Here at St. Luke’s, we suspect there is a dream inside you that refuses to die. It’s the dream of a world marked by reconciliation, justice, beauty, and wholeness. We want good and right and loving relationships: in our own lives, in our families, in our neighborhood, in our nation, and in the world. It is an ancient dream, and it refuses to die because it is God’s dream, too. It has been written on our hearts.

We are aware of how far our lives are from this divine dream; we understand the temptation to bury that God-given longing for something different. The distance between the world as it is (our lives as they are) and the world as we know it should be (our lives as we know they could be) seems impossibly vast. If we are going to walk that long road, if we are going to even try to cross that distance, where and how do we begin?

Although it is not the easiest path, we trust that the only way we are going to get anywhere worth going is through relationship: real, honest relationship with God, and real, honest relationship(s) with others. Our tradition tells us that God came to earth, God came to show his face and then gifted us with the Holy Spirit, out of love and compassion, out of a desire for a deeper relationship. It was obvious we needed more help in bridging great divides; Jesus Christ came “to guide our feet into the way of peace.” And from the very beginning, Christians have known (even if we have often failed to live it!) that if God’s desire for reconciliation -- good and right and loving relationship -- with humankind was strong enough to cross the line between heaven and earth, then our movement toward God’s dream will involve crossing lots of lines, too: lines of class, race, gender, language, culture . . . all the ways we humans have decided to divide ourselves between better and worse.

At St. Luke’s, our mission is to create spaces for God’s grace to form life-changing relationships with Christ and each other across lines of prejudice and privilege.

We are trying to live God’s love, walk that path towards peace, through friendship: with God, and with people that we might never otherwise be friends with if we stick to the the old, tired pathways of our broken world. We are walking together -- with God’s help -- on a different path, toward that divine dream. We hope you’ll join us.

The first step?  Just a cup of coffee or beer so one of us can hear your story.  Share your info below and we’ll be in touch.