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Happy 202nd Birthday, St. Stephen's!!
Feb 27, 2025
Happy 202nd Birthday, St. Stephen's!!
Feb 27, 2025

Today, February 27, 2025 marks 202 years of prayer, art, and history at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. Stop by or explore our website to see how the church has evolved over these past 2 centuries!

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Feb 27, 2025
Friday Feature—Saying thanks to “our” brilliant young St. Stephen
Dec 27, 2024
Friday Feature—Saying thanks to “our” brilliant young St. Stephen
Dec 27, 2024

Consider, the day after the Church formally commemorates him, what this marginalized, gifted kid gave to a fractious community so eerily like our own.

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Dec 27, 2024
Friday Feature–Reading the “mysterious” Anna Magee
Dec 13, 2024
Friday Feature–Reading the “mysterious” Anna Magee
Dec 13, 2024

Join us in questioning narrow views of Anna Magee and her time.

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Dec 13, 2024
All Hallows Feature: Meet the Magees in Death
Nov 1, 2024
All Hallows Feature: Meet the Magees in Death
Nov 1, 2024

Explore how this intriguing family engages with us at their tomb.

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Nov 1, 2024
FRIDAY FEATURE—Finding UNITY in the sacred through . . .  electric light?
Sep 13, 2024
FRIDAY FEATURE—Finding UNITY in the sacred through . . . electric light?
Sep 13, 2024

Check out our third post in this series on the electric light at St. Stephen's.

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Sep 13, 2024
FRIDAY FEATURE: Seeking the sacred in . . . electric light?
Aug 9, 2024
FRIDAY FEATURE: Seeking the sacred in . . . electric light?
Aug 9, 2024

Check out the second post in Suzanne Glover Lindsay’s mini-series on the electric light at St. Stephen’s.

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Aug 9, 2024
FRIDAY FEATURE—Electricity, modernity and St. Stephen’s
Aug 2, 2024
FRIDAY FEATURE—Electricity, modernity and St. Stephen’s
Aug 2, 2024

Explore the “pioneering” electrical lighting at St. Stephen’s

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Aug 2, 2024
TUESDAY FLASH—Our cornerstone was laid 202 years ago today: Where is it???
May 28, 2024
TUESDAY FLASH—Our cornerstone was laid 202 years ago today: Where is it???
May 28, 2024

Today is a big day, missing the star of the show.

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May 28, 2024
Historical theatrics for the Post-Easter miracles
May 17, 2024
Historical theatrics for the Post-Easter miracles
May 17, 2024

A chronicle of in-church theatrics that are fun to imagine.

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May 17, 2024
Friday Feature--Experiencing the seismic shift after Easter through our windows
May 10, 2024
Friday Feature--Experiencing the seismic shift after Easter through our windows
May 10, 2024

Today St. Stephen’s historian and curator Suzanne Glover Lindsay welcomes the season with a look at our stained-glass windows.

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May 10, 2024
Friday Feature—Dr. Rudder: A precocious youth from ... South America’s Wild Coast?!
May 3, 2024
Friday Feature—Dr. Rudder: A precocious youth from ... South America’s Wild Coast?!
May 3, 2024

Suzanne Glover Lindsay explores some new surprises and new questions about St. Stephen’s last High-Church rector.

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May 3, 2024
A Virtual Site for Contemplation on Easter Sunday: Women at the Tomb, stained-glass window, 1903
Mar 31, 2024
A Virtual Site for Contemplation on Easter Sunday: Women at the Tomb, stained-glass window, 1903
Mar 31, 2024
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Mar 31, 2024
A Virtual Site for Good Friday Contemplation: St. Stephen’s mosaic Last Supper
Mar 29, 2024
A Virtual Site for Good Friday Contemplation: St. Stephen’s mosaic Last Supper
Mar 29, 2024
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Mar 29, 2024
Friday Feature —  New perspectives help us imagine Furness’s lost 1878 addition to St. Stephen’s
Mar 22, 2024
Friday Feature — New perspectives help us imagine Furness’s lost 1878 addition to St. Stephen’s
Mar 22, 2024

Exploring Furness’s 1878 alterations to St. Stephen’s over the last weeks has brought intriguing finds from new perspectives. And yes, more questions . . . 

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Mar 22, 2024
Friday Feature- A clearer history of Furness’s 1878 remodeling emerges from our archives
Mar 1, 2024
Friday Feature- A clearer history of Furness’s 1878 remodeling emerges from our archives
Mar 1, 2024

I’m constantly amazed at how new questions and information make us see the familiar differently.

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Mar 1, 2024
Happy 201st Birthday St. Stephen's!
Feb 27, 2024
Happy 201st Birthday St. Stephen's!
Feb 27, 2024
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Feb 27, 2024
How does the “new” Furness Rudder memorial adapt an ancient Christian symbol?
Jan 19, 2024
How does the “new” Furness Rudder memorial adapt an ancient Christian symbol?
Jan 19, 2024

Explore new thoughts about the memorial’s relationship to a famous Christian art form.

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Jan 19, 2024
Friday Feature: A newly identified Furness design at St. Stephen’s!
Jan 12, 2024
Friday Feature: A newly identified Furness design at St. Stephen’s!
Jan 12, 2024

Explore a door on Furness and St. Stephen’s opened by a friend on New Year’s. 

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Jan 12, 2024
In the steps of St. Stephen.... at St. Stephen’s today
Dec 26, 2023
In the steps of St. Stephen.... at St. Stephen’s today
Dec 26, 2023

Today, as the Church celebrates St. Stephen on his Feast Day, we look to his example in our continued outreach efforts. Stay tuned!

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Dec 26, 2023
 Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: A Hidden Church Unveiled
Dec 1, 2023
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: A Hidden Church Unveiled
Dec 1, 2023

Explore a stunning lost decor through a loosened cover.

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Dec 1, 2023
Introduction--Advent 2023: Advent as a Journey of Waiting
Nov 30, 2023
Introduction--Advent 2023: Advent as a Journey of Waiting
Nov 30, 2023

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

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Nov 30, 2023
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: Love Hurts
Nov 17, 2023
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: Love Hurts
Nov 17, 2023

Explore how our graceful baptismal font conveys an edgy message.

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Nov 17, 2023
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: Meditations on a Severed Toe
Nov 10, 2023
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: Meditations on a Severed Toe
Nov 10, 2023

Explore the radical changes witnessed by a newly damaged sculpture.

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Nov 10, 2023
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: Why Do We Embrace Our Dead?
Nov 3, 2023
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: Why Do We Embrace Our Dead?
Nov 3, 2023

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

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Nov 3, 2023
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: The Power of Soft
Oct 27, 2023
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: The Power of Soft
Oct 27, 2023

 Ponder the power of subtle gesture with our historian Suzanne.

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Oct 27, 2023
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: Worlds Within Our Floor Registers
Oct 20, 2023
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: Worlds Within Our Floor Registers
Oct 20, 2023

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

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Oct 20, 2023
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: Life Within Our Stone
Oct 13, 2023
Friday Anniversary Perspectives Opened Up Close: Life Within Our Stone
Oct 13, 2023

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

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Oct 13, 2023
Fall Anniversary Perspectives: An Introduction
Oct 6, 2023
Fall Anniversary Perspectives: An Introduction
Oct 6, 2023

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

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Oct 6, 2023
New Friday Anniversary Thoughts—Finding Humanity amidst Violence
Jun 16, 2023
New Friday Anniversary Thoughts—Finding Humanity amidst Violence
Jun 16, 2023

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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Jun 16, 2023
New Friday Anniversary Thoughts— PART III of Communing in Performed Sound at St. Stephen’s
Jun 2, 2023
New Friday Anniversary Thoughts— PART III of Communing in Performed Sound at St. Stephen’s
Jun 2, 2023

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

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Jun 2, 2023

 

 
 

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19 South 10th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107

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