[ February 2, 2012; 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. February 9, 2012; 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. February 16, 2012; 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. February 23, 2012; 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm. ]

Join us tonight, Thursday, Feb. 2, for part one of “Why wall street can’t be fixed and how to replace it,” a workshop series sponsored by The Oak Tree. The Oak Tree is a collaborative ministry involving Holy Trinity, Salem Lutheran, and St. Paul’s Methodist.

We are meeting at 5:30pm at Salem Lutheran’s Fireside room (1428 [...]

In the midst of this strangely warm epiphany season, we’ve had some days of incredible light. I’m used to the kind of Spokane winters that make me fear if I don’t see a sliver of sky soon, I will come undone. Not this year. And yet . . .
And yet.
My heart cries out not from [...]

[ January 24, 2012; 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm. ] Our discussion of Take the Bread, by Sara Miles, continues on Tuesdays beginning January 24 @ 12:30pm.It’s never to late to join in.Can’t make it in person? Follow along and chime in on our book group blog.Raised as an atheist, Sara Miles lived an enthusiastically secular life as a restaurant cook and writer. Then early one [...]

[ January 21, 2012; 8:45 am to 3:00 pm. ] “Render unto Caesar: Reclaiming Our Prophetic Voice” is the theme of the 2012 Eastern Washington Legislative Conference scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 21 from 8:45am to 3pm at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist, 12th and Grand.

Our bishop, The Rt. Rev. James E. Waggoner, Jr., and our deacon and urban missioner, The Rev. Kris Christensen, [...]

2012 point in time count: volunteers needed at ht dinner table 
HT Dinner Table will participate in the 2012 Point in Time Count which provides crucial data regarding homelessness in our community. Extra volunteers are needed for Wednesday, February 1, to help with the count.
Volunteers will need to:

attend one of two 1 1/2 hour training sessions [...]

I’ve added a new piece to my morning prayer routine, one suggested by my long-time friend and spiritual advisor, Susan. After returning from Kenya where she was single-minded in her goals for the mission trip, the tide of life American-style threatened to lift her off her feet. She offered me her solution. With so many [...]

Yesterday I started up again–praying, that is. Not to worry. God and I are on speaking terms, have been for a long time now. But for a few weeks around the clergy-killing run-up to Christmas which coincided this year with the most horrendous cold I’ve had in a decade, I let regular morning devotions slip.
What [...]