Vaccine hopes make a German Willkommen possible once again! The Oberammergau Passion Play has been rescheduled for 2022 and St. Paul has reservations for the June 30 performance. This study travel will take place June 20–July 2, 2022 and there is a p…
A Map Is Only One Story: Twenty Writers on Immigration, Family, and the Meaning of Home is the 2021 All St. Paul Reads book. All St. Paul Reads is encouragement for all to read and talk about a single book title in the same year. In 2021, this virtua…
This Tuesday I needed to pop home for an hour to take care of my three-year-old, Maggie. That much I was expecting, and I was looking forward to it. It’s not every day that the two of us get to share some one-on-one time. What I was not expecting was…
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My faith journey hasn’t always been clear, but as the years continue and things change in my life, my relationship with God has continued to grow. My family didn’t attend church regularly growing up and my faith in God wasn’t at the forefront of my c…
Before I started attending St. Paul, I hadn’t been a church-goer since my teens. To put that in perspective, I’m soon going to be 65. For all those years before St. Paul, I used to tell myself that it was OK that I didn’t go to church, that it was en…
Recently, I achieved a milestone. Twenty years of service as a mother! As all parents know, these days are often long. I’ve worried about our children’s education, their health and their future. I’ve worried that my kids don’t read enough, don’t pra…
One thing that has given me hope is the fact that I get to attend Davenport Central High School. This is very meaningful to me because I have wanted to attend there since I was 3 years old. My parents attended there and I was able to grow a passion f…
Since the beginning of 2020, a lot of things changed for me – as they did for many others. I experienced my first special election and entered the pandemic in March; helped run an Iowa primary election and bought my first car in June; moved into my f…
My thrill of hope was the anticipation of the birth of my grandchildren. From the announcement that my daughter-in-law and son were expecting a baby to the day of their birth, I thought of the hopes I had for their future. What will the future hold f…
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Joel Moore is a registered nurse and a deacon in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. He serves as director of care coordination for in-patients at Genesis Health Systems. Earlier this week, he received one of the first vaccines for COVID-19 i…
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The Saturday before the first Sunday in Advent, a short, square, white box is removed from its shelf in the basement and brought upstairs. The contents of this box are one of the most precious gifts I have ever been given. It is the family’s nativity…
When I first started baking bread, I challenged myself to make something that was not just store-bought, uniform, and pre-sliced. I wanted something different, the type of bread that was hard to describe – but when you had it, you knew it was somethi…