I've been a parishioner at St. Luke's since 2002. A warm and welcoming parish, there's a wide diversity of people regularly attending services, a large number of whom are also heavily involved in organizing and managing many programs and activities--Father Tom Reese is a one-man-band when it comes to clergy staff, so the level of activity generated by volunteer parishioners makes this church feel and act like a much larger parish than it actually is.
Most of all, I'm a big fan of Father Tom. His sermons can get a bit dense and sometimes I have to really pay attention to follow his intellectually challenging path--but that's a good thing. Tom doesn't talk down to us, nor does he "preach" in the sense of finger-wagging Thou Shalts; instead, he invites us to look deeper into what our faith means, how it is revealed in scripture and discussed in the writings of Christian thinkers. The adult education/spirituality groups are well run, thought provoking, and conducive to a better understanding of the Episcopal Church and its take on Christian teaching. read more