Our clergy will post an article every Monday. Their thoughts and reflections will cover a wide array of topics, focusing on both Saint Luke's issues and those pertaining to the wider community. We hope you will return regularly to participate in our discussions. This commentary is for you, which means your feedback is very important to help guide our article topics. You are welcome to leave your own thoughts and reflections in the comments section at the end of each article.
May God bless you!
by Rusty Goldsmith
The current issue of “Forward Day by Day”, the Episcopal Church’s daily prayer guide, which I highly recommend as part of any adult’s spiritual practice, is an anniversary compilation of its best mediations of the past 75 years. If you are not already a regular user of “Forward”, you might consider taking it [...]
by Rebecca DeBow
My friend, John Ortberg, Christian psychologist and author, went to a yoga class with his wife. He admitted he wasn’t good at yoga at all, but the experience gave him a spiritual insight. He never heard the yoga instructor tell the class to try harder. She never said, “Try harder to stretch.” Ortberg [...]
by Steve DeGweck
Ash Wednesday is nearly upon us and with it the beginning of Lent. Lent has become associated through the ages with fasting and doing without. Thus many Christians give up something they enjoy for Lent ‑‑ some eat no meat, others no chocolate, etc. Such things are all well and good if they [...]
These days I’ve been telling my Bible study groups that to learn the meaning of the stories we find in our Bibles we have to know the “back story, ” and by this I mean the larger background event coloring whatever happens day to day. This could mean the event of the exile of [...]
by Chris Girata
We’ve all heard the tragic stories of people in the community and around the country who have been defaulting on their home mortgages. As the rippling effects of our Great Recession continue to spread across the economic pond, friends and neighbors have been brought to the financial brink, some even losing their homes [...]
by Rebecca DeBow
Brainwashing Anyone?
I’m talking about the kind of washing that cleans, disinfects, renews and refreshes. Watch our website for a link to a brief Christian meditation, including scripture, prayer, times of silence, and lasting no more than 10 minutes. Close your door and follow the directions to relax and experience a few quiet [...]
by Chris Girata
As the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, with one of the worst infant mortality rates in the world, and a population plagued by diseases such as hepatitis, typhoid fever, and malaria, Haiti could be considered the Job of all nations. And just like Job, Haiti is reeling from the pain and destruction [...]
by Chris Girata
The Young Adults had a fantastic class Sunday morning where we talked about technology in our culture and how it is reshaping our social structure, as well as where our faith and the Church fits into that transformation. We debated how we deal with technology at home, with our families and children, and [...]
by Steve DeGweck
The world says forgiveness is for wimps. What’s the saying? “Don’t get mad, get even.” I think it’s called “sweet” revenge. In the teaching of Jesus, forgiveness isn’t meant to be wimpy. It’s meant to break a cycle, a cycle that simply escalates further and further. Somewhere, somehow, we need to learn [...]
From his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace… John 1:16
Dear Friends,
During this season of Advent we tried something new at Saint Luke’s, inviting families to begin the 10:30 am service by lighting a candle on our Advent wreath. As I look back on this new tradition, I must conclude it was a pretty [...]
