Come sit with me on Sunday, any Sunday. You’ll see why I love St. Theodore’s. I look forward to a bit of quiet time before the service begins. I give thanks for the people in the pews around us. As they did when you arrived today, they’ve each greeted me with...
We are a church that believes that God created each of us out of love and that we are to share that same love with everyone. That is the mission of the church as a whole - to welcome each other with the radical grace, love and compassion that Jesus did.
Caring is so much a part of what makes us human. When we stop caring, we lose a big chunk of our humanness.
It is imperative that, as Christians, we remember that we have each taken vows to “Strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being.”
Sojourner’s magazine and daily online publication posted an article titled 8 Sayings Christians Use to Let Ourselves Off the Hook, by Natalie Patton. Patton wrote the article in August of 2017, and either I have been out of touch for a bit, or the article has just recently trickled down to...
Sometimes all of the weight of the not so joyous moments suppress the joyful ones - or at least shorten them. The vacation, the wonderful night out, time spent with loved ones, surprises that put smiles on our faces.
What a variety of resource/research and reading material you can find on the shelves of St. Theodore’s parish library! Here are some examples. Are you thinking of that scripture verse you like so much and can’t locate it in the Bible? We have a concordance that lists every...
What is it about being Eastered that changes us? How are we changed? What are we doing about it? What, as a community of Christ’s followers—Resurrection believers—are we doing about it in our community? How does that change the world?
We are called to be the beloved community. We are called, especially during this season of Lent, to reconcile with God and with each other.
On Sunday, January 28th we held our 38th Annual Parish Meeting. The parish hall was full of St. Theodorians and as always there was plenty of food to go around. We began with a presentation of our budget for 2018 and had discussion about trends and realities we were facing financially as a...