Sunday Eucharist | 10:30 (Choral)
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Earlier this year we asked ourselves: What would we do if ICE showed up during Sunday worship? What is a safe and lawful response? How might the wrong response put us or our immigrant neighbors at even greater risk? Daunting…
I came to the church on Tuesday at 8:45 to lend some moral support to Adam as he was making the morning push to rouse our unhoused neighbors for the day. We all have witnessed how depressing this duty must…
During the Lenten season we focus especially on confession and repentance, including repentance for evil done in our name. In her book Life Abundant the ecological theologian Sallie McFague discusses who we imagine is responsible for evil, if God’s reality…
Suffrages A.4 V. Lord, keep this nation under your care; R. And guide us in the way of justice and truth. Our Lenten services open with 1 John 1:8,9: If we say we have no sin, we deceive…
There are several Outreach activities scheduled for the next month or so that parishioners are invited to join. March 15 during Coffee Hour—Deacon Donna Arellano will be leading an assembly line in Wells Hall to put together lunch boxes for…
Suffrages A.1 V. Show us your mercy, O Lord;R. And grant us your salvation. The Prayer of Humble Access in our Rite 1 Eucharist addresses a God “whose property is always to have mercy.” Mercy is one of…
Lenten Reflections on Suffrages A I will confess to having more trouble with intercessory prayer than most folks I meet. I recognize that it’s scripturally-enjoined and -approved, and I do pray for things and people, etc. But, whenever I stop,…
Hello! I always suspected I might end up living in a church, but I just assumed it’d be in a belfry somewhere. All things considered, this is much more comfortable! Tacoma has been my home my entire life, ever since…
Ministry in the Church is a bit like growing a garden: loose soil is ripe for planting, hardened and dry soil is tilled, watered, fed. Plants grow, sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly. Often plants sprout, unplanned, in unexpected places. Every plant is dormant for a season, drawing resources deep from the earth and getting ready for spring growth. And every plant is fed by what grew before it, plants that die become compost that is essential for new growth.