An Earth Day Reflection from Cynthia Stengel
Over my lifetime, I've seen many changes in our use of the land and water we've inherited: gone are the cattle and farmyard animals on little family farms, gone the milkman who pumped milk out of the holding tank and took it to the dairy every other day. Gone the bone-chilling winter days and snowbanks higher than my head...
Worship in Easter | Hope Beyond Hope
This Easter season lasts for seven Sundays--a week of weeks to dwell in the promises of resurrection. Here at St. Luke’s our theme this Easter season is Hope Beyond Hope...
Good Friday with children
It can be hard to talk about death or understand what it means to have "new life." That's normal and it's okay. Easter is a mystery that will keep taking on new meaning as we grow...
Maundy Thursday at home
With nightfall tonight, our Lenten observance comes to an end, and we join Christians around the world in celebrating the Three Days of Jesus’ death and resurrection. This is one of the most intimate and embodied days of the church year...
Holy Week 2020
Welcome to the week that the church has set aside to remember the mystery of Christ's passion, death, and resurrection. It gives me great strength and wonder to know that even as our world faces global crisis--pandemic exacerbated by pre-existing injustice--Christians around the world this week will open their Bibles, gather around their computer screens, sing across alleyways, and recite from memory the story that has always been the sure foundation of our faith...
Jesus was incarcerated pre-trial
Over 2,000 years ago Jesus was unjustly arrested and incarcerated pre-trial. Today, in Cook County over 2,000 people - mostly Black and Brown people - are trapped in jail during a global pandemic, just because they cannot afford bail...