Category: Reflections

Thursday Reflection reminds me of a favorite experience of 8th grade.   Our English teacher gave us a standing assignment:  write or speak about a subject of your […]

Mary Magdalene is probably one of the most versatile and controversial people in the Bible.She’s been seen as the sorrowful sinner, the Apostle to the Apostles, Jesus’s wife/girlfriend, […]

This week I am sharing a blog from Grow Christians. It is too good to keep to myself. If you appreciate it, I encourage you to sign up […]

“The people stand or kneel.”  This is a favorite rubric in the Book of Common Prayer, rubrics being our directions for worship.   When included in the 1979 […]

Going about my day I can easily forget the flooding in Yellowstone, hungry children, mass shootings of other people just going about their day, and gruesome wars.  I […]

Someone I know well sent me a beautiful blog post about gardens planted for future pleasure. * The post, as is this one, is about a lot more. […]

Offering thoughts and prayers in the face of tragedy does not cut it anymore.  From what many people see, thoughts and prayers do not change anything.  Yet I […]

This Feast of the Ascension comes one day after the second death anniversary of George Floyd, a murder which showed such flagrant disregard for Floyd’s life as a […]

 Sunday is Rogation Sunday, the sixth Sunday of Easter and before the Feast of the Ascension.  In our Episcopal-Anglican tradition this holiday is a time for blessing the […]

“By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:35 I long to be identified as Christian, as a […]