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 […]
Joan of Arc: Visionary & Child
The story of Jeanne d’Arc (anglicized as Joan of Arc) is a complicated one. We commemorate her as a Visionary, as she quite literally relied […]
Generosity for Teenagers
Like us as parents, Lydia orchestrated a whole circus of household, professional, and local matters.
Thurgood Marshall’s Sacred Foundation
Whenever I see Thurgood Marshall’s name show up on our calendar of Lesser Feasts and Fasts, I can’t help but start humming, “I Sing a […]