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John 20:19-31

In her Easter Vigil sermon last Saturday – in the midst of this liminal space between Jesus’ death and resurrection – Episcopal Bishop, the Right Reverend Marianne Budde, spent time reflecting on the tension between doubt and faith.

The first disciples – witnessing the terror and chaos of Jesus’ crucifixion firsthand, not ye...


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On June 27, 1880 Catherine Everett and Arthur Henley Keller of Tuscumbia, AL, had a little girl, who they named Helen. She was a healthy baby – until around the age of 19 months where she contracted a mystery illness, described by 1880s doctors as an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain, leaving their previously healthy baby girl blind and deaf, in what Helen would ...


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John 13: 1-17, 21b-35

Very early in my ministry I learned that a number of people have great trouble with the kind of confession we used tonight. They reported when they were teenagers facing all sorts of questions about self worth and having sexual thoughts and feelings that made them uncomfortable, confessing that...


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PA: So, Pastor Libby, we’ve spent the past 5 weeks hearing messages from people here at St. James on the topic of “love”, under Christ’s mandate given to his disciples to “love one another as I have loved you”.

PL: That’s right! And what a wonderful series it has been!

We heard Tom Ulig reflect on the lov...


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Palm Sunday 2026

Today, Palm Sunday, has been described at times as a day of paradox – of contradiction.  A day, in many ways, that seems to go against common sense, that defies logic. 

Paradox, from the Greek παράδοξος (paradoxos), meaning “strange” or “remarkable things” – occurrences or events that defy accepted expectations a...


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