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Imagined Greetings from Hildegard of Bingen on Her Feast Day
I, Hildegard of Bingen, love to linger in rooms with no ceilings. I love to romp through the borderlands between ...
Catherine of Genoa: Walking A Different Path
In early May of this year, things were going along pretty well. I was about to start a new job ...
Drawing hope from the cross
The cross, once a Roman instrument of torture, has become one of the most recognizable symbols of Christianity—seen on jewelry, ...
Fruits & Roots
Editor's Note: Without fail, each month I read the Roots & Wings newsletter from top to bottom (and multiple times) ...
Mary and the Art of Presence
“I’m so glad you were born!” Our rector, the Rev. Beth Fain, exclaimed this, shining with authenticity and her signature ...
Sacred Circles, Lasting Impact: Honoring Early Childhood Leaders
“Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.” – Psalm 127:1 I am Donna Sweeting, and ...
The Vigil of the First Day of School
I have never met a first day of school that did not make me cry. I have been both a ...
Signs of Belonging: Remembering Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle
Every family has its own private language. I don’t mean regional dialects or local pronunciations, but entirely unique inventions. Those ...
The Simple, Deceitless Faith of Saint Bartholomew
Saint Bartholomew is one of Christ’s twelve apostles whose story leaves us with more questions than answers. He is mentioned ...
When Walls are Good: Building Routines Like Nehemiah’s Wall
About two weeks ago, my husband and I began talking about getting our soon-to-be 6th grader, Jon, back into school ...
Neighborhood Saints
"I imagine God as a silver mist that’s everywhere," said one daughter at the kitchen table. Her little sister immediately disagreed: ...
Looking Beyond the Blessed Virgin Mary’s Purity
Some traditions about Mary, the Mother of God, elevate her purity and virtues to an almost divine level. I first ...
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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 ...
Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
While some saints are obscure enough that we must pause to recall who they were and what they did, most ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...