This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXV No 49

The perils of hiding from unfashionable realities

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A young acquaintance shocked me recently while discussing the horrific onslaught by the Islamic State terrorists in Iraq and Syria. He confessed he had only a vague idea of where the two countries were located and an even hazier notion as to goals of the terrorists’ campaign of mayhem and slaughter.

Syria . . . → Read More: The perils of hiding from unfashionable realities

Christmas Carolling

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Volunteer singers are needed for our annual Christmas carolling excursion to Heart Home on Seminary Avenue. The singers will meet for a brief rehearsal after the 9:15 AM service on Sunday, 14 December. On Tuesday, 16 December, we will gather at the church at 6:00 PM and carpool to Heart Homes to sing carols. If . . . → Read More: Christmas Carolling

This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXV No 48

This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXV No 47

Fourth Annual Knitters ‘Silent Auction’ open for bids

Silent Auction items

The Knitters have been at it again! Now in its fourth year, the knitter’s Silent Auction is open for bids with another phenomenal array of hand-knitted items to be auctioned off in conjunction with the Cookie Walk.

Their impressive display is located in the hallway outside Quimby Hall. Come and check it out. You . . . → Read More: Fourth Annual Knitters ‘Silent Auction’ open for bids

Let’s all sing: ‘Sit down, O persons of God’

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Tragedy, they say, usually repeats itself as farce—an observation that might well be made about the political correctness that permeates our mainline churches.

After all, the vision of well-fed, pompous prelates doing the sort of things required by cutting edge liturgists—liturgical dance immediately springs to mind—is really quite shriekingly funny.

And . . . → Read More: Let’s all sing: ‘Sit down, O persons of God’

Progress? Ah, yes! I remember it well!

Sunbeam T-20

iPhones clearly exercise the most extraordinary fascination upon the American mind. It’s impossible to go anywhere today—restaurants, airports, hospital waiting rooms, ballgames—without encountering hordes of people staring, seemingly witlessly, at tiny rectangular screens.

It’s not so different, I suppose, from the New York daily commute s of 30 years ago when like numbers of . . . → Read More: Progress? Ah, yes! I remember it well!

This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter:St. Stephens News XXV 45

Deafening silence over plight of Iraqi Christians

Our news media has been replete of late with outrage at the horrific display of Islamic fanaticism in Syria and Iraq—the wholesale slaughter co-religionists considered heretics, and the rape, abduction and enslavement of tens of thousands of women.

It is hard to believe that any American—with the exception, perhaps, of our homegrown Moslem fanatics—fails to . . . → Read More: Deafening silence over plight of Iraqi Christians