Forward Day By Day – February 5, 2020

Abraham hears a call to sacrifice his son, and he believes this call is from God. Abraham has an unshakable faith and knows God will always provide for him and his family. Abraham listens deeply, pausing each step of the way to Moriah to ask: Really, God? Are you sure...

Forward Day By Day – February 4, 2020

A little fish spent its life asking other fish where to find the ocean. An ancient sea creature told the little fish that it was, in fact, swimming in the ocean. The little fish couldn’t accept that this was the ocean and continued to believe that all it was doing was...

Lenten Study on Environmental Justice

Join the Environmental Commission of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana for a Lenten Study on Environmental Justice. We will read Care for Creation: A Franciscan Spirituality of the Earth. Every week during Lent, a member of the Environmental Commission will reflect...

Forward Day By Day – February 3, 2020

What is the work of God today? Prayer is the training ground for our life of faith, and it calls us to be emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually involved in God’s work in the world. Prayers are not simply to be said or thought—they are to be lived out with the...

Forward Day By Day – February 2, 2020

Over and over, God in scripture says, See, I am sending my messenger. Over and over, we say, Here comes the messenger, let us kill the messenger. The messages are hard to hear. The consequences are hard to swallow.Malachi calls the children of Israel to ….(View...

Forward Day By Day – February 1, 2020

Abraham, Sarah, and Jesus call us to pay attention to the whens and wheres of our lives. When will we love God with our heart, mind, and soul? When will we believe the promises of God? Where are the places we need to bring the love of God? Where are we seeking and...

Forward Day By Day – January 31, 2020

In our desire to come out on top, we often try to drag God onto one side or another of our worldly squabbles. Things are not that different in Jesus’ day. Jesus flees the attempt by the crowd to make him into a worldly king just as he resisted this same line of...

Forward Day By Day – January 30, 2020

From The Archives: September 27, 1938 When there is a great thing to do, it is the great thing that counts. But though great things make up the rare crises in life, it is the long chain of little things that lead up and prepare the way for t….(View this reading...

Forward Day By Day – January 29, 2020

If you want to experience the truth of this verse, visit a nursing home. I spend time in one weekly, bringing communion and prayers to the residents.Wealth and poverty. Beauty and plainness. Prestige and humility. It’s all stripped away in the final stage...