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Birgitta of Sweeden, Dollie Burwell, and Faithful People Taking the Next Step

October 7, 2022 By Sara Irwin 1 Comment

Birgitta is… a lot. 

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: environment, justice, saints, visions

Argula von Grumbach and the Saints We Do Not Know

July 14, 2022 By Sara Irwin 1 Comment

Argula was — for a while — a wife, mother of four, and extremely privileged. Until she started speaking out. 

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: faith in action, Reformation, saints, women

Tired and thirsty in another pandemic winter

February 26, 2022 By Sara Irwin 1 Comment

I meet Photine in her slumped shoulders.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: coronavirus, Lesser Feasts and Fasts, The Gospel of John

Teresa of Avila: Holding on to God

October 15, 2021 By Sara Irwin 1 Comment

There are a lot of great quotations attributed to people who are not responsible for them.

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Filed Under: Prayer, Saints Tagged With: mystic, Prayer, teresa of avila

Clare of Assisi’s Longing to Be Close to God

August 11, 2021 By Sara Irwin Leave a Comment

As I write, my current circumstances are probably as different as could be imagined from Clare on her bed of not-even-straw.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: cloud of witnesses, God, monastic

Evelyn Underhill and Everyday Mystics

June 15, 2021 By Sara Irwin 1 Comment

Evelyn Underhill was a retreat leader, writer, spiritual director, and thinker of the early to mid 20th century. She was not raised in a religiously-inclined […]

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Even adults need Saint George’s extravagant adventures

April 23, 2021 By Sara Irwin Leave a Comment

Excavating the story of Saint George is a dizzying trip through western literature and English history—layer below layer below layer

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Bible, Feast Days, imagination, Saint George

Hoping for an Enlargement of Vision

January 9, 2021 By Sara Irwin Leave a Comment

Stretching the confines of what was possible for women’s leadership, Julia Chester Emery’s work changed the church and the world in her decades long ministry.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: cloud of witnesses, coronavirus, The Episcopal Church, United Thank Offering

Clutching Romans 5 on Election Day

November 3, 2020 By Sara Irwin Leave a Comment

All of the fault lines dividing us that have been exploited in American culture over the last four years will still be intact no matter when the ballots finish being counted and no matter who wins.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: election, hope, parenting, politics, Romans

Rallying cry: Christmas in September

September 16, 2020 By Sara Irwin 1 Comment

In a regular year, last Sunday would have been “Rally Day” at my church. 

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Parenting Tagged With: coronavirus, nativity

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