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What is Christian Hope?
Advent is a season of waiting, of joyful anticipation, of hope. A season in which we make the home that is our soul ready for the Holy One to move into. And I know I...
The Rev. Claire Nevin-Field
The Rev. Claire Nevin-Field is the rector of St. Peter's Church.
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A Web of Life
It would be hard to avoid bad news about the environment in the last few months. Reports in newspapers and scientific magazines have highlighted the rapid pace of climate heating with resulting loss of glaciers,...
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Day One of the Pilgrimage
After months of planning and preparation, it is finally here. The pilgrimage begins this evening in Glasgow as the group gathers for dinner, then tomorrow, we are off for 4 days on the Isle of...
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The Story of Death and New Life
Easter is late this year—almost as late as it can occur—and I often find it harder to “walk” the events of Holy Week, the last week of Jesus’ earthly life, when spring is in full...
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Let’s Dance!
Lent, the 40 days preceding Easter, is thought of, imagined, in various ways: a desert journey, a wilderness expedition, spring cleaning for the soul. This year, though, I have been thinking about Lent as more...
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A Season of Simplicity
In this season of Advent, when consumerism is at peak frenzy, the church lives a season of simplicity, simplifying worship and song.
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The Gender of God
One of the things we at St. Peter’s have been working on is making the language in our worship services less gender specific (male) and more expansive (using expanded images for God).
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Do Not Lose Heart
I have been watching with increasing horror the spectacle of children being separated from their parents at the border of the United States. Families, most of whom are desperate and fleeing violence, arrive on our...
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Rest and Reconnect this Summer
In the middle of the program year at church, often around February, I start to dream of the summer. Those days when the pace of life will be slower, when there will be less going...
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Encountering God in the Churchyard
On Earth Day, April 22, instead of a usual sermon, the Rev. Claire Nevin-Field invited St. Peter’s parishioners to go outside in the churchyard to think and pray about God’s creation. As those of you...