The Road to Emmaus, the Slough of Despond: how to keep going on your pilgrim journey.

In this video, Veronika asks St. Luker's to reflect on ways to get out of the Slough of Despond ( an image from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress), which is an allegory for the disillusionment one may feel at certain early points in a long difficult journey, like a pilgrimage or a response to a long-lasting crisis. Bunyan's character gets out of the Slough only after accepting help from another person (usefully named "Help" in the story).

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Unruly Wills, Belief, and Resurrection

I’ve always had a bit of an unruly will, and it has been more difficult than usual to obey needed restrictions these past couple of weeks. During a period of self-isolation because of my brief lunch with a colleague who tested positive for Covid-19, and now due to the governor’s orders, I have been mostly in my house for seventeen days. We’ve been worshiping online each week, but I long to see all of you in person. I’ve been praying to receive “my daily bread” from God, but fasting from the “Bread of Life” as we have not been able to share the Eucharist on three Sundays. I am doing what the public health authorities say I must to help slow the spread of the coronavirus that causes covid-19, but I don’t have to like it. You don’t have to like it either. What we are going through this Lent is hard, but it is not unprecedented in our Christian history.

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Saint Luke's Day School Remains Closed

From the Board of Directors of Saint Luke’s Day School.

St. Luke's Day School is closed effective today, March 13th, 2020, in accordance with Bishop Goff and the Episcopal Church, St. Luke's Church leadership and the SLDS Parent Trustees. Along with the Church, we will consider reopening March 25th, 2020. However, we will reassess what public health officials are recommending at that time.

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