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Printable Back to School Prayer Bookmarks

These free, printable bookmarks are a way to remind both students and teachers of God's presence with them as a ...
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Preparing to Celebrate St. Mary the Virgin

As Episcopalians, we are both Protestant and Catholic. We can pray the rosary to honor Mary and grow closer to ...
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Celebrating the Transfiguration

Peter and the other disciples, witnessing this great event, are just like me as I watch the far more mundane ...
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Secret of a Pew Whisperer: Explain the Game

My dad didn’t just explain football to me—he and mom explained what was going on in church too: what we ...
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The Legacy of a Faith Community

I was reminded on Sunday that people make a church a home. Physical structures cannot compare to God’s spirit shining ...
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In a broken world, I can teach my children honesty.

In order to follow Jesus, we must be willing to venture honestly both into our own brokenness and that of ...
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Preparing to celebrate the Transfiguration – and much more – at home

The church celebrates the feast of the Transfiguration next Saturday. These words from Full Homely Divinity give us a taste ...
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A traveling prayer altar helps me stay centered.

My travel prayer altar has helped keep me more spiritually centered, grounded, patient, and grateful on family vacations and at ...
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We Met A Stranger on the Road

Terrorism teaches us to fear the stranger. But our faith calls us to love ...
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Celebrating St. James, Apostle

There is something about Jesus that makes a claim on a person. St. James knew that at first hand ...
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Celebrating St. Mary Magdalene

The work of beholding resurrection and new life belongs to all the faithful ...
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Charting a Course of Faith when the Road Gets Rough

I haven’t given up on our country. I haven’t given up on God ...
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The Resonance of Pauli Murray’s Sainthood

Sometimes I struggle with the witness of the saints. While the Church identifies a saint as “a holy person, a ...
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Loving and Forgiving with Peter and Paul

Although Saint Peter is remembered within our Church calendar on January 18 by his confession of Christ, and the conversion ...
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Dog (Man) Days of Summer

More than five years into life with our spring-loaded third child, who wakes up (and often wakes us up) at ...
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John the Baptist and the Holiness Movement

Today we celebrate the Feast of the Nativity of John the Baptist. His narrative begins with the Angel Gabriel making ...
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The perspective of a true teacher as modeled by Adelaide Teague Case

In the back of my cupboard sits a chipped coffee mug, a gift from my supervising teacher at the end ...
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The Trinity Calls us Deeper into Relationship 

“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God” (John 1:1).  And ...
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