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Introduction--Advent 2023: Advent as a Journey of Waiting
Introduction--Advent 2023: Advent as a Journey of Waiting

Advent is here! St. Stephen’s welcomes the 2023 Advent season with a new series of reflections inspired by AdventWord.

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Suzanne Glover LindsayNovember 30, 2023
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: Love Hurts
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: Love Hurts

Explore how our graceful baptismal font conveys an edgy message.

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Suzanne Glover LindsayNovember 17, 2023
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: Meditations on a Severed Toe
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: Meditations on a Severed Toe

Explore the radical changes witnessed by a newly damaged sculpture.

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Suzanne Glover LindsayNovember 10, 2023
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: Why Do We Embrace Our Dead?
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: Why Do We Embrace Our Dead?

Join our historian Suzanne as she considers visitors’ concerns about the Furness Burial Cloister.

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Suzanne Glover LindsayNovember 3, 2023
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: The Power of Soft
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: The Power of Soft

 Ponder the power of subtle gesture with our historian Suzanne.

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Suzanne Glover LindsayOctober 27, 2023
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: Worlds Within Our Floor Registers
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: Worlds Within Our Floor Registers

Explore how visitors changed our historian Suzanne’s approach to these unsung floor pieces 

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Suzanne Glover LindsayOctober 20, 2023
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: Life Within Our Stone
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: Life Within Our Stone

Our historian Suzanne explores what St. Stephen’s “face” reveals up close

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Suzanne Glover LindsayOctober 13, 2023
Fall Anniversary Perspectives: An Introduction
Fall Anniversary Perspectives: An Introduction

St. Stephen’s historian and curator Suzanne Glover Lindsay introduces a new blog series for this season.

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Suzanne Glover LindsayOctober 6, 2023
New Friday Anniversary Thoughts—Finding Humanity amidst Violence
New Friday Anniversary Thoughts—Finding Humanity amidst Violence

Explore, in this final post for the season, an uncovered heroic act of 1844 that offers hope for today’s hostilities

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Suzanne Glover LindsayJune 16, 2023
New Friday Anniversary Thoughts— PART III of Communing in Performed Sound at St. Stephen’s
New Friday Anniversary Thoughts— PART III of Communing in Performed Sound at St. Stephen’s

Explore what occurred when exceptional jazz pianists made music at St. Stephen’s

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Suzanne Glover LindsayJune 2, 2023
New Friday Anniversary Thoughts— PART II of Communing in Performed Sound at St. Stephen’s
New Friday Anniversary Thoughts— PART II of Communing in Performed Sound at St. Stephen’s

Explore with me some discoveries with jazz at St. Stephen’s 

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Suzanne Glover LindsayMay 26, 2023
Special Seasonal Feature—Wondrous Witness!
Special Seasonal Feature—Wondrous Witness!

Witness through St. Stephen’s art spectacular miracles that created the Church.

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Suzanne Glover LindsayMay 12, 2023
New Friday Anniversary Thoughts—Communing in Performed Sound at St. Stephen’s Part I
New Friday Anniversary Thoughts—Communing in Performed Sound at St. Stephen’s Part I

Explore transformative connections in sound and space.

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Suzanne Glover LindsayApril 28, 2023
EASTER FEATURE: The Shock of an Unthinkable Promise Fulfilled
EASTER FEATURE: The Shock of an Unthinkable Promise Fulfilled

An unsung window at St. Stephen’s illuminates a powerful story about the Resurrection.

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Suzanne Glover LindsayApril 9, 2023
GOOD FRIDAY Special Feature: Contemplating the Last Supper
GOOD FRIDAY Special Feature: Contemplating the Last Supper

A compelling mural takes center stage for Holy Week.

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Suzanne Glover LindsayApril 7, 2023
New Friday Anniversary Thoughts—Communities Converge for a Forgotten Musical Luminary
New Friday Anniversary Thoughts—Communities Converge for a Forgotten Musical Luminary

New relationships form to resurrect a once-illustrious blind musician, David D. Wood.

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Suzanne Glover LindsayMarch 24, 2023
Foreword: New Friday Anniversary Thoughts
Foreword: New Friday Anniversary Thoughts

Our historian Suzanne explores how St. Stephen’s engages with worlds beyond.

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Suzanne Glover LindsayMarch 17, 2023
Life as a Downtown Church, 1823-2023
Life as a Downtown Church, 1823-2023

Let’s take a look back at 200 years as a downtown church.

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St. Stephen's StaffMarch 12, 2023
Communing through "Speech"
Communing through "Speech"

This week we celebrate the many ways we speak and listen to one other face to face: through our voices, pantomime, and signs.

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Suzanne Glover LindsayMarch 3, 2023
Happy 200th Anniversary St. Stephen's!
Happy 200th Anniversary St. Stephen's!

Today we celebrate St. Stephen’s 200th anniversary!

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Rebecca HarrisFebruary 27, 2023
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