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Friday Reflection: Eric Liddell II–Humanity Revealed in Internment
Friday Reflection: Eric Liddell II–Humanity Revealed in Internment

Join Suzanne Glover Lindsay to explore a wartime experience in China illuminated by Eric Liddell’s presence

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Friday ReflectionsSuzanne Glover LindsayFebruary 12, 2021Suzanne Glover Lindsay
Friday Reflection: Eric Liddell I–From Pious Traitor to Wartime Saint
Friday Reflection: Eric Liddell I–From Pious Traitor to Wartime Saint

Join our historian Suzanne’s entry into the extraordinary “other” side of the Olympic athlete in the movie Chariots of Fire.

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Friday ReflectionsSuzanne Glover LindsayFebruary 5, 2021Suzanne Glover Lindsay
Friday Reflection: The Priest who was Phillips Brooks
Friday Reflection: The Priest who was Phillips Brooks

Father Peter Kountz discusses Phillips Brooks in this installation of Friday Reflections.

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Friday ReflectionsPeter KountzJanuary 29, 2021Peter Kountz
Friday Reflection: Dorcas, come back: We need you!
Friday Reflection: Dorcas, come back: We need you!

Join our historian Suzanne to consider a remarkable community model for our turbulent times

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Friday ReflectionsSuzanne Glover LindsayJanuary 22, 2021Suzanne Glover Lindsay, Stained-glass windows
Friday Reflection: On Anthony the Great, Father of all the Desert Fathers
Friday Reflection: On Anthony the Great, Father of all the Desert Fathers

Father Peter explores the life and lessons of Anthony the Great, the Father of all desert Fathers.

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Friday ReflectionsPeter KountzJanuary 15, 2021Peter Kountz
Friday Reflection: What a QUAIL at my feet brought to mind
Friday Reflection: What a QUAIL at my feet brought to mind

Join me, St. Stephen’s historian, in my recent street encounter that led to broader thoughts about city life.

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Friday ReflectionsSuzanne Glover LindsayJanuary 8, 2021Suzanne Glover Lindsay
St. Stephen’s Feast Day: A Mandate for Generosity
St. Stephen’s Feast Day: A Mandate for Generosity

Surprising new thoughts about giving in cheerful form!

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Suzanne Glover LindsayDecember 26, 2020
Friday Reflection: Mapping the Landscape of Change, Part III
Friday Reflection: Mapping the Landscape of Change, Part III

Father Peter releases the last of his three reflections on change and the Episcopal Church.

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Friday ReflectionsPeter KountzDecember 18, 2020Peter Kountz
Friday Reflection: How does St. Stephen speak for us? Part II
Friday Reflection: How does St. Stephen speak for us? Part II

Join us to consider how this versatile saint represents us in crisis.

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Friday Reflections, St. Stephen's HistorySuzanne Glover LindsayDecember 11, 2020Suzanne Glover Lindsay
Friday Reflection: How does St. Stephen speak for us? Part I
Friday Reflection: How does St. Stephen speak for us? Part I

Join our historian Suzanne to consider how our Early-Church namesake represents us across time.

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Friday ReflectionsSuzanne Glover LindsayDecember 4, 2020Suzanne Glover Lindsay
Friday Reflection: Mapping the Landscape of Change, Part II
Friday Reflection: Mapping the Landscape of Change, Part II

Father Peter releases the second of three reflections on change and the Episcopal Church.

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Friday ReflectionsPeter KountzNovember 27, 2020Peter Kountz
Friday Reflection: On Seeking Peace
Friday Reflection: On Seeking Peace

Father Peter discusses John F. Kennedy’s “A Strategy of Peace” speech delivered at American University in June of 1963.

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Friday ReflectionsPeter KountzNovember 20, 2020Peter Kountz
Friday Reflection: The Power of Music: St. Cecilia
Friday Reflection: The Power of Music: St. Cecilia

Join our historian Suzanne as she explores St. Cecilia’s powerful musical role after the Middle Ages and today in Pandemic.

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Friday ReflectionsSuzanne Glover LindsayNovember 13, 2020Suzanne Glover Lindsay
Friday Reflection: Living with the Dead in 2020
Friday Reflection: Living with the Dead in 2020

Explore Suzanne Glover Lindsay’s thought-provoking history of the dead as part of “us”

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Friday ReflectionsSuzanne Glover LindsayNovember 6, 2020Suzanne Glover Lindsay, Open House
Friday Reflection: Mapping the Landscape of Change, Part I
Friday Reflection: Mapping the Landscape of Change, Part I

Father Peter discusses the “old normal versus the new normal.”

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Friday ReflectionsPeter KountzOctober 30, 2020Peter Kountz
Our Furness Burial Cloister wins a historic preservation award this year!
Our Furness Burial Cloister wins a historic preservation award this year!

We’re excited to announce that St. Stephen’s has won a Preservation Alliance Award for the Furness Burial Cloister!

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NewsSuzanne Glover LindsayOctober 25, 2020Furness Burial Cloister
St. Teresa de Avila, Part III: Teresa Creates a World and a Way to Pray
St. Teresa de Avila, Part III: Teresa Creates a World and a Way to Pray

Explore Teresa’s innovative new order and teaching that prayer is loving conversation with a friend.

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Friday ReflectionsSuzanne Glover LindsayOctober 23, 2020Suzanne Glover Lindsay
St. Teresa de Avila, Part II: Engaging with the Divine, the Devil, and the Carmelites
St. Teresa de Avila, Part II: Engaging with the Divine, the Devil, and the Carmelites

Follow Teresa’s struggles, discoveries, and celebrated mystical experiences in her 20 years at the Carmelite Monastery of the Incarnation, Ávila.

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Friday ReflectionsSuzanne Glover LindsayOctober 16, 2020Suzanne Glover Lindsay
St. Teresa de Avila, Part I: Engaging with the Divine, the Devil, and the Church
St. Teresa de Avila, Part I: Engaging with the Divine, the Devil, and the Church

Explore one of the most celebrated mystics of all time, whose encouraging words still touch today’s global community.

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Friday ReflectionsSuzanne Glover LindsayOctober 9, 2020Suzanne Glover Lindsay
A wonderful windfall: An intimate look at the ‘younger sister’ in England of St. Stephen’s mosaic
A wonderful windfall: An intimate look at the ‘younger sister’ in England of St. Stephen’s mosaic

As it turns out, our Last Supper Mosaic has a twin in the UK! Check out this video featuring the Salviati Last Supper Mosaic in St. Chad's Church, Kirkby.

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Suzanne Glover LindsayOctober 4, 2020
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