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Feast of the Holy Sovereigns

November 28, 2019 By Emily Rutledge Leave a Comment

Sovereign (noun): a supreme ruler, especially a monarch

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Saint Francis’ Reminder

October 4, 2019 By Carrie Willard 1 Comment

Anyone who visits our house might guess at why we love Saint Francis of Assisi, known for his love of animals.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: animals, fear, Jesus, Lesser Feasts and Fasts, St. Francis

Søren Kierkegaard and Lived Experience

September 8, 2019 By Ryan Kuratko 1 Comment

Teenagers often believe that they are the first humans ever to have discovered sex. The world-altering swells of feeling and emotion—or the seeming opposite of being let down by the whole experience—feels as revolutionary to each of us as any human walking on the moon.

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The Purposeful Conviction of Florence Nightingale

August 12, 2019 By Ann Benton Fraser 1 Comment

The plague hit our family vacation hard this summer. It was a punishing stomach bug that took down young and old and came back for more.

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Joachim and Anne, Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary

July 26, 2019 By Sara Irwin 5 Comments

Today marks the feast of Joachim and Anne, the parents of Mary and the grandparents of Jesus. They don’t appear in canonical scriptures; lacking source material, generations of Christians have looked for them in themselves.

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Faith, Science, and the Coolness of God

May 23, 2019 By Drew Bunting Leave a Comment

Listen, I’m not saying I once elevated a communion wafer with a robot arm. That would have been Inappropriate. People would be rightly concerned that such irreverence would cause Jesus to jump out of that wafer as fast as he jumped in.

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Let’s talk about prayer power with Harriet Starr Cannon

May 7, 2019 By Ryan Kuratko 1 Comment

Our calendar commends us today to celebrate the life of Harriet Starr Cannon and her founding of the Community of St. Mary, the first officially […]

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Living as a Microphone for God

March 24, 2019 By Allison Sandlin Liles 2 Comments

We know Oscar Romero because of his outspoken liberation theology, but that is not what marked the majority of his ordained life.

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Everyone has a past, Photini allowed hers to reflect light

February 26, 2019 By Kit Lonergan 1 Comment

I’ve commented to friends once too often that I am deeply grateful that social media and camera phones weren’t a thing when I was in college.

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Walking the Way of Love with Absalom Jones

February 13, 2019 By Chris Decatur 2 Comments

Today, we remember Absalom Jones, who was born into a world that didn’t see him deserving of love; a world that didn’t see him or his worth. Absalom Jones was born a slave in Delaware in 1746.

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Filed Under: Saints, Way of Love Tagged With: Absalom Jones, African-Americans, justice, Lesser Feasts and Fasts, love, racial justice, The Episcopal Church, Way of Love

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