenant with God through worship. Goodman discerns a basic pattern in all cultures that create ritual…
Entering the Courts of Heaven, Part Two
This post is the second in a series that explores how we covenant with God through worship. Everybody worships, and worship involves attention, awareness and discipline. But it also involves…
Entering the Courts of Heaven, Part One
This post is the first in a series on covenanting with God through worship. Part of covenanting with anyone is spending time with them. Neglect will end any relationship we…
Street Festival Shines Spotlight on Artwork by Migrants
Asylum Seekers Create Devotional, Personal Embroideries A one-day street festival featuring food, music and children’s activities will highlight a folk-art exhibition of colorful embroidery works created by Mexicans and Central…
The One Who Helps Us to Mature
This is a continuation of the discussion started in the post titled The One Who Walks in the Garden. There are, of course, other ways to look at the second…
Worship on Sunday, May 29th
We are back to worshipping in person as well as online. Diocesan and municipal guidelines have allowed us to return to many pre-pandemic practices. We can worship and sing without…
The One Who Walks in the Garden
Once human beings became conscious of the world, we did very little for 180,000 years. We were hunter-gatherers who worked for about three hours a week and used only about…