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  • 11/1/20, Holding on to Hope: A National Service for Healing and Wholeness

    Please join us and many throughout the nation in prayer on line in a service of healing. “Presiding Bishop Michael Curry will lead a live-streamed prayer service from Washington National Cathedral, Holding on to Hope: A National Service for Healing and Wholeness, on All Saints Sunday, November 1, at 4:00-5:30 p.m. EST.” Join the Episcopal Church live on …

  • Sermon for 10/18/20: Caesar’s Coin: But what is the real question?

      20 Pentecost Psalm 99; Exodus 33:12 – 23; I Thessalonians 1:1 – 10; Matthew 22:1 – 14 The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, the world and those who dwell therein. Ps.24:1   I. The Question. What motivates us to pose the question? At some point in our lives, the question “who …

  • An Open Letter from Rev. Clarence, 10/17/20

    Dear Parishioners and Friends of St. James!   With concern, I included in my weekly update last week a letter from our Bishop diocesan, Bishop Alan Gates. I write this week with joy to report that our Bishop, being attended by an excellent medical staff and your prayers, has returned full-time to his ministry. Indeed, …

  • Sermon for 10/11/20: Tools for Connecting the Dots

      19 Pentecost Ps. 106:1 – 6, 19 – 23; Exodus 32:1 – 14; Philippians 4:1 – 9; Matthew 22:1 – 14 Finally, beloved, whatever is true…honorable…pure…pleasing…commendable, if there is any excellence, anything worthy of praise, think about these things…and the God of peace will be with you.  Philippians 4:8 -9 “Transparency,” “fact-checking,” “connect the …