Getting back together again! All youngish adults (20s-40s) are invited to join us for a social hour at Brambly Park located in Scott’s Addition. We’ll be there for snacks, beverages, and to hang out with one another. We will meet in the park area (outdoors), pending weather. Swing by anytime between 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. to hang out and connect. Please e-mail the Rev. Keli Shipley Cooper by Wednesday, April 27th if you plan to attend.

Join facilitators Dr. Christine Luckritz Marquis and Dr. David Coogan on Wednesday, May 11th at 7:00 pm on Zoom for an engaging conversation with Jamie Manson about reproductive rights.

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OUR CONVERSATION PARTNER: Jamie Manson, President of Catholics for Choice

Jamie Manson is President of Catholics for Choice. For over fifteen years she has been a thought leader and advocate in the field of women’s equality and reproductive rights in the Catholic Church and the public square. For 12 years, she was a columnist at the National Catholic Reporter where she was one of the few openly LGBTQ journalists in the Catholic media in the world. She was an often-solitary voice for reproductive freedom and justice and was one of the first to sound the alarm about the right-wing push for religious freedom.

Jamie’s expertise in Catholicism and sexual ethics was first formed during her studies at Yale with her mentor, Margaret Farley. She edited and wrote the introduction to Changing the Questions: Explorations in Christian Ethics, a collection of writings by Margaret Farley (Orbis Books, 2015). Jamie has published op-eds in the New York Times, NBC Think, Ms. Magazine, and Rewire and has been featured in dozens of media outlets, including Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, NPR, the LA Times, and CNN. She is the recipient of the Sr. Theresa Kane Woman of Vision and Courage Award.

Please join us for our third service of Choral Evensong for the season. Evensong is part of the Daily Office, along with Morning Prayer. The Daily Office is derived from the regular services of monastic communities in the early Church. The Choir will be joined by guest organist, Dr. David Kelley from the Church of the Holy Comforter in Vienna, VA. The choir will be presenting the following works: Preces & Responses – Martin Neary, Evening Canticles in E Minor – Leo Sowerby, and The Altar – Roland E. Martin. All are welcome! In-person and live-streamed.

CHORAL EVENSONG | April 3 @ 5:00 p.m. | Service Leaflet

May’s Book Club read is Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brene Brown.

If we want to find the way back to ourselves and one another, we need language and the grounded confidence to both tell our stories and to be stewards of the stories that we hear. In Atlas of the Heart, we explore eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human and walk through a new framework for cultivating meaningful connection. This is for the mapmakers and travelers in all of us.

Facilitated by the Rev. Keli Shipley Cooper.

If you are interested in joining us please REGISTER HERE. A zoom link will be provided upon filling out this form.

April’s Book Club read is If God is Love, Don’t Be a Jerk: Finding a Faith that Makes Us Better Humans by John Pavlovitz.

In If God Is Love, Don’t Be a Jerk, John Pavlovitz examines the bedrock ideas of our religion: the existence of hell, the utility of prayer, the way we treat LGBTQ people, the value of anger, and other doctrines to help all of us take a good, honest look at how the beliefs we hold can shape our relationships with God and our fellow humans—and to make sure that love has the last, loudest word.

Emma Breeden will be facilitating.

If you are interested in joining us please REGISTER HERE. A zoom link will be provided upon filling out this form.

Sunday, March 20th at 7:00 p.m. on Zoom – We are changing things up with a different day of the week to make sure we could find a time to welcome Rabbi Michael Rose Knopf. Join facilitators Dr. Christine Luckritz Marquis and Dr. David Coogan for a timely and very important conversation with Rabbi Knopf on Faith, Culture and Anti-Semitism.

Named by The Forward as one of “America’s Most Inspiring Rabbis,” Rabbi Michael Rose Knopf is the spiritual leader of Temple Beth-El in Richmond, Virginia. He is a leading advocate for multifaith collaboration, an activist for social justice and global human rights, the host of JCast Network’s PopTorah podcast, the author of Thirty Days of Liberation: Pathways for Personal and Social Transformation Inspired by the Book of Exodus, and editor of No Time for Neutrality: American Rabbinic Voices From an Era of Upheaval.

Registration required. CLICK HERE to Register.

The Stories We Tell | This Wednesday we welcome author, Sadeqa Johnson, who will kick off the first of three talks she will share with us.

Author of the highly acclaimed Yellow Wife and a National Book Club Conference Award Winner, Sadeqa Johnson is the international best-selling and award-winning author of four novels. Johnson’s moving book resonates with audiences as we still grapple with issues of race today. She also teaches fiction writing for the MFA program at Drexel University. Originally from Philadelphia, she currently lives near Richmond, Virginia with her husband and three children.

Join us this Wednesday, March 9 from 12 -12:45 p.m. More details about our speaker series: www.stpaulsrva.org/lent2022.

LENTEN SPEAKER SERIES – SADEQA JOHNSON | Wednesday, March 9th at 12:00 p.m.
This video will only be available live – there will not be a recording available for later viewing.