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SUMMARY:Global Refugee Issues Forum with Alice Farmer
DESCRIPTION:Alice Farmer is a Policy Fellow this year at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences. She has been a refugee lawyer for 20 years\, with Human Rights Watch and the UN\, in emergency settings from Ukraine to Liberia to the US southern border. She’s working on a book about climate change and displacement\, and how we can create welcoming spaces for people in need.
URL:https://saint-marks.com/event/global-refugee-issues-forum-with-alice-farmer/
LOCATION:Kennedy Room – St. Marks\, 600 Colorado Ave\, Palo Alto\, California\, 94306
CATEGORIES:Featured,Forum & Speakers
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SUMMARY:Guest Preacher & Forum
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to welcome The Rev. Canon Eric Metoyer\, Canon for Social Justice in the Diocese of California\, as well as Mr. De’Amon Harges as our guest preacher on Sunday\, May 4. \n  \nOur BBC Task Force will host a forum featuring Canon Metoyer and Mr. Harges following the 10:00 a.m. service.
URL:https://saint-marks.com/event/guest-preacher-forum/
LOCATION:Kennedy Room – St. Marks\, 600 Colorado Ave\, Palo Alto\, California\, 94306
CATEGORIES:Featured,Forum & Speakers
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SUMMARY:Rapid Response Training for ICE Actions
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for Rapid Response Training for ICE Actions in Santa Clara and San Mateo counties. \n  \nJesus Ruiz from Pangea Legal Services and Lorena Melgarejo from Faith in Action Bay Area will provide Know Your Rights materials and training for rapid response to ICE actions in both counties.  You will learn how to be an observer\, a reporter\, a rumor verifier or truth teller. This training will help our immigrant neighbors access justice and services that are available to detainees and family members\, will reduce fear and increase our collective sense of community. \n  \nThe event is free\, but registration is required. Please register here: https://bit.ly/4hO5wB5
URL:https://saint-marks.com/event/23613/
LOCATION:Parish Hall\, 600 Colorado Ave\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94306\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured,Forum & Speakers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T190000
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SUMMARY:Religion\, Race\, and the “Heathen”
DESCRIPTION:The fourth event in the speaker series\, Community\, Faith\, and Racial Justice. This series on racial injustice in America explores the role of Christianity\, including the current white Christian Nationalist movement\, in racial injustice and seeks to define a path toward justice\, healing and reconciliation. \n  \nProfessor Kathryn Gin Lum will speak on her recent book\, Heathen: Religion and Race in American History. \n  \n \n  \nKathryn Gin Lum is Professor in the Religious Studies Department\, in collaboration with the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity\, at Stanford University. Her teaching and research focus on the lived ramifications of religious beliefs; she specializes in the history of religion and race in America. \n  \nShe will speak on themes in her most recent book\, Heathen: Religion and Race in American History\, which looks at how the figure of the “heathen” in need of salvation underlies American conceptions of race.  Books will be available for purchase and signing at the event. \n  \nThis event is free. Please register here for tickets. \n  \nAccessibility: St. Mark’s is wheelchair accessible; closed captioning will be available.\nParking: Ample parking behind the church.\nQuestions: Please email beloved_community@saint-marks.com \nPresenting Sponsor: Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church – Palo Alto \nCo-Sponsors: American Muslim Voice Foundation • First Congregational Church of Palo Alto UCC • First Presbyterian Church\, Palo Alto • Multifaith Voices for Peace and Justice • Peninsula Solidarity Cohort • Saint Andrew’s Episcopal Church\, Saratoga • Saint Jude’s Episcopal Church\, Cupertino • Saint Paul’s Episcopal Church\, Burlingame • Saint Peter’s Episcopal Church\, Redwood City • Saint Thomas Episcopal Church\, Sunnyvale • Saint Timothy’s Episcopal Church\, Mountain View • Showing Up for Racial Justice Santa Clara County • Stanford Canterbury • Trinity Episcopal Cathedral\, San Jose • Trinity Episcopal Church\, Menlo Park • Unitarian Universalist Church of Palo Alto • University Lutheran Church at Stanford
URL:https://saint-marks.com/event/religion-race-and-the-heathen/
LOCATION:Parish Hall\, 600 Colorado Ave\, Palo Alto\, CA\, 94306\, United States
CATEGORIES:Featured,Forum & Speakers
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SUMMARY:Becoming Beloved Community Forum
DESCRIPTION:In an era where our baptismal covenant to “respect the dignity of every human being” may be challenged in difficult ways\, the BBC Task Force will host a forum on Dec. 8 to discuss how we are feeling post-election and our commitment to Becoming a Beloved Community. \nIn addition to sharing our own thoughts\, three speakers will very briefly address issues we might expect to arise in the coming months and potential actions that we might take to help others in our communities: \nProfessor Margalynne Armstrong on constitutional and legal issues \nKatie Fantin of Abode Services on homelessness \nDiane Guinta on how SURJ (Showing Up for Racial Justice) brings about political change at the local level. \nA list of spiritual and practical resources will be provided.
URL:https://saint-marks.com/event/becoming-beloved-community-forum/
LOCATION:Kennedy Room – St. Marks\, 600 Colorado Ave\, Palo Alto\, California\, 94306
CATEGORIES:Forum & Speakers
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SUMMARY:Guest Forum & Sermon With Dr. Travis Stevens
DESCRIPTION:Our Episcopal Chaplain to Stanford\, Dr. Travis Stevens\, will visit St. Mark’s November 10. Travis will preach and lead a forum as we celebrate the mutual ministry St. Mark’s supports for the Progressive Christians at Stanford\, Episcopal Lutheran Campus Ministry. Travis also serves as Vocations Director for the Diocese and in that role supports Debie Thomas\, who St. Mark’s is sponsoring for ordination in the Diocese of California. \n  \nOriginally from Texas\, Travis moved to California to attend the University of Southern California\, where he studied music and French. It was at USC where he first participated in campus ministry and found other Christians interested in queer inclusion. “My church community’s radical welcome made me realize how critical the study of theology could be\,” Travis says. \n  \nTravis moved to Massachusetts to attend Harvard Divinity School\, where he earned an MDiv and went on to receive his doctorate in the history of Christianity\, specializing in mystical theologies of suffering and love. Travis moved to the Bay Area in 2009 to be with his partner\, Kerry\, and worshiped at Holy Innocents in San Francisco before serving as a cantor and section leader at St Luke’s. \n  \nTravis has held teaching positions at Santa Clara University\, Seton Hall University\, and Pacific School of Religion. He also has experience in the diocese in guiding others discerning a call to ordained ministry; he served on the Commission on Ministry\, the Board of Examining Chaplains\, the board of the School for Deacons\, and as a consultant on diaconal formation. Travis is thrilled to be able to accompany others in practices of spiritual discernment\, both as the vocations officer and as a university chaplain.
URL:https://saint-marks.com/event/guest-forum-sermon-with-dr-travis-stevens/
LOCATION:Kennedy Room – St. Marks\, 600 Colorado Ave\, Palo Alto\, California\, 94306
CATEGORIES:Forum & Speakers
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SUMMARY:summer sunday forum june 30 – include me! with rev. nancy
DESCRIPTION:A little history\, a lot of exploration together – for all ages! – of our diversity as Episcopalians\, and as St. Markans. God loves us all the same\, but we don’t have to be all the same. It’s a lesson we keep learning as Christians. It’s going to be fun to see where we are alike\, and where we’re different\, and why that makes the Body of Christ so beautiful. Join Rev. Nancy on June 30 after the 10 a.m. service for a forum to explore the best part of being community: each other!
URL:https://saint-marks.com/event/summer-sunday-forum-june-30-include-me-with-rev-nancy/
CATEGORIES:Featured,Forum & Speakers
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240616T110000
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SUMMARY:juneteenth all ages hymn sing
DESCRIPTION:Join Matthew Burt\, Rev. Nancy Ross\, and Rev. Nick Roosevelt for an All Ages Hymn Sing in recognition of Juneteenth on Sunday\, June 16 following the 10:00 AM service. We’ll sing and learn about songs of faith from the Spiritual and Gospel Traditions as they connect us to the message of freedom and justice Juneteenth still represent to our country today. This will be intergenerational with song\, dance\, movement\, and rhythm\, none of which you have to be an expert in or know in advance.
URL:https://saint-marks.com/event/juneteenth-all-ages-hymn-sing/
CATEGORIES:Featured,Forum & Speakers
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SUMMARY:Music Forum for All Ages
DESCRIPTION:Join us after the 10:00 a.m. service on Sunday\, June 9 for a music forum exploring ways of singing and playing instruments without reading music or words! We will explore rounds\, call-and-response\, layered pieces\, and improvisation as ways to (literally!) take music away from the page and into our hearts and minds and voices. All ages are welcome.
URL:https://saint-marks.com/event/music-forum-for-all-ages/
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