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Talking about Policing on the Feast of Saint Michael

September 29, 2021 By Ben Day 4 Comments

Saint Michael and All angles can be an uncomfortable feast.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, police, St. Michael, St. Michael and All Angels

Jonathan Daniels and Risking One’s Life for the Gospel

August 14, 2021 By Erin Jean Warde Leave a Comment

I like many have begun, far later than I have an excuse for, to reckon with the history of what I once called home.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, books, discipleship, Martin Luther King, martyrdom, saints, seminary

Knowing and Saying Their Names

May 1, 2021 By Melissa Wilcox 2 Comments

As I sipped my coffee this morning, my son and husband were hunched over the New York Times. We all were discussing the deliberation of the Derek Chauvin trial. Soon we begin listing the recent cases of police brutality in our country.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: baptism, Black Lives Matter, Feast Days, Names, St. Philip & St. James

Preach the truth as if you had a million voices

April 29, 2021 By Tina Clark 4 Comments

In a short life of 33 years, Saint Catherine of Siena never seems to have wasted a moment.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, Catherine Meeks, coronavirus, Godly Play, mystic, parenting, Presiding Bishop Curry

The miter fit her just fine: the Rt. Rev. Barbara C. Harris

March 13, 2021 By Kit Lonergan 5 Comments

Bishop Barbara C. Harris died on March 13th, 2020, where I’m sure God welcomed her with the same words and emotion she shared with a friend upon her entrance into the convention center filled with 8,000 people at her consecration: “What a hell of a welcome!”

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On the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels, We Need These Messengers of Hope

September 29, 2020 By Tina Clark Leave a Comment

When angels appear to people in scripture the first thing they say is, “Do not be afraid!” And that’s what I need to hear today, on the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels. 

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: angels, Black Lives Matter, coronavirus, fear, Feast Days, St. Michael, St. Michael and All Angels

How we talk to our kids about race

July 17, 2020 By Elizabeth Bentrup 5 Comments

“As soon as you’re a parent, you have this fear that you’re going to f*ck it all up.” —Dax Shepard, Armchair Expert, episode 215 Boy, […]

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Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, conversations, parenting, race

Peter and Paul, Black Lives and Gentile Lives

June 29, 2020 By Ryan Kuratko Leave a Comment

Black Lives Matter. Saint Peter and Saint Paul disagreed on much, but this, this, they agreed on: black lives matter. Let’s circle back here in a moment.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Black Lives Matter, racism, St. Paul, St. Peter

Striving for Justice and Peace by Putting One Foot in Front of the Other

June 13, 2020 By Cara Meredith Leave a Comment

Fifty-four years ago, my father-in-law set out to walk 220 miles from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi. Even though the Voting Rights Act of 1965 had passed less than a year earlier, a stronghold of fear still gripped African American voters, especially in the South.

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Filed Under: Discipleship Tagged With: baptismal covenant, Black Lives Matter, peace, racial justice

Saint Columba, the Ascetic Life, and Black Lives

June 9, 2020 By Erin Jean Warde Leave a Comment

Years ago, I helped lead a youth group to Iona, Scotland for a pilgrimage. I remember thinking how great of a gift it was, to travel there in the first place, but also to be celebrating the Eucharist in a chapel at Iona, as well as on its shores.

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Filed Under: Saints, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: Ascetic Life, Black Lives Matter, cloud of witnesses, Iona

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