Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! This past Sunday, St. Stephen's received incredible hospitality from St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church as we joined them for their church picnic. Their kids were in the yard playing when we gathered with them after their service for hamburgers, hot dogs, …
A Word: on doubt and faith
It’s easy to read this gospel and think it is about Peter’s lack of faith. But that is reading it completely backwards. Why we secretly love doubt more than faith Claiming a mustard seed faithProper 14A | Genesis 37:1-4, 12-28, Matthew 14:22-33 So which do we go with: attempted murder or …
Speaking
Disciples, Apostles, and Saints! On August 9th, we celebrated a modern saint, Edith Stein, Philosopher, Monastic, and Martyr. Born a Jew in Germany in 1891, Edith converted to Christianity in the 1920s. This would not protect her from being a victim of genocide, however, as she died in the gas …