Newsletter for July 11

Please join us for worship Sunday, July 11, at 11 a.m. via Zoom.
 
In this week's newsletter, the rector shares a prayer poem by Barbara Deming for our spiritual practice "as we ponder heatwaves and hurricanes, habitat destruction and hatred, as we seek to love and care for each other and the more than human world."
 
(The image shown above is “Salome with the Head of the Baptist,” 1761, by Mariano Salvador Maella. It, like many other works of art and literature, was inspired by this week's Gospel lesson.)

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“Salome with the Head of the Baptist,” 1761, by Mariano Salvador Maella

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