-By Sam Allen, St. Luke’s parishioner and member of Public Policy and Environmental Action Team (PPEAT) For the past three weeks, St. Luke’s has joined churches around the world celebrating the 2022 Season of Creation. We’ve celebrated God’s creation of our earth, its beauty and its diversity of life forms, and we’ve acknowledged that humanity […]
By Barbara Ryland, St. Luke’s Parishioner and member of the Public Policy and Environmental Action Team (PPEAT) For thousands of years, creation care and love for the Earth have been integral to many religions. Not only have the earliest traditions expressed reverence for creation, but also the Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Islam, and Christianity) as well […]
September 2022 The Cathedral Church of St. Luke LIVING STONES Capital Campaign Final Report Fall 2022 The Cathedral’s LIVING STONES Capital Campaign officially wrapped up on December 31st ., 2020, after an amazing five-plus years. We are so grateful to everyone who made very generous donations to the Campaign, as well as to those who […]
On Monday of this week Christian Clough began as the cathedral’s new Canon for Liturgy and Music. We hope as many of you as can will be at the 10 am service this coming Sunday, September 4th, for Christian’s first Sunday with us and will stay for a festive coffee hour the choir is hosting. […]
Smoke, fire, streamers, and sticks…who wouldn’t want to play with those, especially in church? The Cathedral Church of St. Luke’s has a long tradition of using incense, torches, streamers, banners, processional crosses, and verges (those symbolic “sticks” that the vergers carry). With the retirement of two invaluable head vergers, Thurl Headen and David Savage, we’ve […]
From 1793 until 1933, U.S. Presidents, having been elected in November, weren’t inaugurated until the 4th of March in the subsequent year. During this gap of roughly four months, most Americans forgot who the new president was going to be, and began preparations for celebrating the (British) King’s official birthday, lining up marchers for […]
The Season of Creation is celebrated each year in September by Christians worldwide. Its purpose is to renew, repair, and restore our relationship with God, all creation, and each other. St. Luke’s will be celebrating the Season of Creation from September 11 to Oct 2. Season of Creation offerings at St. Luke’s that are planned […]
The 2022 Lambeth Conference, “God’s Church for God’s World” began on Tuesday. This is a worldwide gathering of all the bishops of the Anglican Communion led by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Read the whole program and pray and study resources. The controversy surrounding Lambeth this year revolves around the exclusion of the spouses of bishops […]
Last Sunday, Sarah Braik and Dean Shambaugh discussed their experience as deputies to General Convention, reviewed legislation passed at the General Convention in the areas of Creation Care and Racial Justice, and led a brainstorming session about what we, at St. Luke’s, and as St. Lukans might do in these areas. The following are notes […]
To increase efficiency and improve our offerings to the congregation and outreach to the wider community, I have decided to transition away from TOCmedia and move our communications in-house, with Avery Schott, our parish administrator, increasing his hours from 30 to 40 hours a week to take on this additional responsibility. Avery comes to us […]