In Part One of his reflection on Reverend Alexander Crummell, Father Peter explores the first 38 years of this celebrated figure’s life and work.
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Explore the path of an unlikely threesome who became venerated around the globe.
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For this week’s Friday Reflection, Father Peter commemorates Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux.
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Explore the challenges and redefinitions of St. Stephen’s, over turbulent decades, that have led to stunning experiments—and building life with and after Covid-19
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Explore St. Stephen’s living sense of Place as it absorbed often seismic change to embrace community in new ways
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For this week’s Friday Reflection, Father Peter commemorates W.E.B. Du Bois and Alexander Crummell.
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Learn about the formidable English “shrimp” whose titanic work to abolish slavery opened a path for civil and human rights around the world.
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Today’s Friday Reflection commemorates the “Three Jameses:” James the Apostle, James the Less, and James the Just.
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Explore rector Samuel D. McConnell’s transformative inner journey; does any of it sound familiar?
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Today’s Friday Reflection explores Benedict of Nursia, who is commemorated on July II. He is well-known for writing the Rule of Saint Benedict and is widely considered the Father of Western Monasticism.
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Meet this extraordinary activist poet who lived JUST DOWN THE STREET at 1006 Bainbridge.
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“To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.” —Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Enter the unexplored creative life of a world-renowned (and controversial) physician and literary figure of the Gilded Age.
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In this week’s Friday Reflection, Father Peter discusses James Weldon Johnson and Black Lives Matter.
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Imagine a meeting between Adelaide Teague Case (d. 1948) and Eliza Howard Sims Burd (d. 1860). This week’s 2-part Friday Reflection offers portraits of these two significant figures in the Episcopal Church. In Part II, Suzanne Glover Lindsay explores Eliza Howard Sims Burd, a founding member of St. Stephen’s and an early proponent of religious education for children.
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This week’s 2-part Friday Reflection offers portraits of two significant figures in the Episcopal Church: Adelaide Teague Case, the first woman appointed to the faculty of an Episcopal or Anglican seminary, and Eliza Howard Sims Burd, a founding member of St. Stephen’s. In Part I, Father Peter explores the life and career of Adelaide Teague Case.
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Meet The Rev. Dr. Alfred Price, towering figure of 20th c. Spiritual Healing, forgotten friend of MLK’s mentor, and outspoken critic of racism.
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In this week’s Friday Reflection, Father Peter discusses Columba, Abbot of Iona, a key figure in the history of the church.
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In this week’s Friday Reflection, Father Peter reflects on Saint Pope John XXIII in the context of the events of this week and the current situation in Washington. He echoes faith leaders everywhere in his objections and disapproval of this country’s leadership.
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Join us at Jeanne d’Arc’s celebrated equestrian on the Parkway to consider her complex power.
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