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Spiritual Keys of Liberation

January 31, 2021 By Erin Jean Warde Leave a Comment

Today we celebrate the feast day of Saint Sam Shoemaker, Episcopal priest and deeply influential voice within the Alcoholics Anonymous community.

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Filed Under: Saints, Spiritual Practices Tagged With: alcohol, cloud of witnesses, sobriety, theology

Outward and Visible Signs of Friendship

January 12, 2021 By Erin Jean Warde 1 Comment

Saint Aelred of Rievaulx is known for his work on spiritual friendship. What a time to be confronted with the idea of spiritual friendship, when friendship might feel like the furthest-away love we are feeling.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: cloud of witnesses, coronavirus, friendship

Hoping for an Enlargement of Vision

January 9, 2021 By Sara Irwin Leave a Comment

Stretching the confines of what was possible for women’s leadership, Julia Chester Emery’s work changed the church and the world in her decades long ministry.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: cloud of witnesses, coronavirus, The Episcopal Church, United Thank Offering

Holy contradictions: commemorating Thomas Merton

December 10, 2020 By Mary Lee Wile 3 Comments

Back when my middle-aged sons were little boys, another young mom from church handed me a copy of Thomas Merton’s Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander, […]

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Filed Under: Prayer, Saints Tagged With: cloud of witnesses, grandparenting, Merton, Prayer, retreat

Margery Kempe’s Devils and Demons

November 9, 2020 By Erin Jean Warde Leave a Comment

Today we observe the commemoration of Saint Margery Kempe, a presence within the Christian faith and life for a variety of reasons, not least of which how well her wailing was known to the people in her vicinity.

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All Saints: Bound by Water

November 1, 2020 By Dorian Del Priore Leave a Comment

A few years ago, I ran across a video of a toddler playing in the rain for the first time. As someone who loves the rain, I was immediately captivated.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Saints Tagged With: All Saints' Day, baptism, cloud of witnesses, Feast Days

Thomas Cranmer’s Steadfast Faith

October 16, 2020 By Kit Lonergan Leave a Comment

“Pizza is my favorite food, too.”

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: anglican communion, Book of Common Prayer, cloud of witnesses, martyrdom, Thomas Cranmer

Saint Teresa, the Cloud Of Witnesses, and Chronic Pain

October 15, 2020 By Erin Jean Warde Leave a Comment

When I was 11 years old, I began having head splitting aches.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: cloud of witnesses, pain, patron saints, teresa of avila

Seeing Humanity in the Saints We Don’t Like

September 30, 2020 By Ryan Kuratko 2 Comments

If Jerome is right, and if you and I are going to be friends in the course of this post, I should start by being honest. I don’t really like Jerome.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: cloud of witnesses, disagreement, saints

Finding Phoebe Between Longing and Frustration

September 3, 2020 By Sara Irwin Leave a Comment

For Phoebe, as for many biblical women, we are left to construct and imagine with the barest of scraps of insight.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: cloud of witnesses, deacon, phoebe, St. Paul, women

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