Pauli Murray makes our list of remembrances because she shines like the sun. She was the first African American woman ordained a priest in the […]
Barnabas and the god of thunder
Like so many of that early Christian crowd, we know little of Barnabas. A central figure in the Jerusalem community, he became even more famous […]
What We Hand Down
When someone hands down to us a precious family artifact, it comes to us scored with dozens of memories, scratches, stories, scents. Maybe a quilt […]
The Conversions of Saint Paul
Does the trajectory of your religious life look like Paul’s? Mine doesn’t, and not just because I never worked the coat closet at a stoning.
Speak now, my whole heart!
In my household, when we find ourselves really angry with each other, we begin to compose elaborate prefaces for our sentences.
Slow Down. Quiet. It’s Easter
Sometimes, Easter comes a little too soon.
Agatha of Sicily and Celebrating Whole Womanhood
Maybe you, like me, are surprised to see Pamela Anderson in a Christian education blog.
Ammonius the Hermit
Have you ever googled someone—or yourself, of course!—only to discover a whole lot of other people, in other countries and states, with the same name?
The Challenge of Earth Day
What is our relationship to this fragile Earth, our island home?
Brigid’s reminder of the world’s malleability
Take a moment, and think of one of your heroes.