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Following Jonathan Daniels’ Through Pilgrimage

August 14, 2022 By Ben Rockwell Leave a Comment

Growing up when and where I did, racism wasn’t something that was necessarily talked about.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: civil rights, martyrdom, pilgrimage, racial justice, saints

Saint Lawrence: Reminding Us of the True Treasures of the Church

August 10, 2022 By Tim Gavin Leave a Comment

Since Lawrence was the chief financial officer in Rome, he was given the option by the Roman prefect to surrender the “treasures of the church” and receive his freedom or resist and be put to death.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: discipleship, gospel, martyrdom, poor, saints

Celebrating Those Who Welcome

June 22, 2022 By Ben Rockwell 2 Comments

At the end of last year my family and I made a move to a new part of the country, to a new diocese, to a new church.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: hospitality, martyrdom, saints

Observing the Feast of Saint Stephen by Doing

December 26, 2021 By Ryan Kuratko Leave a Comment

I first learned of Stephen, as I suspect many of us do, via Wenceslas and his walk over deep, crisp, and even snow. In that lovely song, Stephen serves largely as the backdrop for an allegory about kingship.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Christmas, Feast Days, martyrdom, St. Stephen

Margaret, Margaret, and Anne: Heroes of the Reformation

August 30, 2021 By Elizabeth Brignac 2 Comments

It is a sad historical irony that the religion we built as a response to someone whose second commandment is “Love one another as I have loved you” has, over the centuries, divided us violently, often to the point of killing each other.

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Filed Under: Saints Tagged With: Church of England, martyrdom, Reformation, saints

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

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

Martyrs of the Sudans and Small Incarnations

May 16, 2020 By Bingham Powell Leave a Comment

When I was in high school, we moved to the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia, which had a long-term companion relationship with the Episcopal Church of Sudan.

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Filed Under: Liturgical Year, Saints Tagged With: cloud of witnesses, coronavirus, incarnation, martyrdom, sudan, theology

Perpetua’s Challenge to Rethink Adulthood

March 7, 2020 By Ryan Kuratko 2 Comments

When did you become an adult? Was there a moment, an inbreath as a child followed by a grownup outbreath?

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: adulthood, cloud of witnesses, martyrdom, young adults

The Scholl siblings’ faithful courage to do what’s right

February 22, 2020 By Bingham Powell 3 Comments

The story of Hans and Sophie Scholl is a powerful story of faith and courage.

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Filed Under: Parenting, Saints Tagged With: baptismal covenant, courage, Faith, martyrdom

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