What's Happening
School Tools
August 2-16: Help students from low-income families start school with the tools for success!
Gardening Help Needed
Help maintain our pollinator garden and our other green spaces on Monday mornings during the summer.
Director of Music Search Survey
The Director of Music Search Committee welcomes your feedback and advice.
Disability Pride Month
We are celebrating Disability Pride Month as we work toward greater and more purposeful Disability Awareness and Inclusion here at St. John’s.
Summer Forum Series
“What is the Church doing at Eucharist?” Sunday mornings beginning June 14
Recent Sermons
Honoring The Philadelphia Eleven
The kingdom of heaven is collective liberation made manifest, One Way of love and justice with many paths. Jesus talks about those many paths in the parables we read today, going from gardener to baker to treasure-seeker to trader to fisher. A world rooted in a God that is one-in-three necessitates diverse and interconnected ways of practicing God’s love and justice.
Wheat and Weeds: Harvesting Hope While Gently Unburdening Our Despair
Spiritual hope is harvested unseen after many seasons of patiently, gently, and consistently caring for our innermost parts. Parts that need constant gardening. How do we do this inner, spiritual work when we cannot immediately identify our wheat or our weeds?
Disability Pride Month: “God Sows on Every Kind of Soil — Including Ours”
The sower in Jesus’ parable does not see “less than.” The sower sees soil worth sowing in. God’s Word does not depend on perfect soil. God’s call does not depend on perfect bodies. God’s grace does not depend on perfect minds. God sows because God sees possibility where the world sees limitation.
Check out the latest:
"E-vangelist" Articles
Gardeners of Hope: Sowing Seeds of Love
This is more than resistance: this is an opportunity to create positive change in a meaningful way that is centered on our faith and is focused on improving the lives of others.
A Whole Lot of Fire!
That fire is now fueling my determination to find ways to push back against the growing White Christian Nationalism that is poisoning our country, perverting my faith, threatening my family, and destroying our democracy.
