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Learn about what’s happening at St. Peter’s in our Weekly Herald Newsletter.

Serendipitous Joy

I am driving home from church this past Sunday, and as I make my way through the lower end of my neighborhood, I see what looks like checkerboards bouncing around down the street from me.  As I get closer, I realize that the checkerboards are actually people … people who are all wearing identical pajamas…

December 2020 Herald

This month’s Herald is available for Download. Inside This Issue . . . Worship Schedule – 2 Adult Christian Ed. – 4 Committees – 5 Groups & Events – 8 Pastoral Letters – 9 Worship & Music – 11 Youth Ministries – 12 St. Peter’s Kids – 12 St. Peter’s Preschool – 13 From the…

Grief Must Be Given Its Time

“I no longer comfort others with false cheer.  In the hospital, where my encounters with patients are ever more distanced by sterile gloves, computer protocols, and the pressures of time, one way I can still be present is during their moments of grief.  I don’t encourage anyone to move on, to replace, to remarry, or…

One Saint

Since my age regularly reminds me that I have far more miles on my odometer in the past, than I have left in the future … yes, because I am “seasoned” … there are certain times of the year that I look to the days of old, more than I do to the future.  All…

November 2020 Herald

This month’s Herald is available for download Inside This Issue . . . Worship Schedule – 2 Adult Christian Ed. – 5 Committees – 6 Groups & Events – 9 Pastoral Letters – 11 From Director of Music – 13 Worship & Music – 13 Youth Ministries – 14 St. Peter’s Kids – 14 St.…

Covid Discipleship

I spend the morning mostly alone in my office at church, where I type, read a commentary in preparation for the Sunday sermon, answer emails, and participate in a mercifully short Zoom meeting.  The time passes quickly.  I have a couple of cups of coffee which springs me from the solitary confinement of my office,…

Second Grade Teachers

I’m standing behind my grandson, watching his iPad screen over his shoulder.  The picture that heads today’s devotion is not what I saw … but put the kiddos in a Zoom screen and it could have been.  I was watching his 2nd grade math class as he Zoomed in from our home.  His mom’s friend…

The Eyes of St. Francis

If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.   –Francis of Assisi (circa 1182-1226) Compassion and pity are not the soup of the day in the social buffet that is life in America these…