New Healing Ministry
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Announcing New Healing Ministry: Beginning Sunday, March 3, there will be a new healing ministry offered at the 10:00 service at St. Mary’s. New member and senior seminarian, Lauren Giaccone, is offering this ministry, but others are invited to join the team. As you return from communion a prayer station will be set up near [...]
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
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AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER – UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA “Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]” 16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If [...]
Dick’s Sporting Goods
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(CNN) — Dick’s Sporting Goods, one of the largest sporting goods retailers in the world, says it has removed all guns from its store nearest to Newtown, Connecticut, and is suspending the sale of certain kinds of semi-automatic rifles from its chains nationwide. The move was made out of respect for the victims and families [...]
Enter Moloch
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By Garry Wills | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/dec/15/our-moloch/?printpage=true 1/3 NYRblog : Roving thoughts and provocations from our writers Our Moloch Garry Wills Andrew Bret Wallis/Getty Images Few crimes are more harshly forbidden in the Old Testament than sacrifice to the god Moloch (for which see Leviticus 18.21, 20.1-5). The sacrifice [...]
Hurrican Sandy Relief Update
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As of 8 Nov St. Mary’s is hosting a volunteer disaster relief team from All Hands, see their website at www.hands.org The team has set up operations in the undercroft and is coordinating volunteers and needed work. We give thanks for the team and their efforts and pray for their safety and well-being.
Breaking the Code
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Breaking the Code: Beginning October 26th, St. Mary’s Episcopal Church at 347 Davis Avenue will offer an 8-week course on the Book of Revelation. The class is based on the book, Breaking the Code, by Dr. Bruce Metzger, New Testament Professor Emeritus of Princeton Theological Seminary. The book is available for purchase at the church [...]
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