Grace Episcopal Church, MPLS

04/02/2026

A quick note about Easter Sunday from Rector Susan. See you soon!

03/31/2026

On Palm Sunday, our rector—The Rev. Susan Daughtry—called out the many ways that Jesus embodied the Good News. What a great description of the Christian life. You should really hear it for yourself!

Remote worship for Grace Episcopal Church (formerly Sts. Luke & James) of Minneapolis. The Rev Susan Daughtry preaching.Online giving, https://onrealm.org/gr...

03/30/2026

Photos from the GEC folks at the ISAIAH Palm Sunday March yesterday!
From our Bishop, Craig Loya, yesterday:
"More than ten thousand Christians marched on the Capitol today in St. Paul as part of a nation wide movement to reclaim the name and way of Jesus in the public square from those who claim to follow his way, but pursue an agenda of cruelty, exclusion, and hatred he never sought, using the means of political domination he never used or authorized. Christianity is about meeting hatred with love, embracing the stranger, and living from joy and hope. What an amazing witness today."

03/14/2026

Grace Episcopal Church will gather on Zoom on Sunday March 15 due to the winter storm. The building will be closed, but our hearts are open!

Join us on Zoom, via the link we emailed to subscribers.

8:45am: Town Hall: Congregational Emergency Preparedness
Led by the Rev. Tim Kingsley, the Town Hall is a chance to share concerns about emergency preparedness at Grace. This session will be recorded.

10:00am Morning Prayer
Join us for a chance to worship at home, together, in community.

After the service:
Refresh your coffee and stick around for an informal time to connect: All are invited to share a a moment of joy or sorrow, a family-friendly joke, a funny face, or a costume!

Community Forum will proceed after the break.

This looks to be a serious storm!
Please make wise choices about travel tomorrow.

03/05/2026

Join us for Song and Silence in the style of Taizé worship - First Fridays at Grace, 7pm.
March 6 (this Friday) - Taizé service
April 3 - Good Friday Taizé, with a reading of the Passion Gospel
May 1 - Taizé service

02/18/2026

Tonight's Ash Wednesday service is cancelled due to weather and road conditions. You can still make a good beginning of Lent -- read the service bulletin and Fr. Larry's homily at the link below. We'll provide ashes at the start of Sunday's service. Drive safely tonight!

02/18/2026

Don't give up! Keep going.
Friends, our former presiding bishop's sermon, at the link below, is good medicine. If you need encouragement, the sermon starts at about 1:17.

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01/15/2026

Mobilizing for Love

"The forces of evil want us to meet anger with anger, they want us to meet fear with fear, and they want us to meet scorn with scorn. The forces of evil in the world are always fed by mimetic anger and hatred. You can be sure those forces are out there tonight as they ever are in a fallen world, daring us to become its food. And beloved, we’re not going to do that. We, as followers of Jesus, are going to turn the world upside down by mobilizing for Love."

01/14/2026

Outburst of Hope
By Pastor Steve Garnaas-Holmes
*Thanks to Huldah Niles for sharing this!*

A great armored machine gnaws toward us
on cruel tractor treads, venting fumes
of sorrow and dread, a friendly logo
of terror painted on its side,
boasting invincibility.

We stand in its path, naked and fragile.
But not helpless. Not afraid.
We don't await heroic intervention.
Our flesh is Word made flesh.

We love courageously.
We tell truth. Make noise. Sing lustily.
We give wildly. Take every hand extended.
We impede the wheels. We don't stop.
Our joy is disturbing, our peace unsettling,
our confidence reorienting.

We live every day as an outburst of hope.
Every day we rise.

01/09/2026

Invitation to a Day of Unity, Peace, and Service

Friends, Inspired by many who have led non-violent, peaceful movements, Gov. Walz has declared Friday, January 9th to be a Statewide Day of Unity, Peace, and Service. Grace Episcopal Church is connected to a state-wide organizing group, ISAIAH -- and they are inviting us to act collectively today in ways that are possible. Nothing is too small, and everything matters. Their invitation is below.

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On Friday, please honor Ms. Good’s memory by acting together, peacefully, and in service to each other.

Here are some good options *with links in comments below.*

1) Participate in a moment of silence at 10am CT on Friday, January 9th.

2) Attend the Day of Unity, Peace, & Service Vigil on Friday, January 9th at 4pm at the Minnesota State Capitol, 75 Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., St. Paul, MN 55155.

3) Patronize immigrant-owned businesses across the state.

4) Join an ICE rapid response training: Like Ms. Good, you have a right to attend, observe, record, and speak freely at ICE’s enforcement actions. Join a training to learn how to safely exercise both your rights and responsibilities.

5) Check in on your neighbors: Join your local volunteer Signal chat where requests for mutual support are shared.

6) Invite your neighbors over for coffee: Bring some coffee (or another hot beverage), buy some local baked goods, and invite folks to join you over the weekend. We do better when we’re together.

7) Call your Member of Congress: Advocate for the same three things: 1) ICE should immediately leave Minnesota, 2) Ms. Good’s murderer should be prosecuted, 3) Congress should hold ICE to account, conducting oversight and demanding answers for its recklessness and violence. If you need to find who represents you, look them up here.

8) Sign this petition demanding ICE stay out of Minnesota schools.

9) Go to your neighborhood school 15 minutes before school arrival and dismissal with a whistle. Stand across the street from the building and watch for ICE. If you see them, blow the whistle.

10) Download and print out signs stating that ICE is not welcome and what rights businesses have under the 4th amendment. Go to local businesses that you patronize and ask them to put them up in the window.

Let’s remember Ms. Good. Let’s protect our neighbors. Let’s be the North Star our nation needs.

12/08/2025

11/10/2025

Our annual online auction is live, with items ranging from handmade jewelry to meals to bike tune-ups to fishing trips to vacation travel! This is a great way to give a unique holiday gift, to meet some wonderful people, and/or to get some delicious food delivered to your door -- all while supporting the ministry of Grace Episcopal Church. Open now until November 23!

Silent auction 'November 2025 Grace Online Auction' hosted online at 32auctions.