This Sunday, Jan. 10, Sunday learning returns for adults, kids, and youth at St. Paul. ADULTS Sunday morning learning for adults starts back up with three options, 10:45-11:30 a.m. Explore big questions with a presenter in the Chapel. Engage in a tho…
The St. Paul Mental Health Awareness Team will host a mental health movie night on Tuesday, Jan. 26, 7 p.m., in the Chapel. That’s Just Crazy Talk, written and performed by Victoria Maxwell, looks at both the light and dark side of living with bipola…
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The kitchen is warm on a chilly winter morning. A pasta dish is coming out of the oven, pots and pans are clanking, and there’s a lot of chopping going on. Each person has an assinged job to do – setting the tables with napkins and silverware, washin…
Smooth and unfinished, wooden palm crosses have touched the lives of countless St. Paul people and those they love. As the creator of these simple objects of faith begins to step into retirement, and their availability in the St. Paul Book Corner dis…
Steve is bright, resourceful, and fun loving, blessed with the capacity in not taking himself too seriously. He also happens to be deeply faithful – a guy who loves the Lord and who, with his wife Joan, has made St. Paul Lutheran Church a second home…
St. Paul’s annual meeting will be held on Sunday, Feb. 7, at 10:30 a.m. in the Sanctuary. This meeting includes approving the 2016 budget, and the review of 2015 financials and annual report. Pastor Peter Marty will present a state-of-the-church repo…
Flight Behavior, a novel from American author and biologist Barbara Kingsolver, is the 2016 All St. Paul Reads selection. Discussion about the book, set in an Appalachian town in Tennessee, will take place on Thursday, Feb. 4, at 6-8 p.m., in the Lib…
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It’s not easy being the church these days. Actually, it has never been easy. But let’s focus on the present moment since that’s where we find ourselves. By difficult, I don’t mean weathering critics of the church who enjoy pointing out how Christians…
All former Youth Choir singers, in college and beyond, are invited to join the current Youth Choir for worship on Sunday, Jan. 3. Gather to rehearse a favorite anthem, Who Is the Lamb?, at 8:30 a.m. in the Chapel. The choir sings during the 9:20 a.m….
Tannishia Garcia stood in the living room of her new home, six days before Christmas, and gave thanks. The race to complete her home before the end of the year was complete, thanks to her hard work and the support of countless people. She and her fam…
A Sunday-morning series will explore the practice of voluntary simplicity – listening to our lives through a dialogue about time, money, food, spirituality, heritage, community. Led by Pastor Katy Warren and Ann McGlynn, director of communication, th…
One of my favorite Christmas carols is Once in Royal David’s City. Whenever the music begins and I hear the soprano solo during the first verse, I get overwhelmed by the sacredness that is Christmas. Every time I sing this song, it evokes my memories…