Please join us every Wednesday afternoon at 4:00 p.m. to look at the Lectionary selections for the upcoming Sunday. Merle will live stream the Lectionary study via Facebook Friends of St. Stephen’s. If you wish to be included, send a friend request and you can be added.

July Book Club selection is “James!” by Percival Everett. July date for meeting at 9:30 a.m. is July 8. If you would like a copy of the book, please contact Rita Baker.

When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.  

Brimming with the electrifying humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim’s agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first century American literature. “James!” is a retelling of “Huck Finn”.