Churchy

Evensong, sung by the St. Paul's Choir, Simon Lee guest director, John Abdenour, organ, with Gregory Sullivan, bass soloist. Click here for the service bulletin.

"Maybe that’s a gift we can receive on any kind of birthday—the grace to look honestly at where we’ve been, repent where repentance is needed, give thanks where grace has carried us farther than we deserved, and choose again the kind of people we want to be."

"Peter and Paul’s broken pieces don’t disqualify them, and neither do ours."

"There are countless examples like this that generate real grief over the loss of an imagined future or a version of belonging, but what Jesus seems to be saying is that the peace being protected was not true peace; it was an equilibrium held in place by the unspoken assumption that if you tell the truth, you will lose everything. That scarcity story, like most of them, is a lie."

"Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it."

(Mary Oliver)

"Jesus is asking us to turn our hearts inside out, to let mercy reconcile the contradictions."

Anderson Deutsch, Natalie Fredericks-Saintelus, and Hugh Hutchinson share senior sermons.

Conor Glynn, violin

"The architecture of division itself is a foe between us and our world’s ability to flourish. And the sorting, the othering, the making certain people unimaginable to us is exactly what the Spirit interrupts at Pentecost."