Communications | St. James Lutheran Church

Celebrating Our Namesake

On Sunday, July 23rd we will commemorate our name: St. James Lutheran Church. In October of 1889, a small band of Lutherans gathered in the wild, undeveloped part of the Oregon territory called Portland to found the first English speaking Lutheran Church within...

“His greatest present, was not to panic.” –Pestered by Plague

Historian and St. James member Friedrich Schuler recently published a book on the 1899 Quarantine Station in Astoria, Oregon. Dr. Hill Hastings is credited with keeping the fishing and timber community safe during the plague. Yet Schuler suggests that his greatest...

“There the angel of the Lord appeared to Moses in a flame of fire out of a bush…” –Exodus 3

Seen any burning bushes lately? In a recent article, Victor Parachin suggests that we could learn something from Moses: how to minister in the midst of diversity. This month we prepare to celebrate the many voices and cultures of Pentecost Sunday (May 28th). So what...

Holy Week 2023 at St. James

Invite a friend to join you as we journey with Jesus from Cross to Resurrection: –Sunday, April 2nd, 9:30am: Palm/Passion Sunday Eucharist & outdoor processional –Wednesday, April 5th, 12:00 Noon: Eucharist & Bible Study on the Stations of the Cross –Thursday,...

“Mortal, can these bones live?” –Ezekiel 37:3

From the Pastor’s Desk … Our St. James 40-day season of Lent is designed to be bumpy. Our theme of “Cross-Examinations” may feel like bumper cars at Oaks Park – one direction and then bumped another way! The prophet Ezekiel (550 years before Christ)...

“…people tend to believe that everyone sees the world the way they do.” –Temple Grandin

From the Pastor’s Desk … In her new book Visual Thinking, Temple Grandin writes of the virtues of complimentary minds. She is convinced that the Rosetta Stone of ancient Egypt was only deciphered due to two people whose minds could not have been more different....