Archive for the 'Congregants Speaking' Category
June 24th, 2011
Kathleen Reeves, a congregant at St. Lydia’s, recently graduated from the Draper Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Humanities and Social Thought at NYU. On May 15, Kathleen shared this excerpt from her MA thesis, “‘Perishable but Never Ending’: Materiality and Mystery in Early DeLillo,” which traces the vivid presence of the human body in DeLillo’s early novels, […]
April 19th, 2011
Paul, a congregant, song leader, and deacon at St. Lydia’s, sent us this selection from Blake Layerle’s contribution to the book, Educating People of Faith; Exploring the History of Jewish and Christian Communities about eating food and eating scripture in Church “This language “command of Scripture,” however, needs further modulation, again based upon the analogy […]
December 14th, 2010
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a little on the blog entry about a small seasonal-giving campaign that I volunteered us Lydians for. On the Sunday that followed, there was an outpouring from our community and we raised a pretty penny, getting us well on our way to our $70 goal. St. Lydia’s finds […]
December 6th, 2010
Denise is a congregant at St. Lydia’s. She can be reached at denisenyc2010@gmail.com I suppose there are lots of things at St. Lydia’s (or any church) that people could find scary. Some congregants probably get a little nervous about having to make conversation with strangers during an entire meal, or singing without a loud organ […]
December 1st, 2010
When I was growing up, my church always “adopted families” for Christmas. Through the local food bank, we banded together to provide food and children’s gifts for a bunch of local families that needed a little extra help. Now that Lydia’s is in its second year, I’d like for us to begin observing a similar […]
November 4th, 2010
Jeremy Sierra is a MFA student and lives in New York. A congregant at St. Lydia’s, he blogs here under the category Jeremiah Speaking. A guy, white with dreadlocks and funky shoes, came to the church where I work. “Peace be upon you,” he said “Um, hi,” I responded. “Whey do you have Jack-O-Lanterns in […]
October 22nd, 2010
Jeremy Sierra is a MFA student and lives in New York. A congregant at St. Lydia’s, he blogs here under the category Jeremiah Speaking. Recently, I have been having something of a denominational crisis. My father is an Episcopal priest. I own at least five versions of the Book of Common Prayer, and I took […]
September 3rd, 2010
The other day we were sitting up in Pastor Phil’s office drinking Three Buck Chuck from little plastic cups and outside it was rainy and cool and summer was slowly slipping away. I am beginning to get sick of summer, the whir of window units and the sticky subway stations. Now, although the heat has […]
