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About Nadia Stefko

The Rev. Nadia Stefko is a recovering vegetable farmer and Episcopal priest. She serves as Associate Rector at Christ Church Winnetka. She lives with her husband and their two young daughters in Skokie, Illinois – in the Lake Michigan watershed.

Words, Wonder, Wheat, and Resurrection

April 24, 2017 By Nadia Stefko 1 Comment

My young daughter is beginning to understand the holy through the ordinary.

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Filed Under: Easter, Parenting Tagged With: baptism, Easter, resurrection, Walter Wangerin, wheat

The Litany of Penitence prepares us for the season to come.

March 13, 2017 By Nadia Stefko 3 Comments

If I want to be able to absorb all the new life Easter has to offer – all the resistance it offers to the powers of sin in our broken world – I need the grace that comes with honest confession and repentance.

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Filed Under: Lent, Liturgical Year Tagged With: agriculture, Book of Common Prayer, compost, Easter, liturgy, penitence, resurrection, sin

My Lenten Discipline: Respecting Death

February 28, 2017 By Nadia Stefko 2 Comments

My hope is that–with one eye on my prayer book, and the other on the compost heap–I can come to respect the work death does for us… the life it enables to take root.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: Ash Wednesday, compost, death, Lent, repentance, spring, winter

Eating in Place (in a midwestern winter)

January 24, 2017 By Nadia Stefko 2 Comments

Eating in place cares for our community and climate. But it’s tricky when the ground is blanketed by snow.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: All Creation Waits, climate change, eating in place, farm, food, watershed discipleship

What does it mean to keep the feast?

December 19, 2016 By Nadia Stefko Leave a Comment

Feasting is not the same as gluttony. In fact, thoughtful, Christian feasting is in many ways gluttony’s opposite.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: Advent, Christmas, feast, food, Holy Eucharist, Thanksgiving

Why We Say Grace

November 22, 2016 By Nadia Stefko 2 Comments

It is by God’s hand, not our own doing, that we are all continually fed.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: food, garden, grace, Lords Prayer, Prayer

Our family’s food choices matter because of our faith.

October 14, 2016 By Nadia Stefko Leave a Comment

Not long ago, I was a farmer. These days, it seems like a victory just to get dinner on the table.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: Bible, food, gardening, Holy Eucharist, land

The Farm in Lent

March 2, 2016 By Nadia Stefko 2 Comments

You visit the earth and water it… You water its furrows abundantly, settling its ridges, softening it with showers, and blessing its growth. – Psalm 65 During Lent on […]

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Filed Under: Lent Tagged With: farm, gardening, Lent

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