Help Put Together Migrant Survival Packs Sunday
For the past several weeks, St. Philip's Outreach Commission has been collecting items for migrant survival pacs to help support Humanitarian Border Solutions, an organization devoted to providing humanitarian aid to migrants. Now we need your help this Sunday, July 31, to take the donated items and put them together into migrant survival packs.  We will have tables set up in the Gallery between 10 and 11:30 a.m. to do this, and members of Outreach will be available to give instructions as well as work alongside you.  It goes very fast, is lots of fun, and refreshments will be available to keep your strength up!  Also, additional donations of items (water in particular) are still welcome on Sunday morning before 10 a.m. Thanks and see you there!   

Summer Lecture Series Begins Sunday

Each summer the University of Arizona Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies joins St. Philip's In The Hills Episcopal Church to present a summer lecture series. This year's series will place the timely theme of immigration within a historical setting.  Entitled "Flight into Strange Lands: Religious Migration in the Early Modern World," the lectures will take up prominent examples of expulsion or voluntary emigration out of religious motives-the desire to retain the faith of a group's ancestors or to find an environment within which to practice "true religion."  Oberman Professor Ute Lotz-Heumann and three Division doctoral students will take turns speaking on: the expulsion of the Jews from Aragon and Castile in 1492 (Sean Clark); the effort of a group of Anabaptists to establish a godly community under the protection of a nobleman in Moravia (Amy Newhouse); the so-called Pilgrims' journey to Plymouth in the New World (Mary Kovel); and the dispersion of the Huguenots (French Calvinists) after King Louis XIV's revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685.  Each lecture will portray the bravery exhibited by women and men who were committed to their nonconformist beliefs.

Sunday, July 31--"The Other 1492: Ferdinand, Isabella, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain" with Sean Clark, Ph.D. student

Sunday, August 7 --"From Sedition to the Promised Land: Anabaptists in Moravia" with Amy Newhouse, Ph.D. student

Sunday, August 14--"Strangers in a Strange Land: The Voyage of the Mayflower Pilgrims" with Mary Kovel, Ph.D. student

Sunday, August 21--"A New Life?  Huguenot Communities in Europe and North America after 1685" with Ute Lotz-Heumann, Heiko A. Oberman Professor of Late Medieval and Reformation History  

"Christmas in July" Sale Ends Sunday

Sunday, July 31, is the last day of St. Philip's Little Shop's "Christmas in July" sale. Shop now for Christmas and save! We have found more merchandise in the back, so if you have been by, come by again. Previously marked down stock has been further reduced. Credit cards accepted. Don't miss it! Watch for continued shipments of new items through the summer and fall. Little Shop.

Friends of Music Summer Concert: Rodriguez and Keepe Duo

Friends of Music's popular summer concert series continues on Sunday, July 31, with the classical piano and saxophone duo of Allen Rodriguez and Michael Keepe. They will explore the many musical colors of this unique combination of sounds through original compositions and transcriptions of timeless favorites: works by Bach, Granados, Ravel, Tchaikovsky, Kreisler, Weidoeft, and more. The concert includes their arrangement of Bach's and Gounod's Ave Maria, which is part of "Can We Get Together," a benefit album that supports the victims of the January 8th shooting. At 2 p.m. in the Church. Admission by donation ($15 suggested).

Summer concerts continue in August and September! August 21 brings "Reeds and Roulades" with Elena Todd, John Snavely, and Marie Sierra. On August 28, join Zephyrus Trio and Friends (Cindy Behmer, Kevin Justus, Cassandra Bendickson, Gregory Helseth, Philip Hemmo, and Michael Dauphinais) for "Winds, Keys, and Cords." On September 18, bid a "Mozartean Farewell to Summer" with the Bella Carita Chamber Ensemble. All are at 2 p.m. in the Church.