Invitation to Wednesday Night Program: Five Lenses for Reading Scripture
Sometimes reading the Bible can feel like standing on the outside of a bustling city with a great big wall. We know that there is a world of activity inside
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Mt. LeConte: A Spiritual Experience
Our group of 10 Mt. LeConte hikers departed Columbia on July 15, after church. Our first night was spent at Lake Summit, NC, where Cope Fralick’s parents, Johnny and Tracy
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Members of Each Other: On Hannah Coulter, our Summer Reading
Reading Wendell Berry’s short novel Hannah Coulter has been a balm this summer, for me and for many participating in our Sunday morning book conversation. The book is narrated by Hannah as
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St. John’s Servant Ministry Budget
Each year our church contributes money to a number of agencies that feed the hungry, assist those in financial crisis, address homelessness, and care for the elderly, what we call
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On Pentecost & Tongues
The image that looms large in our minds of Pentecost is likely a chaotic one—people standing up, blades of fire on their foreheads, speaking in unintelligible kinds of sounds, so
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Our Seniors: A Blog for Youth Sunday
On Sunday, May 12 we will be celebrating our 16 graduating seniors from St. John’s. This is a bittersweet day for our church family. We are proud to be sending
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What Happens at Holy Week Services?
St. John’s keeps up the ancient tradition of an intense week of prayer and worship in the days leading up to Easter, the feast of Christ’s Resurrection. Our services are
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Lenten Reflection 2: The Light of the World
I have discovered that sometimes the best way for me to understand what I am reading in the Bible is to try get a better understanding of when the passage
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Lenten Reflection 1: today if you would hear his voice
Hebrews 3:12-4:1 Lingering behind this strange passage in Hebrews are several layered references to the Exodus from a Psalm. Just before verse 12 where we pick up the language of
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On Lenten Disciplines
Why do we put some things away during Lent? Why do we give things up? What counts? There’s an old term that an early generation of monks were fond of:
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