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Choral Evensong, May 2nd

We are delighted to return to services that include a limited congregation. Please sign up below to join us in person, or watch the livestream at the link provided. Sunday May 2 at 5:00pm Sung by the Staff Schola of St. Paul’s Church Music Director – Andrew Kotylo Organ Scholar – Emily Dawn Amos Officiant […]

Yellow Fever Reading List

From Arthur Sudler: additional resources for learning about Bl. Absalom Jones, the Episcopal church, and Yellow Fever in Philadelphia. View his Adult Education Forum talk here. Primary Sources   Carey, Matthew. A Short Account of the Malignant Fever, Lately Prevalent in Philadelphia. 1794, reprint New York: Arno Press, 1970.   Deveze, Jean. An enquiry into, and observations […]

Earth Day 2021 – sowing in the garden

Last Sunday, I invited members of St. Paul’s to bring plants and flowers to beautify the rectory garden. We have several empty pots and flower beds waiting for your gift to the earth and to the next rector! Like many of you, I have been enjoying the sunny spell to clean up the yard, till […]

Making room for the outsider

We all watched the global economy slump when one ship got stuck in the Suez Canal last week. The canal carries 10% of all global goods. The Ever Given, as long as the Empire State building and carrying tons of freight in metal containers, got stuck sideways, causing an estimated billion-dollar loss. Reverberations across the […]

Second Interviews Almost Done

Your Rector Search Committee is moving right along!  We only have a couple more second interviews to do, and the hard part will be narrowing the field of candidates to three finalists, because they’re all so good – seriously good people for St. Paul’s, that is.  We’ll invite the three finalists to visit us here, […]