Are you "spiritual but not religious"? We think you will find something at St James that is both deep and compelling: community. We struggle with it... we don't always get it right, but sometimes, we do. The Rev. Gary Hall, rector of Christ Church, Cranbrook says it best:
We tend to think our friends and neighbors don’t come here because they’re not interested. It doesn’t occur to us that they stay away because they don’t think we’ll help them attend to the big questions they have to ask.... The people who avoid us do so not because we are too spiritual but because they see us as not spiritual enough.
....I am beginning to see that what I believe to be true about churchgoers is also true about those who spend Sunday with the newspaper. People no longer have to go to church for any reason save an inner compulsion to go there. Those who do show up on Sunday are responding to something God is prompting in them. The corollary is this: those who stay home on Sunday are no less subject to God’s nudgings. They simply don’t believe that we in organized churches have anything deep or compelling to tell them anymore.
Knowing and loving the church (and this church) as I do, I believe we do have something deep and compelling to tell those who live and work and study and play around us. We have to do a better job of letting them know that a liturgically serious, intellectually open, socially committed, pastorally engaged faith community like ours will provide a place to root themselves in the life of faith.... Together we can find a way to be both spiritual and religious.
I think that sums up St James: a liturgically serious, intellectually open, socially committed, pastorally engaged faith community that provides a place for people to root themselves in the life of faith. Feeling nudged these days? Come and see....
St. James Episcopal Church is a forward-looking urban parish, grounded in the sacramental and liturgical life of The Book of Common Prayer, the Holy Scripture, and the Anglican tradition. We strive to be a faithful community that lives out our baptismal vows. It is the mission of the Church to restore all people to unity with God and each other in Christ. 
