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Spooktacular Sunday
posted on Oct 25, 2024 Dear Saints, This Sunday, we have our annual Halloween processional where kids, and kids at heart, get to dress up and process during the 10:15am Opening Hymn. Our postlude is the not-to-be-missed Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, followed by...
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Social Justice Corner Newsletter October 24, 2024
posted on Oct 24, 2024 Participating
in an election is part of exercising the power you have to positively impact
your community through participation in our collective system of governance. It
is, quite directly, a means of carrying out the Gospel call to care for ...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column October 22, 2024
posted on Oct 22, 2024 Talking About Politics If we fear or hate this present moment, if we're tempted to blame it on evangelicals (who do, indeed, bear fair share of the blame), the rest of us might spend just a moment looking in the mirror. What does it say wh...
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Weekly Rector's Note
Rev. Sara Fischer Special Guest + Fall Cleanup this Sunday
posted on Oct 18, 2024 Dear Saints, This Sunday, I look forward to welcoming Rev. Sara Fischer as our special guest and preacher. Mother Sara is a long-time Portland priest with a heart for those on the margins. Hope & Bread, where she currently ministers, is a new E...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column October 15, 2024
posted on Oct 15, 2024 Eloheh In the Cherokee language, this concept of well-being is often called Eloheh ( pronounced ay-luh-HAY). The Cherokee meaning of well-being is deep and resonant, and it is hard to capture in English. Eloheh means "well-being," yes, ...
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Weekly Rector's Note
Fun Things In October
posted on Oct 11, 2024 Dear Saints,
October is such a fun month at All Saints! Last week we had a wonderful time blessing our adorable pets, and our children did such a nice job on their animal song and all the motions.
Coming up we have the Parent's Night Out on...
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Social Justice Corner Newsletter October 10, 2024
posted on Oct 10, 2024 As we approach the General Election, our focus will be on non-partisan election engagement. Senator Raphael Warnock (GA) reminded us that "A vote is a kind of prayer about the kind of world you want to live in". The Office of Gove...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column October 8, 2024
posted on Oct 8, 2024 Our Nobility The nobility we carry within us includes our acts of courage and endurance and trust and faith that we will carry on and that justice and peace can triumph. There is a resilience to our species and our communities that will no...
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Weekly Rector's Note
St. Francis Sunday
posted on Oct 4, 2024 Dear Saints, Every year I look forward to this coming Sunday. Our St. Francis celebration, where we invite our animal family members and companions to worship with us, is usually a noisy, energetic, slightly chaotic service that presents us wit...
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Social Justice & Advocacy Column October 1, 2024
posted on Oct 1, 2024 Life at the Crossroads For most of my life, I have had the feeling that humanity was nearing a crossroads...Now, all of a sudden, we go around a bend and here it is. We stop, hardly able to believe that now it is happening, hardly able to be...
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