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Reckoning with Racism in February: Week 2

For Week 2, we’re directing your attention to the Oregon Black Pioneers website and, specifically, to their History Maps tool. Please take some time to explore History Maps, following your interests and curiosity wherever they take you. You’ll be glad you did! Because of our work on the St. Michael’s land story, we clicked on the map point closest to St. Michael’s and followed the thread as far as we could (within reason) not knowing what more we might learn about our neighbors and neighborhood history.

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February 13, 2025

Souper Bowl of Caring: Update

Thanks to all the kids who made the Souper Bowl of Caring announcement on February 2nd – you were terrific! So far, we’ve raised over $1,700 for the Northeast Emergency Food Program.

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February 6, 2025

Reckoning with Racism Team in February

Your Reckoning with Racism team will be including brief notes in each weekly newsletter this month to highlight Black History. We begin with an opportunity to learn, explore, and follow your curiosity wherever it may take you. The theme for 2025 is “African Americans and Labor,” focusing on the various and profound ways that work and working of all kinds–free and unfree–has shaped history from 1619 to the present.

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February 6, 2025

Music for Sunday, February 9

It’s Black History Month, and one way we are honoring and celebrating the achievements of the African diaspora is through our music choices. This Sunday, February 9, at 9:00 am, the St. Michael’s Singers will offer an arrangement of the African-American spiritual “Children, Go Where I Send Thee” by Dr. André J. Thomas.

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February 6, 2025

Many & One, In the Spirit / Muchos y Uno, en el Espíritu

As I spoke on briefly in my sermon this morning, the First Epistle to the church in Corinth was written to a fledgling Christian community, struggling to come to into its own identity with core theological understandings, values, organizing principles, and commitments—and situated within the context of a secular society based on extreme hierarchy exercise of power to maintain order.

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January 30, 2025

2025 Annual Meeting

All St. Michael’s members are encouraged to attend our 2025 Annual Meeting at 12:15 pm in the nave on Sunday, January 26. The meeting will include approving the 2024 Annual Meeting minutes and the 2024 Annual Report.

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January 25, 2025

Evensong for Candlemas

The St. Michael’s Singers will present a Choral Evensong for Candlemas (also known as the Presentation of Christ or the Purification) on Sunday, February 2, at 5:00 pm.

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January 25, 2025

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