As a female priest in the Episcopal Church, it only takes one comment on Twitter “leaving my bubble” for me to open the app and […]
Noticing God at Home
One of my favorite things to imagine is Jesus and the disciples in their day to day life. I think about this often, because the disciples […]
Hope is a song in a weary throat
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 […]
Irenaeus was having none of it
The Turkish city of Izmir, formerly known as the Greek city of Smyrna, has, due to its location, a crossroads of languages and cultures. Also, […]
Isabel Florence Hapgood’s Labors and Gifts of Love
“What would Kate and Ashley think?” They were middle school daughters of fellow students in my beginning New Testament Greek class. Our professor gave us […]
The Beauty of Doubt
In today’s world of wildly fast innovation, I think there are a few jobs that don’t get the credit they deserve. In particular I’m thinking […]
Relevant and Accessible Christian Formation
Today the Church commemorates Adelaide Teague Case whose life is marked primarily her love of learning, teaching, and Jesus Christ. She was one of those […]
The Journey of Evelyn Underhill
My parish has a spiritual growth program called Wellspring that, according to its mission statement, offers “programs and services (that) foster awareness of God’s presence […]
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 […]