Paul Jones, whom we commemorate today, came from a family of long-tenured clergy. His grandfather served as the rector of Epiphany Episcopal Church in New […]
Five Ways to Revive Your Family’s Faith This Fall
Oh, I had so many good intentions of staying organized, on task and enriched this summer. Didn’t you? And are you now like me, looking […]
Edith Stein’s Courage to Listen
Edith Stein (Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) was a philosopher, a martyr, a Jew, a Christian, and a prophet. Born into an observant Jewish family in Poland in […]
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 […]
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 […]