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Last month, I happened to read an article in the Wall Street Journal detailing the life and work of a cobbler named James Fucile. At 83 years old and with nearly sixty years in the business, James finally decided to retire and close down his shoe rep…
Chicago, Illinois – The board of directors of The Christian Century, the flagship journal of Protestant thinking in America, has named Pastor Peter W. Marty as publisher. Marty’s role will be to advance the vision and financial strength of the public…
The topic of the afternoon was fostering excellence in pastoral ministry. Five students – Karyn Kost, Steven Gallego, Anders Nilsen, Kevin OBryan, and Daniel Heim – gathered with Pastor Peter Marty in the Luther Loft earlier this week, thinking throu…
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My 3-year-old daughter loves to play hide and seek. The thing that makes this particularly fun for all of us is that she is terrible at it. The game usually goes like this – I’ll start counting and she’ll run to a corner of our house and curl up in a…
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…