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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Rev. Laurie is one of four women clergy featured in Duke University’s most recent edition of Faith & Leadership. Click here to read the article: “Women Clergy and the Pandemic: Weary, But Not Giving Up.”
Dear People of St. Francis, Masks are off or optional in many settings. I listen to your summer plans and hear long delayed lunches, trips and family visits woven into your calendars. Our church calendar includes in-person meetings and social gatherings again. Life seems to be returning to “normal.” But as we emerge from the pandemic, the thought that …
By Cheryl Foster, Director of Music The Covid-19 pandemic has been challenging in so many ways. Our lives have been turned upside down trying to stay safe. Worship at St Francis’ has been transformed over and over and I don’t know about you but I’ve been noticing how God has given us each other to regularly and …
By Leslie Heberlie, Director of Communications Spring is here! The past year of Covid–when schools and businesses shut down and many of us stayed home for months on end–felt like an interminable winter. For the safety of our families and communities, we hunkered at home during most of a year, in all four seasons acting …
I received an email a from parishioner this week (who permitted us to print this but wanted to remain anonymous). In it he said: I was looking through a book, and I came across a paragraph that explains that a quantum physicist recognizes that to observe an experiment is to affect its outcome. It made …
