COME TO THE TABLE Mary Magdalene's encounter with the risen Christ in the garden connects to Jesus's ministry during his life: his embrace of and love for [...]

STRANGERS IN A STRANGE LAND God repeatedly call us to care for the foreigner and stranger...but also calls us to be "resident strangers" in our own land [...]

WHO ARE YOU? Jesus' test in the wilderness was not so much about what he would do is about who he would be, we face the same [...]

FACING THE WOES In fact, much as we see the sorrow of the world, many of us don't want it to change too much. Practicing compassion is [...]

CANDLEMAS There is latent light and promise in the smallest things, as recognized by the watchful and faithful Anna and Simeon. [...]

FOLLOWING THE SAINTS AND HEARING MY CALL January and February celebrate many beacons of Christian faith, including Florence  Li Tim-oi, Absalom Jones, and Anna Julia Haywood Cooper. [...]

PREPARING FOR SCANDAL Mary's visit to her cousin Elizabeth is a tender - and shocking - encounter between two pregnant women rejoicing in their coming babies, and [...]

WHAT SHOULD WE DO? John the Baptist's response to repentant sinners asking "what should we do?" has much in common with lessons learned in kindergarten: be generous, [...]

PRAYER FOR PREPARATION The Collect for Purity is an ancient prayer of the church that matches John the Baptist's summon that we go into the wilderness of [...]

NAMING WHERE WE ARE Advent, the beginning of the church year, invites us into growing dark and quiet so that we can say where we are, rather [...]