Each year when I see that Valentine’s Day is coming up, I remember a gentleman named Joe. When I spent the winters in Florida, I volunteered at the local homeless shelter, helping to make and serve the meals. There was a “regular” named Joe who came…
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John Hursey put on a pair of blue gloves and hopped onto the line at the security checkpoint of the Quad City International Airport. He checked through items placed into a bin making its way through the clearance process. He then took the items to th…
I’ve been thinking about brain science a little bit lately. On Sunday, I led a conversation with a room full of St. Paul parents about managing screen time. The conversation flowed out of the Digital Identity Faith Milestone event we hosted for 6th g…
St. Paul will open its doors to the community for two concerts this month, first for the Gustavus Adolphus College Choir and second for the Nova Singers’ winter concert. The events are open to the public. Gustavus Adolphus College Choir: On Friday, F…
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Words and images, permanently inked – St. Paul people have handwriting and colorful art as reminders of the people and images important to their lives of faith. ‘Where she is, God is’Jamie Carroll loved going to her grandmother’s house. It was a ti…
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St. Paul people will notice updates to three items important to worship life in this place. Each change has a story. Processional cross On special days in the church year and for many funerals, a large cross leads processionals at the beginning and…
St. Paul’s annual meeting will be held on Sunday, Feb. 4, at 10:30 a.m. in the Sanctuary. This meeting includes items of important business: approving the 2018 budget, the review of 2017 financials and annual report, and a vote on the slate of candid…
All St. Paul Reads will be Thursday, Feb. 8, 6-8 p.m. at St. Paul. The book for 2018 is Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. It is the winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. Dinner is provided, as a thank you from the…
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It all started with a little childhood obsession with birds. Young Charles Foster noticed the blackbirds flying around in his backyard and wanted to know all about them—what they ate, where their nests were situated, or what exactly enabled them to f…
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Over 50 years ago, Ezra Jack Keats helped a lot of people to see. It was simple, really. He wrote and illustrated a book called The Snowy Day about a child waking up in the city to a snowy day. Peter, the little boy, bundles up in a red snowsuit and…
Around tables and over a meal, young adults at St. Paul will worship together Thursday evening. The four important elements of worship will be present – gathering, word, meal, sending. But it will take on a different feel than traditional worship. A…
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The knock on the door came at 4:15 a.m., just more than 10 years ago. Kirby White’s beloved daughter, Elizabeth, had been killed by a person driving drunk, going the wrong way on an interstate. She was 19 years old, studying criminal justice at Des M…