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About Jamie Osborne

Jamie Osborne is an Episcopal priest serving as an associate at St John's Episcopal Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Jamie and his wife, Lauren, are raising two young children and a rescue a rescue dog named Prince. In addition to nurturing those already in the Episcopal Church, Jamie has a desire to guide young adults and those who are unchurched/dechurched into a life of faith in the Episcopal tradition. He also spends quite a bit of time wondering what God might be calling the church to be and do in the midst of the cultural, technological, and religious shifts that are happening in the landscape of the United States and the world.

Overcoming Prejudice with God’s Love

February 4, 2022 By Jamie Osborne 1 Comment

To remember Cornelius is to celebrate courage persevering through prejudice and how God’s love can overcome our blindness.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Acts of the Apostles, baptism, cloud of witnesses, Cornelius, love, St. Peter

Trick or Treating in the Light-filled Darkness

October 31, 2021 By Jamie Osborne Leave a Comment

Halloween isn’t about a godless world ruled by evil and dark spiritual forces. It’s precisely the opposite.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: All Hallow's Eve, darkness, devil, Halloween

Shifting in Overhead Bins and Within Our Souls

August 17, 2021 By Jamie Osborne 1 Comment

“Please use caution when opening overhead bins as items may have shifted.”  That’s how this past year or more has felt for me. 

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: coronavirus, Faith, priesthood

Except in Lent, add Alleluia.

August 21, 2020 By Jamie Osborne 1 Comment

I had something curious happen to me this past week, and it’s made me pay attention and wonder how the events of this past year are affecting not only me, but all of us.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year Tagged With: alleluia, coronavirus, Daily Office, Evening Prayer, ordinary time, Pentecost, St. Benedict

Saint George’s complicated memory

April 23, 2020 By Jamie Osborne Leave a Comment

On this day, the Episcopal Church remembers Saint George, and I take some comfort in the complexity of his remembrance in Christian memory.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: military, parenting, Saint George

Timothy, Titus, and the Stories that Shape Us

January 26, 2020 By Jamie Osborne 6 Comments

oday, the Episcopal Church commemorates Timothy and Titus, two companions of Saint Paul. Timothy and Titus were younger believers whom Paul entrusted with leadership responsibilities in the early Church. They were companions and fellow workers with Paul in ministry, but what strikes me most today is that they were also his spiritual children. 

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Bible, epistle, St. Paul, St. Timothy, St. Titus, young children

Science, Faith, and Chick-Fil-A

January 8, 2019 By Jamie Osborne 3 Comments

We were at Chik-Fil-A with my younger child for dinner. Earlier that day I had listened to a podcast that mentioned the Big Bang and I asked the kids if they knew about it. They both said no. So I explained the Big Bang and this is how the conversation went.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: children, Faithful Families, food, science

What does it mean to love Jonathan Myrick Daniels and those in our care?

August 14, 2018 By Jamie Osborne 2 Comments

O God of justice and compassion, you put down the proud and mighty from their place, and lift up the poor and the afflicted: We […]

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: children, parenting, saints

The Good News (for when we blow it)

June 27, 2016 By Jamie Osborne 2 Comments

Embody the love of God to my children? There are moments when I’m just trying to find the nearest hole into which I can crawl and hide.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: anger, disappointment, forgiveness, gospel, reconciliation

As a parent, I am my child’s guide

May 23, 2016 By Jamie Osborne 1 Comment

As parents and caregivers, our children are our guests as they learn to find their way through life.

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: bullying, parenting, young children

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