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Apr 25, 2021  |  

"Throwing My Hat in the Ring" with John Rusciolelli

  |  Faith Stories Podcast
Faith Stories Podcast

"Throwing My Hat in the Ring" with John Rusciolelli

Faith Story Series, April 25, 2021

Apr 19, 2021  |  

"Faith Through Struggle" with Jane Ward

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Faith Stories Podcast

"Faith Through Struggle" with Jane Ward

"Faith Through Struggle" with Jane Ward, April 18, 2021

Feb 14, 2021  |  

"What my Christian faith was calling me to do" with Kirsten Sherk

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Faith Stories Podcast

"What my Christian faith was calling me to do" with Kirsten Sherk

"What my Christian faith was calling me to do" with Kirsten Sherk, Februay 14, 2021

Dec 06, 2020  |  

"Collaborating for a world that is just and humane" with LeRoy Walters

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Faith Stories Podcast

"Collaborating for a world that is just and humane" with LeRoy Walters

"Collaborating for a world that is just and humane" with LeRoy Walters, December 6, 2020

Nov 08, 2020  |  

"Calling me back" with Betsy Oster

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Faith Stories Podcast

"Calling me back" with Betsy Oster

Betsy describes her complex relationship with church, religion, and why God keeps calling her back.

Oct 18, 2020  |  

"More Than Ever" with Kathleen Romig Krepps

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Faith Stories Podcast

"More Than Ever" with Kathleen Romig Krepps

Kathleen shares how her experience with St. C's has evolved since the pandemic began.

Oct 11, 2020  |  

"Finding peace in the midst of a storm" with Praveen Jeyarajah

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Faith Stories Podcast

"Finding peace in the midst of a storm" with Praveen Jeyarajah

"Finding peace in the midst of a storm" with Praveen Jeyarajah

Sep 22, 2020  |  

Emil Massad

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Faith Stories Podcast

Emil Massad

That faith is something I believe in too.

Aug 23, 2020  |  

Nina Howe-Goldstein

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Faith Stories Podcast

Nina Howe-Goldstein

Nina reflects on her life at St. Columba's as a sacristan and a YAC member, and how that has changed during the pandemic.

Jul 12, 2020  |  

Alexander Del Vecchio

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Faith Stories Podcast

Alexander Del Vecchio

A couple of years ago on Father’s Day, I participated in my regular Sunday mass in Washington. It was similar to any other one, except for the visiting Bishop who was celebrating that Sunday. And during his homily the bishop wished all the fathers present a Happy Father’s Day.

Jun 21, 2020  |  

Angela Nugent

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Faith Stories Podcast

Angela Nugent

Parishioner Angela Nugent shares her faith story.

Jan 26, 2020  |  

David Fahrenthold

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Faith Stories Podcast

David Fahrenthold

Hello everybody. I want to tell you that one of the most important moments of my life in faith actually happened right over there, on the blue seats at the side of the Nave, on a summer Sunday just a few years ago. You might even have been here when that moment happened, but you probably don't remember. In keeping with the exuberant and charismatic traditions of our faith, when I felt the life-changing epiphany, I said nothing at all. In fact, literally the first time I shared what I felt at that powerful moment was at the 8 o'clock service today. But it was big, and what got me was a song ...

Dec 15, 2019  |  

Sandy Mackenzie

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Faith Stories Podcast

Sandy Mackenzie

Apart from attendance at a memorial service for a friend who was a parishioner of St. Columba’s some years ago, I first attended St. Columba’s in the late spring of 2018, following a difficult period earlier in the year, when I had been hospitalized for many nights. I hale from Nova Scotia, grew up in Toronto, and being brought up as an Anglican, it was natural for me to join you lot when I moved to the United States some four decades ago. I had sporadically attended a number of churches in the area before coming to St. C’s. I was undoubtedly attracted to the ritual, music and language of the church, but I must confess, had become pretty skeptical about Christianity’s basic doctrines.

Dec 01, 2019  |  

Jay Treadwell

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Faith Stories Podcast

Jay Treadwell

Good Morning Everybody, My history of faith is brief but not so spectacular, I would think. My first memory of any church was in New York where I lived. My mother was recently divorced from my father which I didn't know at the time. I would not declare truth or fiction as to whether there truly was a Santa Claus. We were walking home from The Brick Presbytarian Church where we theoretically were members on 91st Street in Manhattan and my mother would neither confirm nor deny that this character of Santa Claus ever existed. We had the habit of going to church at Christmas and Easter ...

Oct 27, 2019  |  

Sara Glenn

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Faith Stories Podcast

Sara Glenn

Good Morning! Shortly after I agreed to tell my faith story, well really almost immediately after I had agreed, I had a thought and maybe some of you can relate to this. I thought: Wait, did I just say yes? But here I am and I'd like to share a part of my faith story. It's the part I think about often, especially during stewardship season ...

Sep 29, 2019  |  

Jessica Mullery

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Faith Stories Podcast

Jessica Mullery

Good morning everyone. For those of you who don't know me, my name is Jessica Mullery. My husband and I have been attending St. C's for about 3 years now. I don't have a major conversion story, but as we enter Stewardship season I wanted to share an area of my life where God has turned my heart. I have always been a frugal person. I began saving for a down-payment on a home at age 9 and, this is a true story, saved all my bank statements as a child, statements with sums as high as $87.13, in case I was ever audited by the IRS. Although I have given up my boxed bank statements, my zeal for saving has continued my all life.

Aug 18, 2019  |  

Chip Somodevilla

  |  Faith Stories Podcast
Faith Stories Podcast

Chip Somodevilla

Good Morning, My family and I have been members here at St. Columba's since 2009. Like some of the others who have shared faith stories here before, I too was raised in the Episcopal Church. In the Church, I actually had several different families of different sizes. And each of these families helped inspire and instill in me a deep sense of service to others. My parents in fact chose their careers focused on serving others ...

Jul 21, 2019  |  

Jennifer Turner

  |  Faith Stories Podcast
Faith Stories Podcast

Jennifer Turner

My name is Jennifer Turner. Thank you for listening to this attempt to put something about my faith into words. One of my favorite writers and theologians, Frederick Buechner, says "Faith is better understood as a verb than as a noun, as a process than as a possession. It is on-again-off-again rather than once-and-for-all. Faith is not being sure where you are going, but going anyway. A journey without maps." I like thinking of my faith as a verb, as winding paths of present participles, loving, seeking, serving, sinning, repenting, praying, doubting ...

Jun 16, 2019  |  

Marti Villarreal

  |  Faith Stories Podcast
Faith Stories Podcast

Marti Villarreal

Good Morning, My name is Marti Villarreal. A little background: I am a cradle Episcopalian with several lapses. I have been active in the parishes where ever I have lived: Augusta, GA, Columbia, SC and Washington, DC; St. Augusta in SW and here. Our family has been at St. Columba's since 1978, but this story begins earlier in 1963. I was 27. I came to DC from Columbia, SC in early 1963 which is ancient history for many of you; it was before the Civil Rights Act, also probably before cell phones ...

May 19, 2019  |  

Steve Smith

  |  Faith Stories Podcast
Faith Stories Podcast

Steve Smith

This is meant to be a faith story, and I guess things don’t get a lot more personal than that. So let me start with a confession. I enjoy public speaking. But, when Jason asked me to speak here — today — about my faith — it felt a little like getting picked for jury duty. I mean, I looked forward to being in this pulpit at some point. Maybe one of the readings at Lessons & Carols? But, climbing these steps to stand before you to profess my faith was something I’d been content to avoid.

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