For the first five Sundays during Lent we will have an extended Common Hour after the 10 a.m. service, from 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Everyone is invited to join us for a simple soup lunch in the parish hall followed by an edifying presentation from a local scholar. Lessons and activities for children and youth will take place during the lecture, and nursery care will be available until 12:30 p.m.

Below is the Lenten Common Hour lineup:

February 18 – Serving Life at Angola: Reflections on Ministry and Mass Incarceration at the Louisiana State Penitentiary, by the Rev. Dr. Peter Kang

February 25 – Atonement and Black Queer Theology, by the Rev. Jason Oliver Evans (PhD Candidate in Religious Studies at UVA)

March 3 – Colonial Chaos: Evangelism and Episcopalians in Early America, by Samantha Kang (PhD Candidate in Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara)

March 10 – Benedictine Spirituality and Everyday Life: From the Inner City to the Ivory Tower, by Angel Adams Parham (Associate Professor of Sociology and Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at UVA)

March 17 – Watching with Christ in Gethsemane: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letter from a Gestapo Prison, July 21, 1944, by Charles Marsh (Commonwealth Professor of Religious Studies and Director of the Project on Lived Theology at UVA)