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

We love rules. There is great safety in rules. The lawyers and the Pharisees in this gospel passage were not evil or sadistic people; they were faithful followers of the rules—just like you and me. Rules make our world orderly and safe: Think of traffic a....(View...

Luke’s image of Jesus as a mother hen is the one I most cherish. As a mother, I feel viscerally the desire to draw the beloved bodies of my children into the safety of my arms—to hide under the shadow of my wings those warm precious bodies to whom my own body has...

From the Archives: December 1, 1955Let us think today of one great truth: People have learned to live together. Sometimes the lesson has been poorly learned; sometimes, there have been wars on a large scale and strife on a small scale. But m....(View this reading and...

Ours is a God who planted the islands, birthed the sea, and filled the deep with huge sea monsters—all for the sport of it. If God has taken such pleasure in fashioning all living things, imagine the pleasure God must have taken—and continues to take—in you and...

For those of you reading this in the United States, today is Election Day. By tonight we will know who the president will be for the next four years. No matter where you place yourself on the political spectrum, this will be a momentous day.What better time to be...

Christians have relied on symbols as long as we have existed. A fish for believers, a key for Peter, a book and a sword for Paul, a lamb draped over Agnes’s arm. We know martyrs by the palm branches they clutch. Palms are an ancient symbol of victory and carry the...

The day I went to the local tailor to be measured for my first cassock was like an introduction into a secret world. The workshop was full of obscure articles of clerical haberdashery, most much fancier than the simple black wool cassock I was seeking. I marveled at...