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Dear Theophilus

Luke is quite obviously the fussiest of the gospel writers. Mark starts his gospel in the middle, jumping straight into ...
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Teaching the Way of Jesus

“The Jesus I grew up with was zero percent relaxed, but the Jesus I know now carries an ease I’ve ...
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Sacrificial Adventure

“[B]ut we have assuredly formed a body of people to whom the Church is a challenge to sacrificial adventure, rather ...
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Discipleship for Unbelieving Teens

A gift that accompanies most funerals is the opportunity to reconnect with long-distance family. This was certainly true the day ...
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Discovering Your Purpose and Calling in Life Through Faithful Parenting

Parenting is one of life’s greatest gifts and responsibilities. For those who feel called to this journey, it can be ...
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Guidance for Parenting from the Little Flower

It might seem a stretch to take inspiration and strength in parenting from a Saint who entered a cloistered convent when she ...
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Angels: Agents of God’s Word and Deed

One of the most joyous times within church congregations is, notably, that of various renditions of the Christmas pageant. Most ...
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Hope Yet to Come

This past June, a two-story house in our neighborhood was struck by lightning during an overnight thunderstorm. The strike opened ...
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Continuing to Tell the Story of Anna Alexander

Deaconess Anna Alexander, whom we commemorate today, is a fairly recent addition to the Episcopal calendar of saints. She was ...
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Children, Faith, and Answering Hard Questions

Talking to children about big concepts like faith can be intimidating. How do we know what’s age-appropriate? How do we ...
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Legendary Listener

What does it mean to be legendary? If one were to do some research on Matthew, Apostle, evangelist, and author ...
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A Prayer Practice Hidden in Plan Sight

This week my social media memories have been full of events from seven years ago when Hurricane Florence made landfall ...
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Hopes and Fears of All the Years

I’ve been thinking a lot about the nature of longing. This has made for awkward holiday gatherings with typical mid-forties ...
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Jolly Old Saint Nicholas

While some saints are obscure enough that we must pause to recall who they were and what they did, most ...
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Honoring the ‘Saint’ in Saint Nicholas

I used to play Saint Nicholas and present his story at Christmas markets designed to inspire giving to non-profits helping ...
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Jesus’ Invitation to Andrew and to Us This Advent

Searching the Gospel for stories of Andrew, we find him in sentences such as this one from Matthew 10: “Simon, ...
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Welcoming Advent into Our Homes

Part of my family is already observing Advent. And it's not the clergy parents who are up to their eyeballs ...
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Forming Faith in the Chronicles of Narnia

In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed. Clive ...
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