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Outward and Visible Signs of Friendship

January 12, 2023 By Erin Jean Warde Leave a Comment

Saint Aelred of Rievaulx is known for his work on spiritual friendship.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: cloud of witnesses, coronavirus, friendship, sacrament

Jonathan Daniels and Risking One’s Life for the Gospel

August 14, 2021 By Erin Jean Warde Leave a Comment

I like many have begun, far later than I have an excuse for, to reckon with the history of what I once called home.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, books, discipleship, Martin Luther King, martyrdom, saints, seminary

Finding Comfort in the Transfigured Christ

August 6, 2021 By Erin Jean Warde 2 Comments

There is no question that I am the disciple asking if we can make a dwelling, to try to live inside the fleeting moments when I feel the very palpable love and presence of God.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: doubt, Feast Days, Jesus Christ, Transfiguration

When the theoretical becomes concrete

June 8, 2021 By Erin Jean Warde 1 Comment

We celebrate the life of Saint Melania today, a Desert Mother with a heart specifically inclined toward giving away the incredible wealth she possessed. It can be difficult, in the current day, to think about our relationship with wealth, in large part because we have chosen to understand it as less concrete.

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Extremely Online

April 6, 2021 By Erin Jean Warde Leave a Comment

I am, in the fullest sense of it, Extremely Online.

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God Can Survive Your Questions

March 25, 2021 By Erin Jean Warde 2 Comments

Lately I’ve been praying through my spiritual past, letting memory guide me through how I became a Christian in a non-Christian family, how I traversed fundamentalism to later become Episcopalian, and how the Episcopal Church dared to ordain me both deacon and priest

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Filed Under: Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Annunciation, Blessed Virgin Mary, Feast Days, fundamentalism

Spiritual Keys of Liberation

January 31, 2021 By Erin Jean Warde Leave a Comment

Today we celebrate the feast day of Saint Sam Shoemaker, Episcopal priest and deeply influential voice within the Alcoholics Anonymous community.

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Filed Under: Saints, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: alcohol, cloud of witnesses, sobriety, theology

Following the Living Examples of Agnes and Cecelia

January 21, 2021 By Erin Jean Warde 2 Comments

Saint Cecelia and Saint Agnes are known for contributions to the church writ large, one contribution being how they have inspired the women who came into the church after them. 

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Outward and Visible Signs of Friendship

January 12, 2021 By Erin Jean Warde 1 Comment

Saint Aelred of Rievaulx is known for his work on spiritual friendship. What a time to be confronted with the idea of spiritual friendship, when friendship might feel like the furthest-away love we are feeling.

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Margery Kempe’s Devils and Demons

November 9, 2020 By Erin Jean Warde 1 Comment

Today we observe the commemoration of Saint Margery Kempe, a presence within the Christian faith and life for a variety of reasons, not least of which how well her wailing was known to the people in her vicinity.

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