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[Episcopal News Service] En réponse à l’appel de l’Évêque Primat Michael Curry de « suivre la voie de Jésus », les députés et les évêques, réunis du 5 au 13 juillet à la 79ème Convention générale de l’Église épiscopale à Austin (État du Texas), ont donné suite à un...
[Brotherhood of St. Andrew — Austin, Texas] Jeffrey Butcher crisscrossed the Unites States the last six years, meeting with everyone from the presiding bishop to the Brotherhood of St. Andrew’s smallest chapters. Brotherhood of St. Andrew President Jeff Butcher...
10 Pentecost, July 29 2 Sam. 11:1-15 or 2 Kgs. 4:42-44 Ps.14 or Ps. 145:10-19 • Eph. 3:14-21 • John 6:1-21 “David sent someone to inquire about the woman” (2 Sam. 11:3). He saw her bathing and that she was beautiful, but he knew nothing about her, not even her name....
I was doing my best to keep it together. While my mother lay terminally ill in a hospital nearly three hours away, I was tending to the ordinary business of my life—buying groceries, paying bills, and going to the bank. I was being strong.It was at the drive-in window...
Today is the feast day of Mary Magdalene. So often mentioned and so often misunderstood. The first lesson is from Judith (9:1,11-14), the prayer she makes just before she goes and beheads Holofernes. A marvelous act of espionage and assassination, but not exactly...
“You can’t talk? How can you stand that?” Just watch and see, I wanted to tell my friends. I stood it just fine. For nine successive spring breaks, I traveled to a retreat center in South Texas, where silence was the rule. When I arrived, I shed my watch and took a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
