Julie over at RevGals asks for this Friday Five, we fill the Web with light, in photographs, poetry, scripture, or whatever else brings light to a troubled world. Ever a shutterbug, I've recently taken up actually learning photography, which is all about light: the interplay of light and shadow; compensating for the lack of it; …
Tag: faith
Ministry Five
The RevGals do a Friday Five, but this one is my own on the eve of the eve of my parish's Ministry Faire this Sunday. Completely unsolicited, here ya go people of SSSJ and all people of The Way, here are five reasons to be involved in active ministry. Washing coffee pots brings about personal, spiritual …
The Maundy Thursday Cowboy
Foot washing. Ugh. This was the task assigned to the lowliest servant of a home in ancient times in lands where people wore sandals and streets were filthy. When I visited Pompeii, I noted areas along streets where there were little speed-bumps, taller stones its citizens had used for crossing the street and thus avoiding the filth strewn in …
Just like that, a Moment of Grace
It was the penises that pushed me over the edge. This endless campaign year which apparently started before my birth and looks set to continue until well after I am dust has been so ugly. Vacuous debates with no resemblance to actual discourse; or meaningless, nasty debates in which no actual policy is discussed and …
Mark 2:5 & Everything We Think We Know about Addiction might be Wrong
Now those are friends. Those are the friends you call at midnight when you've just been dumped, or need bail money. Those friends are there for you, even if they have to vandalize a house to be so.
Lenten Food
I couldn't help thinking of my late friend, Jeff, this morning as I ate my breakfast. It was delicious: half a whole wheat bagel generously spread with home-made hummus, topped with thinly sliced cucumber and grape tomato halves, and sprinkled with home-made zesty Italian dressing. So flavorful and healthy! Sometimes I chop up a few …
A Lesson in Graciousness
It's Monday. Yesterday, despite having recently been dragged to see both Room and Carol, Paul took me to the glory that is Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. The Carolina Panthers did not win the Superbowl, and I'm nursing a case of chips and Rotel cheese dip, shrimp and cocktail sauce (extra hot), buffalo chicken tenders …
Anglicans and The Three-Legged Stool
I am no biblical scholar; however, I admit to being an expert on falling down, both metaphorically and actually. The concept of the "three-legged stool" always made sense to me because I understand what happens when one rests too much weight on one leg of a chair - boom, crash, another two weeks of watching my …
Foundation/The Village/Sunday School
There we were: my partner-in-Sunday School-teaching-crime, Arthur, our solitary student, and me. As we peppered him with questions about the text of the day, this not shy middle school boy said the only logical thing there was to say, "Argh.....! Don't quiz me!" And we weren't really quizzing, but I'm sure it feels like a quiz when …
My STAR Word… Oh Myyyyy….
What a great Epiphany at St. Simon & St. Jude! It began, as all fun things should, with a feast, specifically, a "Feast from the East," the East being taken a bit tongue in cheek. I'm not sure from what part of the East Party Potatoes come but, in the words of Liz Lemon, "I …
Southern Fried Californian 