Greetings, St. Jude family. Ashley and I consider it a great privilege to be counted among you. Thank you for the love and kindness you have shown us, St. Jude and the community. Because of your generosity, St. Jude has been able to give more than $70,000 over the past year to...
This year, I couldn’t wait for the first Sunday of Advent. As a lover of the Christian Liturgical Calendar (and a nerd), I look forward to the start of the Christian new year, when the church stoles turn from green to purple and families come forward to light the Advent wreath...
Guilt and shame, it’s a messy part of ourselves that we do not want to examine. The terms creep into our language, but we don’t know how to distinguish between the two. Often used interchangeably even though the meaning of the two words are distinct. Guilt is linked to our...
Hey Friends, Nika here. If you’ve ever taken a TAP class with me, then you know I like to assign final projects of sorts to drive home what God taught us in our classes. We have been dazzled by poems, recipes, musical scores, stories, and children’s books just to name a few. The goal...
This weekend we announced our departure from the Presbyterian Church of America (PCA). If you would like to listen to the announcement, you can listen to it here. We understand this might have created questions for you all, and we want to address those questions or concerns this weekend. If you...
Since the trinity paradoxically is both 3 and 1, Christians throughout history have tried to define the triune God through the use of metaphors. For example, you might have heard that God is like an egg: one person of the Trinity is the shell, another one is the white, and the final one is...
There’s no getting around it: Our understanding of the Trinity is foundational to our Christian faith. But is it so important that we need to spend time slogging through thousands of years of church history to learn more? Or can we just accept it as fact and move on? Here at St...
“How’s your new job?” If I had a dollar for every time I have heard this question the last two months, I would be able to take us all out for the Smooth Operator at Emporium. After fumbling through several poorly crafted responses, I developed my go-to...
