Joy Stirred Up
A Sermon by Jayan Koshy for the Third Sunday of Advent (Year B) My Indian grandmother is the one who taught me to love the Psalms. Every morning Ammachi […]
Laughter Together
A Sermon by Ailsa Schmidt for the 3rd Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 7, Year A) at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church (St. Paul, MN) In today’s reading from Genesis, […]
Trinitarian Survival: Create, Improvise, Trust
by The Rev. Craig Lemming “…do not fear, for I am with you, do not be afraid, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, […]
The body is resilient. But, the Body is not well.
By the Reverend Jered Weber-Johnson “I believe that the community – in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures – is the smallest unit of health and that […]
HAIR, NAILS AND THOMAS MERTON
I am a girly-girl. I like hair products. I like dipping manicures. I like shopping. I like dressing up. There is none of this now, and I can’t believe how […]
Together in the Presence of Almighty God
“Together in the Presence of Almighty God” Why do you go to church? Not in a grand, theological sense. No, I mean: when the alarm goes off on Sunday morning, […]
HOW DO PEOPLE HEAL?
Thinking about masks, ventilators, nurses and the unbelievable degree of change in two weeks. I saw this on the internet and forgot to copy the source. I am indebted […]
Imago Dei: Be Creative
I love Russian Religious Philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev (b. March 18, 1874 – d. March 24, 1948) – a fellow Pisces, whose birthday I celebrated with Penelope the boxer dog on […]
In these days
The other day in a conversation with a friend in a video chat (as are all conversations these days it seems), both of us were wrestling with the incomprehensible reality […]
We won’t “see you in church” but you’ll see us!
For 2000 years, Christians have gathered to worship God. they have met in private homes, in cemeteries, in structures of all types, in prisons, in schools, on the battlefield, in […]
