Sunday, July 22, 2018
Mary Magdalene…. Who was she? Who are we? Feast Day of Mary Magdalene Pure and simple, Mary Magdalene has been made to be what men needed her to be. That doesn’t make her a sinner or a saint, it makes her a woman. Millions of pixels have...
Saturday, July 21, 2018
Standing in the center of the dog park, my cell phone in my hand, I heard yet another piece of bad news. In a single afternoon, I learned that my body was falling apart. As if calling to give me the weather report, the latest person on the phone had informed me that I...
Saturday, July 21, 2018
Last week, for the first time since before the turn of the century (I’ve always wanted to say that), I left the state of Arizona to travel. It meant leaving my cats for four days, the longest I had ever been separated from them since their birth 11-1/2 years...
Friday, July 20, 2018
The Aug. 5 edition of The Living Church is available online to registered subscribers. The cover story reports on one topic that both houses ultimately adopted with great enthusiasm: the return of the Episcopal Church of Cuba’s return to the fold of the Episcopal...
Friday, July 20, 2018
Marc Levy writes for Cambridge Day: Lesley University has purchased the remaining 4.4 acres of the Episcopal Divinity School property near Harvard Square, including five historic buildings and the remaining half of a library that the university had shared with the...
Friday, July 20, 2018
It’s not a stretch to take care of our friends when they fall on hard times. “Tell me what you need,” we say to the neighbor who’s recovering from surgery. “I’ll be happy to give you a ride,” we tell the colleague whose car broke down on the way to work. But...
Friday, July 20, 2018
Readings for the feast day of four pioneers of emancipation: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Amelia Bloomer, Sojourner Truth, and Harriet Ross Tubman, Friday, July 20, 2018: Psalm 146 Wisdom 7:24-28 1 Peter 4:10-11 Luke 11:5-10 Our first reading today is from the...
Thursday, July 19, 2018
Le texte qui suit est le sermon que l’Évêque Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, Diocèse épiscopal d’Indianapolis, a prononcé le 12 juillet 2018 à la Convention générale. Au nom du Dieu unique, saint et vivant. Veuillez vous asseoir. Et bien, bonsoir les saints ! Comment...
Thursday, July 19, 2018
General Convention has added Deaconess Anna Alexander, who began her ministry at Good Shepherd in Pennick, Georgia, to the Episcopal Church’s calendar of saints. The Diocese of Georgia’s deputation celebrates Deaconness Anna Alexander as a new saint of the Episcopal...
Thursday, July 19, 2018
The Rt. Rev. William H. Love, Bishop of Albany, reflects on the decisions of the 79th General Convention: On a positive note, an amended version of A068 was passed, thus preserving the 1979 Book of Common Prayer for at least the near term. There had been an attempt to...
Thursday, July 19, 2018
One of my favorite statements by conservationist John Muir came from his defense of Hetch Hetchy Valley near Yosemite. “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.”...
Thursday, July 19, 2018
Feast Day of St. Macrina the Younger Matthew 11:27-30 When I spend a good chunk of time in contemplative prayer, I wind up being more grounded in what is truly important. This is not because my prayer time is filled with blissful awareness of God. For...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
The slave balcony at St. Mark’s Church-Lappans | bit.ly/2O0mTll Professor Emilie Amt is the recipient of the 2018 Nelson R. Burr Prize from the Historical Society of the Episcopal Church. Amt is Hildegarde Pilgram Professor of History at Hood College and chairs the...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
[Episcopal News Service] Respondiendo al llamado del obispo primado Michael Curry a “seguir el camino de Jesús”, los diputados y obispos de la 79ª. Convención General de la Iglesia Episcopal, reunidos del 5 al 13 de julio en Austin, Texas, actuaron en un número récord...
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Having come to New Orleans for spring break, my four students and I were assigned to a larger group from another university to gut houses all around the city. Hurricane Katrina had hit roughly seven months before, but it might as well have been yesterday, given the...
