St. John’s parishioner Jamie Bents, artist and owner of j.teabee ceramics, has begun creating shells for the church to use in the sacrament of baptism.

By Cammie Beattie   Ten years ago, this church made a commitment. Led by Barbara Mraz and Jennifer Kinkead via Give Us Wings, it was

Saying Farewell to the Elliott & the Van Yperen/James Families. By Ellie Watkins For the past half-decade, St. John’s has been blessed with two families

Dear friends in Christ, I know I’ve talked about my friend Naomi in the past, but I was thinking about her as we began this

By Jennifer Neil Tianen My dear friends in Christ, I am not the pronoun police and I do not have a politically correct ideological agenda

The Episcopal Church has a long and complicated history of wrestling with and discerning the full inclusion of out gay and lesbian persons fully into

By Kevin Seitz-Paquette Our culture would have us believe that there is some inherent tension in being both Christian and a member of the LGBT

By Ellie Watkins Jim Johnson is a longtime fixture at St. John’s—a friendly face greeting people on Sundays and an experienced voice contributing to committee

At the beginning of the 21st century, the National Study of Youth and Religion was released as one of the most significant pieces of sociological

By Ellie Watkins Jean Hansen has always felt called to work with young people. “I remember how hard it was to be a teenager,” she