Since Kara’s arrival we’ve taken parish photos every year; yesterday we took the picture for 2009. We’ve now got enough of a collection (5 years’ worth) that you might enjoy seeing them all in one place.
Most pictures have been uploaded in larger than usual size to make them look better when you click on them [...]
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Here are the banners that greeted us as we walked into church today:
Thanks, Julianne!
Pentecost, as you know (ahem!), commemorates the manifestation of the Holy Spirit:
When the day of Pentecost had come, the disciples were all together in one place. And suddenly from heaven there came a sound like the rush of a violent wind, and [...]
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Earlier this month, I spoke at Northwestern University at their Environmental Intersections Panel. SEED {Students for Ecological and Environmental Development} organized the program to examine the connection between the environment and another topic. This year, the series looked at the relationship of religion to the environment. I spoke specifically about the Genesis Group at St. [...]
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The Genesis Group has partnered with a community supported agriculture (CSA) farm south of Chicago. St. John’s is a three season drop-off site (April-December). Farmer Vicki will be hosting a farm tour at Genesis Growers Farm on Sunday, June 28th from 1:00-5:00pm.
Genesis Growers Farm is located in St. Anne, IL (near Kankakee). The tour [...]
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Founded in January 2007, the Genesis Group is a faith-based committee focused on Christian living and environmental stewardship at St. John’s.
A sampling of some of our accomplishments:
-During Lent (2007), the GG organized a fair-trade coffee tasting and have since switched the congregation to fair trade coffee. We offer Bishop’s Blend, a fair trade project of [...]
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Hands to Help, which has drop in hours at St. John’s, was recently featured in the Chitown Daily. Read about it! (For the record the outreach worker does not buy cigarettes for people!)http://www.chitowndailynews.org/Chicago_news/Business_group_attacks_panhandling_with_kindness,26801
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St. John’s was privileged, Sunday afternoon, to play host to a spy.
Marthe Cohn, an agent for the French Army behind German lines during World War II, sat with us for more than an hour to tell the story of her family’s sad but courageous experience in the war, and of her own activities which earned [...]
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Congratulations to our seminarian, Julianne, on receiving her Master of Divinity degree yesterday at Seabury-Western’s commencement ceremony. Doesn’t she wear her hood well?
The cermony was held at the beautiful St. Luke’s Church in Evanston:
The festivities were bittersweet because Julianne’s was Seabury-Western Theological Seminary’s last graduating class, concluding 151 years of educating ministers for the Episcopal [...]
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In Kara’s sermon this morning, she read an email she received some months ago from Vicki Westerhoff, who delivers the produce from Genesis Growers to St. John’s every week. The email was so remarkable that I asked Kara if we could share it here, too.
Happily, Kara sent the whole sermon:
Every morning, when I was a [...]
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… that St. John’s once had its own track team?
It was only 98 years ago!
[Photo courtesy of Hugh.]
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