ECW’s “Fishing for Souls” Gathering Brings Women Together in Faith

When we lived in Memphis, Tennessee, our family provided meals and a quiet space for prayer and spiritual guidance for people who didn’t know where else to go. One afternoon, Mom found a man on our front porch. We let him sleep for a while, and when he wo....(View...

When I was a little girl, I was fascinated by C.S. Lewis’s book The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. I was low-key obsessed with how Aslan tore the White Witch to shreds and freed Narnia from her evilness and hate. As I study today’s passage ....(View this reading...

From the Archives: April 14, 1956Do the moral and ethical teachings of Jesus ever frustrate you? They do me. They nearly got me down once. I wanted to be good. I tried to fulfill all the requirements of Christianity. I wanted to be acceptable to God. I can still see...

Fear seizes us in strange ways and times. People around the world are still struggling to cope with all we know and don’t know about COVID-19. However, some beautiful things have happened in the middle of sorrow. Chinese medical supplies arrived in Italy ....(View...

I remember my mother’s voice as she read the news at our breakfast table. Information about the killing of five little Amish girls at their schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, swept across the United States like wildfire. And then a miracle happene....(View...

Some of the most profound experiences I have had of God have been in class discussions or the words of medieval mystics or sitting by hospital beds. But when I try to imagine the presence of God, these aren’t the moments that come to my mind. The truly bre....(View...

Here we are, crossing the threshold of Advent—a season designated for holy waiting. We mark the time until Jesus’ birth with study, prayer, fasting, and acts of charity. We keep awake, trimming the wicks in our lamps and making sure to bring extra oil. ....(View this...

As we slide toward Advent, the lectionary throws us into the midst of the apocalyptic. Much like our time in Revelation earlier this month, the imagery heralding the Coming of the Lord can be both frightening and strange. In our reading from Zechariah, we s....(View...

Frank Wade, a professor of preaching and an Episcopal priest, encourages his students to be as creative as possible in imagining the characters that we don’t get to hear in the Bible. What if there was a girl in another village who couldn’t quite manage the “yes” that...