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What we believe

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We Episcopalians believe in a loving, liberating, and life-giving God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. As constituent members of the Anglican Communion in the United States, we are descendants of and partners with the Church of England and the Scottish Episcopal Church, and are part of the third largest group of Christians in the world.

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We believe in following the teachings of Jesus Christ, whose life, death, and resurrection saved the world.

We have a legacy of inclusion, aspiring to tell and exemplify God’s love for every human being; women and men serve as bishops, priests, and deacons in our church. Laypeople and clergy cooperate as leaders at all levels of our church. Leadership is a gift from God, and can be expressed by all people in our church, regardless of sexual identity or orientation.

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We believe that God loves you – no exceptions.

​Christian Community

We are an Episcopal Church in the Anglican tradition. As a church we see ourselves as the Body of which Jesus Christ is the Head and of which all baptized persons are members.

We are a community of faith that is inclusive and welcoming of all races, genders and cultures.                                                                                    

Mary's Room
​Don't just go to church, Be The Church!

​​​We take seriously the idea of community of faith as a context within which people from different backgrounds and with varying perspectives can openly share their experiences of God and can attend to one another in a spirit of love.

Anglican Temperament
The following draws on John Westerhoff’s descriptions of each:

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Comprehensive: Anglicans believe the truth is to be found in the tension between counter-opposites. We affirm both the sacred and secular, both the material and the non-material, both the mind and the heart, both the transcendence and the intimate closeness of God.
Ambiguous: Anglicans are not “black and white” thinkers, but instead affirm the ambiguity of experience and the value of learning to tolerate and embrace complexity and ambiguity in many aspects of human life and in the spiritual journey.
Open-minded: Anglicans are people of a questioning faith. We search for wisdom in many places and encourage people to listen to each other and to bring their honest questions to their spiritual life.
Intuitive: Anglicans are at home in the world of image, symbol, myth, ritual, and the arts. Very few Anglicans write systematic theologies. Instead we are writers, poets, pastors, and musicians.

Aesthetic: Anglicans believe that beauty is the doorway to truth and goodness and that beauty is a doorway to God.

Moderate: Anglicans avoid extremes, believing that a godly life is one that is disciplined, balanced and temperate.

Naturalistic: Anglicans have a reverence for nature and its rhythms. Anglicans believe in working to protect the natural world and its creatures.

Political: Anglicans believe that Christian life has political implications and that civic life is both a legitimate and important place for Christian’s apostolate to be expressed.

 

 

We extend a special welcome to those who are single, married, divorced, widowed, straight, gay, confused, well-heeled or down-at-heel. We especially welcome wailing babies and excited toddlers. We welcome you whether you can sing like Pavarotti or just growl quietly to yourself. You're welcome here if you're just browsing, just woken up or just got out of prison. We don't care if you're more Christian than the Archbishop of Canterbury or haven't been to church since Christmas 10 years ago. We extend a special welcome to those who are over 60 but not grown up yet and to teenagers who are growing up too fast.

We welcome keep-fit moms, football dads, starving artists, tree huggers, latte sippers, vegetarians, junk food eaters. We welcome those who are in recovery or still addicted. We welcome you if you're having problems, are down in the dumps or don't like organized religion. We're not that keen on it either. We offer welcome to those who think the Earth is flat, work too hard, don't work, can't spell, or are here because Granny is visiting and wanted to come to the church. We welcome those who are inked, pierced, both or neither. We offer a special welcome to those who could use a prayer right now, had religion shoved down their throats as kids or got lost on the Ring Road and wound up here by mistake.

We welcome pilgrims, tourists, seekers, doubters and you.

-Borrowed from Coventry Cathedral (http://www.coventrycathedral.org.uk/wpsite/)

Other Sites Related to St. Paul's

(which you can google if you would like to check them out)

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  • Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee

  • Episcopal Church USA

  • Anglican Communion

  • Episcopal Relief and Development

  • Episcopal Student Center

  • Young Adult Services Corps

  • YouTubeEpiscopal

  • Episcopal Web Radio

  • Episcopal Cafe 

  • Episcopal Digital Network

  • Episcopal Church Foundation

  • NRSV Bible 

  • The Book of Common Prayer Online 

  • Ministerio Latino - Sermones que Iluminan

  • The Revised Common Lectionary

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