In today’s podcast, Charlie West, shares some information from the church and world calendars including information about St. Patrick, St. Joseph, Thomas Ken, Johnny Appleseed and more. You can read along in Charlie’s blog “Words Twice a Week” at https://wordstwiceaweek.blogspot.com He also gives his poem to the challenge: a poem or a prayer on getting the word from here to there –

In today’s podcast, Charlie West gives us some of his thoughts on Sunday’s readings: Psalm 107, Num 21.4-9, Eph 2.1-10, and John 3.14-21. You can read along in Charlie’s blog “Words Twice a Week” at https://wordstwiceaweek.blogspot.com

He also gives us a prayer for the “least of us” by Junius Dotson and the following prayer for peace:

In today’s podcast, Charlie West, shares some information from the church and world calendars including information about Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, a couple of Gregorys, International Women’s Day, Harriet Tubman, pi day and more. He also gives this challenge: Seems like there ought to be a poem or a prayer on getting the word from here to there – stairways, highways (through the galaxy or to Alaska), roads, railroads, marches, telephone lines, space shuttles, dog sleds – well that’s gotten a little bit too broad. Challenge for the week – pick one and write a poem about it. You can read along in Charlie’s blog “Words Twice a Week” at https://wordstwiceaweek.blogspot.com

In today’s podcast, Charlie West gives us some of his thoughts on Sunday’s readings: Psalm 19, Exodus 20.1-17, 1 Cor 1.18-25, and John 2.13-22. He also gives us some thoughts and a story from Fred Craddock. You can read along in Charlie’s blog “Words Twice a Week” at https://wordstwiceaweek.blogspot.com

In today’s podcast, Charlie West gives us his squirrel verse answer to his last challenge. He shares some information from the church and world calendars including information about Chad, John and Charles Wesley, Rodney King, Patsy Cline and Bloody Sunday. He also gives us a prayer. You can read along in Charlie’s blog “Words Twice a Week” at https://wordstwiceaweek.blogspot.com and join him and friends as they read Gary Paulson’s book on the Iditarod, Winterdance on Zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81384673676?pwd=aEduQ245Ym5jTXFkRUdrd013RzFBUT09

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In today’s podcast, Charlie West talks about Handel, To Hot to Handel gives us his response to the challenge of the week and reflects on this Sunday’s readings. You can read along in Charlie’s blog “Words Twice a Week” at https://wordstwiceaweek.blogspot.com Here is Charlie’s “short fiction” – 280 characters or less - of the gospel story-

For our inaugural episode of the Getting to Know You podcast, join me as I speak with Mary Sullivan, long-time member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Learn more about how a squeaking church pew helped her find her spiritual home and how, as a part of that home, she has been able to live into her family's legacy of contributing to and taking care of one's community. Join in as we get to know each other a little better through conversation and telling our stories.

In today’s podcast, Charlie West, shares some information from the church and world calendars including information about St. Matthias, Emily Morgan, Muhammad Ali and Paul Harvey. He also gives us a challenge: 1) write an “Ode to the Cornish/Finnish Pasty” 2) write a verse to This Land Is Your Land from a perspective other than your own – ie, a maple tree, an animal on the verge of extinction, an animal not on the verge of extinction (the squirrels in our backyard waiting for us to plant stuff in the garden for them to dig up), the Mars rover Perseverance, an 11 year old (I just read The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie about the 11 year old Flavia deLuce). You can read along in Charlie’s blog “Words Twice a Week” at https://wordstwiceaweek.blogspot.com.

Getting to Know You is a podcast by Rev. Marna Franson, the new missioner for Marquette County for the Diocese of Northern Michigan. Join Marna as she discovers the people of Marquette County and the wonders of life in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

In today’s podcast, Charlie West, shares some information from the church and world calendars including information about the conversion of St. Paul, Thomas Aquinas, Robert Burns, the Challenger explosion and Robert Frost. He also gives us a prayer by Celeste Wilson. You can read along in Charlie’s blog “Words Twice a Week” at https://wordstwiceaweek.blogspot.com. Here is the prayer by Celeste Wilson: