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Pledging to Christ & St. Luke’s: Frequently Asked Questions
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How Can We Have Hope When the Problems Are So Big? — Reading “This Sacred Life” By Norman Wirzba
It’s been a busy fall season at Christ & St. Luke’s with a lot of focus on questions of environmental stewardship and how we can make a difference when the world throws up so many challenges. The Rector’s October Book Club choice focused our minds on these questions.
Finding Hope Amidst the Rising Tide with Margaret Renkl
Christ & St. Luke’s recently hosted our annual Jim Sell Community Conversation, a ministry dedicated to fostering respectful dialogue around difficult issues while promoting growth and change. The topic of this year’s conversation was environmental stewardship.
Urgency of Need To Act on Flooding Not Lost on Norfolk Church
This opinion column by The Rev. Noah Van Niel addresses the dire need for community action to address flooding in Norfolk.
Christopher’s story: Chronic skin conditions challenge school attendance and self-esteem
Everyone’s skin is unique and has its own set of problems. But African children’s skin conditions can be more common due to sensitivity and the lack of available treatment. Christopher is eleven years old and had attended Kawaida Primary in class six. Yet...
Visiting The Saint John’s Bible
This past June, a small cohort from our parish had the opportunity to travel to Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, to see the original illuminated manuscript of The Saint John’s Bible. This work of devotional art has been referred to as “America’s...
When Faith Feed Thousands
At Together for Kenya we see the Gospel message in the work we accomplish every day in Kenya. Guided by the enduring principles of God’s word we care for the vulnerable and respond to their needs with love and action. Over 3,000 school children at Kawaida Primary,...
On Wars and Rumors of Wars: A Pastoral Letter
It was just a couple months before I began serving here at Christ & St. Luke’s that Russia launched their full-scale invasion of Ukraine. And so, from the time I arrived here as your priest we have been witness to war. A little more than 18 months after that, on...
Together for Kenya’s WeCare Program
Together for Kenya is working to bring healthcare to Kenyan children through WeCare. In 2024 Together for Kenya began the WeCare program with the challenge of providing medical care are services to needy children in the Kawaida Kenya area. In...
An Invitation to Holy Week
This Sunday begins the holiest week in the life of the Church. It is a time when we are drawn into the drama of Jesus’ final days with liturgies that are as participatory as they are profound. Together we will experience some of those touchstone moments that help us...
Together for Kenya brings dignity to special needs children
Since 2024 Together for Kenya has helped to initiate and support a “Special Needs Education” classroom at Kawaida Primary School. Donations of classroom tables, chairs and renovations provided for the needs of over 25 children with disabilities as severe autism, down...
Are We There Yet?
"Are we there yet?" That ubiquitous phrase uttered by children and adults when on a car ride to anywhere. Going to visit the beloved grandparents? Going to the grocery store? The number of times this is queried is contingent on many variables, like the length of trip...
This Present Darkness: Advent light in a dark season
When you are tempted to allow yourself to be swallowed up by darkness this season, in whatever form it may come to you, let the image of the Advent wreath shine in your mind.
Why a Requiem and Why Duruflé?
On Sunday, November 3, at 5:30 p.m., we will observe the Feast of All Souls’ with an extraordinary musical work, Maurice Duruflé’s Requiem, sung by our choir in the context of a Eucharist service. In the modern church, this feast day is often combined with All Saints’...
Prioritizing Healing and Unity after a Contentious Election
And so, it arrives. The battle lines are drawn. The yard signs are planted. The pundits have exhausted every angle of analysis and argument. And for all the ink spilled and money spent, the polls are stuck in a dead heat. Nov. 5 looms like a storm cloud on the...
