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This evening is the beginning of the Jewish festival of Purim (POOR-um); well, it is if you are reading this on the day it appears in the St. Paul e-news (Feb. 25, 2021). Our Jewish neighbors will be undertaking a long-standing and meaningful observa…
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The St. Paul Endowment Committee recently approved tuition support for Liz Kuster, a St. Paul member and seminary student at Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, or LSTC. She was recently featured in a campus publication. Here is an excerpt: Liz K…
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Recently a good friend of mine called to check-in. She happens to reside in a nursing home, and her recent months have been less than stellar. Actually, she never hesitates to tell me they have been awful. So I was glad to hear from her about a brigh…
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Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten journey to Easter for Christians. An online Ash Wednesday service will feature a host of gifted musicians and Pastor Peter Marty preaching. The link will be sent by email at 4 p.m. or available at youtu…
St. Paul is once again partnering with St. Ambrose University to bring Aging Innovatively to the community. Learn new strategies to help yourself live well as you age. In this five-week program, St. Ambrose doctoral students and faculty from the Occu…
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The 90’s movie Four Weddings and a Funeral, is a brilliant romantic comedy, but my favorite part is not any of the jokes or the weddings, but the funeral. The friends gather to mourn the death of Gareth, a man of enthusiasm and unbridled joy. His par…
It all started when Eric Stewart wanted to drink less Dr. Pepper. Actually, that’s when the need for iced tea started…which then grew into a desire for homegrown mint in his iced tea. “I take a Thermos full of tea each day to school,” said Eric, wh…
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The snow we received on Tuesday was the most powdery I’d seen in a long time. It was nothing like the dense, icy precipitation that has stuck around underneath. The contrast reminded me of an old claim that Eskimos have more than 50 different words f…