Saturday, December 5, 2020
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...
Thursday, December 3, 2020
Pictured: (RIght) Marcie Anthony-Courtney and (left) Dianne Gill. The 24th Presentation of Honored Women By the Episcopal Church Women In the Diocese of LouisianaRecognized for her ministry and service in the name of our Lord Jesus ChristAcknowledged at the 133rd ECW...
Thursday, December 3, 2020
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...
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
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...
Tuesday, December 1, 2020
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...
Monday, November 30, 2020
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...
