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MUSIC
Music Overview
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Young Organist Collaborative
Instruments
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Care Overview
Reach In
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Common Table
LEARN
Learn Overview
2025-26 Program Year
Voices of Faith Guest Preaching Series
Youth Formation
Adult Formation
GIVE
Give Overview
Community Support
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Bequest
Donate Online
ABOUT
Know St. John's
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January 20, 2026
Daily Reflection, Chapel St. Chronicle, Homepage Feature
St. John's
The Chapel St. Chronicle: Sunday Sermon, Music, ...

Featuring our guest preacher The Rt. Rev. Mark Beckwith’s sermon from Sunday, information about the upcoming St. John’s Selects concert with Capella Alamire, info on our next Outside the Box coming next Sunday January 25, info on this year’s Elinor Williams Hooker Tea Talks from the Black Heritage Trail of NH, and links to all our content!

The Chapel St. Chronicle: Sunday Sermon, Music, and More!
January 13, 2026
Daily Reflection, Chapel St. Chronicle, Homepage Feature
St. John's
The Chapel St. Chronicle: Sunday Sermon, Go and ...

Featuring Rob’s sermon from Sunday, another fabulously spirited recording from Star Festival, information about the upcoming St. John’s Selects concert with Capella Alamire, an introduction to Nancy Garnhart’s new Community Meditation Group, and links to all our content!

The Chapel St. Chronicle: Sunday Sermon, Go and Do, and More!
January 6, 2026
Daily Reflection, Chapel St. Chronicle, Homepage Feature, Music
St. John's
The Chapel St. Chronicle: Sunday Sermon, Music, ...

Featuring Anne’s sermon from Sunday, a new recording from the Chapel Street Band, a poem from Anne’s sermon, information about Star Words, as well as links to all our content!

The Chapel St. Chronicle: Sunday Sermon, Music, and More!
December 23, 2025
Daily Reflection, Chapel St. Chronicle, Homepage Feature, Music, Advent, Children's Ministries
St. John's
The Chapel St. Chronicle: Sunday Sermon, Music, ...

Featuring Rob’s sermon from Sunday, a second showing of our annual Christmas Pageant, a full listing of our Christmas services through the Epiphany, a writeup from our recent collaboration with Home For All and their Pop-Up Care Village, as well as links to all our content!

The Chapel St. Chronicle: Sunday Sermon, Music, and More!
December 16, 2025
Daily Reflection, Chapel St. Chronicle, Homepage Feature, Music, Advent
St. John's
The Chapel St. Chronicle: Rejoice! Sunday ...

Featuring Rob’s sermon from Sunday, a second showing of our Service of Lessons and Carols, a note from Anne, info about Blue Christmas Service this Thursday, a full listing of all Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany offerings here at St. John’s, and information about the Vigil for the Longest Night, as well as links to all our content!

The Chapel St. Chronicle: Rejoice! Sunday Sermon, Music, and More!
St. John's
November 24, 2021
Daily Reflection

Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's
November 24, 2021
Daily Reflection
Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

Downing was 112 years young and was the oldest resident in Maryland history. Downing is also my great-aunt. My niece informed me that she was the 44th oldest person on the planet when she died. Wow!

Tagged: The Rev. Rob Stevens

St. John's
November 23, 2021
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Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's
November 23, 2021
Daily Reflection
Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

This Advent, join us on Sunday evenings at 5pm to sing, pray and reflect on the journey we are on, the journey of faith, the journey to Becoming Beloved Community.

Tagged: The People of St. John's

St. John's
November 22, 2021
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Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's
November 22, 2021
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Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

Pie Jesu, from Requiem by Gabriel Fauré, sung by Morgan King. Translation: Merciful Jesus, Lord, grant them rest, eternal rest.

Tagged: The People of St. John's

St. John's
November 20, 2021
Daily Reflection

Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's
November 20, 2021
Daily Reflection
Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

While it has been some time since I had been back to SJC on a more regular basis, I always feel welcome when I return, and the familiar faces that I was once used to seeing weekly, embraced me with the love that I had left with when I left for college in 2016.

Tagged: The People of St. John's

St. John's
November 19, 2021
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Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's
November 19, 2021
Daily Reflection
Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

People ought to saunter in the mountains - not hike!

Tagged: The People of St. John's

St. John's
November 18, 2021
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Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's
November 18, 2021
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Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

Interfaith Gathering Tonight!

Tagged: The People of St. John's

St. John's
November 17, 2021
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Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's
November 17, 2021
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Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive!

Tagged: The People of St. John's

St. John's
November 16, 2021
Daily Reflection

Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's
November 16, 2021
Daily Reflection
Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

Why do I have to register for church? You don’t, and thanks for walking this path with us.

Tagged: The People of St. John's

St. John's
November 15, 2021
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Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's
November 15, 2021
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Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

When Jesus talked to the Pharisees, he didn't say, "There, there. Everything's going to be all right." He said, "You brood of vipers! how can you speak good, when you are evil!" (Matthew 12:34). And he said that to them because he loved them.

Tagged: The People of St. John's

St. John's
November 13, 2021
Daily Reflection

Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's
November 13, 2021
Daily Reflection
Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

One of the true gifts of virtual church is that we get to hear from people like The Rev. Rengers. I hope this sermon challenges you and gives you hope. Let’s be this Church!

Tagged: The People of St. John's

St. John's
November 12, 2021
Daily Reflection

Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's
November 12, 2021
Daily Reflection
Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

One of the true gifts of virtual church is that we get to hear from people like The Rev. Rengers. I hope this sermon challenges you and gives you hope. Let’s be this Church!

Tagged: The People of St. John's

St. John's
November 11, 2021
Daily Reflection

Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's
November 11, 2021
Daily Reflection
Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

This is a piece we sang during the Celebration of Life for Duncan Raeside on October 22nd. Participating in these services is one of the greatest privileges of working in ministry - one that we don't take for granted.

Tagged: The People of St. John's

St. John's
November 10, 2021
Daily Reflection

Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's
November 10, 2021
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Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

My heart rejoices that I am part of you and you are part of me. This is my love letter to you all.

Tagged: The People of St. John's

St. John's
November 9, 2021
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Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's
November 9, 2021
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Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

Sometimes it is only when you happen to taste a crumb of it that you dimly realize what it is that you're so hungry for you can hardly bear it.

Tagged: The People of St. John's

St. John's
November 8, 2021
Daily Reflection

Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's
November 8, 2021
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Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

How do you define mercy?

Tagged: The People of St. John's

St. John's
November 6, 2021
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St. John's
November 6, 2021
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Then it is only kindness that makes sense anymore

Tagged: The People of St. John's

St. John's
November 4, 2021
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Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's
November 4, 2021
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Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

Let us too be sustained by prayer and our loving community as we journey together through the wilderness of our time and listen attentively for ways God may be calling us individually or as a community to make a difference.

Tagged: The People of St. John's

St. John's
November 3, 2021
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Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's
November 3, 2021
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Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

our years ago we heard “God’s love refuses to be kept in a box.” This is Bishop Rob Hirschfeld and our Presiding Bishop’s vision of our “being the Beloved Community”.

Tagged: The People of St. John's

St. John's
November 2, 2021
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Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's
November 2, 2021
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Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

However, as I’ve reflected this week on what really made being together so powerful for me was not just being back in the sanctuary, it was the PEOPLE who were there.

Tagged: The People of St. John's

St. John's
November 1, 2021
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Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

St. John's
November 1, 2021
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Daily Reflection | Connected in Christ

Chuck has some brilliant fundraising ideas for 2022, but it’s been hard to drag the vestry along with them… so he says we’re going to have to do it ourselves. **HUMOR ALERT**

Tagged: The People of St. John's

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