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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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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Sabbath, social media

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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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: clergy, incarnation, priesthood, saints, women

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

Margery Kempe’s Devils and Demons

November 9, 2020 By Erin Jean Warde Leave a 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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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: cloud of witnesses, depression, devil, Jesus Christ

Saint Teresa, the Cloud Of Witnesses, and Chronic Pain

October 15, 2020 By Erin Jean Warde Leave a Comment

When I was 11 years old, I began having head splitting aches.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: cloud of witnesses, pain, patron saints, teresa of avila

The Verdant Greening of Joy

September 17, 2020 By Erin Jean Warde 1 Comment

Today we celebrate the commemoration of Saint Hildegard of Bingen, a woman offering so many gifts to the church that they are hard to list.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: gardening, healing, Hildegard of Bingen, joy, Lesser Feasts and Fasts, pain

The Stone Will Be Rolled Away

August 3, 2020 By Erin Jean Warde Leave a Comment

Today we celebrate the commemoration of Joanna, Mary, and Salome, the women who set out for the tomb bearing spices to anoint the dead body of Jesus.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Lesser Feasts and Fasts, tomb

Saint Columba, the Ascetic Life, and Black Lives

June 9, 2020 By Erin Jean Warde Leave a Comment

Years ago, I helped lead a youth group to Iona, Scotland for a pilgrimage. I remember thinking how great of a gift it was, to travel there in the first place, but also to be celebrating the Eucharist in a chapel at Iona, as well as on its shores.

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Filed Under: Saints, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Ascetic Life, Black Lives Matter, cloud of witnesses, Iona

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