This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXV No 17

Monthly In-giving for At Jacob’s Well

Sunday, May 4th, being the first Sunday of the month, is our designated collection day for At Jacob’s Well. They are extremely thankful for the ongoing faithfulness and generosity of the St. Stephen’s parish.

They continue to need basic food items and household supplies: canned ham, yams, sauerkraut, mayonnaise, mustard, paper towels, toilet paper, . . . → Read More: Monthly In-giving for At Jacob’s Well

History repeats itself as tragedy in Ukraine

History, they often say, starts as tragedy and repeats itself as farce. But in Ukraine tragedy is being repeated as tragedy. Russian strongman Vladimir Putin’s creeping occupation of the Ukraine is taken directly from the playbook Adolf Hitler devised for the invasion of Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s.

And the truly chilling aspect of Putin’s . . . → Read More: History repeats itself as tragedy in Ukraine

This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXV No 16

An ode to the past and a critique of the present

[The reception room beside the sanctuary is named in honor of the late Thomas F. Cadwalader, Jr., one of the most memorable of St Stephen’s founders. Recently, I came across the following article written by Tom’s father. It is an acutely perceptive commentary that is just as apt today as it was in 1937, when . . . → Read More: An ode to the past and a critique of the present

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Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXV No 15

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Here is this week’s newsletter:St. Stephens News XXV No 14

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Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXV No 13

Time to move our lips when we read

About the most difficult thing in the world today is finding a publisher for a volume of poetry. No matter whether they are tragedians, romantics, or writers of comic verse, poets are cold-shouldered by the major publishing houses.

Yet it wasn’t always so. Poetry’s decline as a popular cultural medium began less than 60 years . . . → Read More: Time to move our lips when we read

This Week’s Newsletter

Here is this week’s newsletter: St. Stephens News XXV No 12