Tuesday, December 25, 2018
An angel of the Lord appeared in the middle of nowhere and announced to a group of manual laborers that the great kinsman redeemer and savior of the world had been born. God trusted the word of a young girl, the goodness of a bewildered young man, and the...
Monday, December 24, 2018
Part of my professional church lady life has included praying alongside small children. During the Lord’s Prayer, I once heard a four-year-old pray, “…an’ weed us not into ten stations, but deliber us from eagles…” He was ardent in his prayer, eyes closed, chubby...
Sunday, December 23, 2018
Today’s reading is so singular. Nothing else like this has happened before and will never happen again. I struggle to find myself in this story, to try and fit myself inside of Mary’s or Elizabeth’s experience. Then I remember the women I know—women who have...
Saturday, December 22, 2018
The people to whom Isaiah is speaking have heard the story of the exodus over and over again. They know that the worst that could happen to them as a people and as individuals is to sever the covenant between them and God, to be a people without name or place or...
Friday, December 21, 2018
I don’t know if Thomas missed the memo for the meeting at the clubhouse, or if he was keeping an eye and an ear on what was being said in town about Jesus’ body going missing, or if maybe he just needed some time to himself. Jesus loves Thomas—that’s clear in his...
Thursday, December 20, 2018
“Las copresentadoras del Today Show Hoda Kotb, a la izquierda, y Savannah Guthrie escuchan el 1 de noviembre al obispo primado Michael Curry hablar acerca del poder del amor. Fue una de las muchas entrevistas de prensa que Curry concedió este año. Foto de The Today...
Thursday, December 20, 2018
There’s an early episode of Aaron Sorkin’s masterpiece The West Wing in which one of the senior staff members (Josh) receives special instructions for what to do in case of a major emergency, what we’ve come to call continuity of government. When Josh realizes that no...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
The news is on in the background while I’m writing this to you. The headlines keep breaking my heart. I keep waiting for something to crack open hearts, open eyes, unstop ears, lay ourselves bare to the call of God to do right by each other.And then I remember: God...
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Since the middle of September, I’ve been watching the evening sun sink earlier and earlier. Now, my husband and I drive to work in the dark, and it’s dark when he picks me up to go home at the end of the day. All up and down our rural road, neighbors have put up...
Monday, December 17, 2018
“Today Show” co-hosts Hoda Kotb, left, and Savannah Guthrie listen Nov. 1 as Presiding Bishop Michael Curry talks about the power of love. It was one of many media interviews Curry gave this year. Photo: “The Today Show” [Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church...
