Thoughts on music and how it can deepen our relationship with God.
You may have seen in the most recent weekly update that the staff are working diligently toward holding in-person worship indoors. In that announcement you would have seen that this service is being offered without sung music. In this article, I attempt to explain how we arrived at that decision and talk about what it…
This article is a continuation of a series (beginning with parts one and two) which looks to explore how God is at work among God’s people from the lens of the prescribed old testament readings from the Revised Common Lectionary. Making promises, providing in times of need, and raising up leaders from unexpected places all…
St. Peter’s presents a Hymn Festival entitled “No Darkness at All” Saturday, February 22nd at 7pm. The evening will be a celebration of hymnody and theologically-centered readings from the Bible and other sources centered around the theme of God’s light shared with God’s people and the whole world. Hymn festivals are a development from the…
You can feel the winds of change in the air. The physical winds bringing colder air from the arctic north that freezes out the plants, birds, and bugs. Other winds of change blow through our community with decisions made at congregational meeting, the turn toward the new church and calendar years, and an increase in…
The next concert in the 2019-2020 Musical Arts Concert Series at St. Peter’s will feature the Pennsylvania Flute Choir on Saturday, October 19, 2019, at 7pm. The Pennsylvania Flute Choir performs a wide variety of music from classical to jazz to sacred. A number of different flutes will be featured in the concert. Based in…
There’s a wonderful text that comes to us from a 9th-century Eastern Byzantine Rite: All of us go down to the dust,yet even at the grave we make our song:Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia. At first glance this text may seem like a downer. We’re reminded that none of us escape our mortality on this earth.…
