Day: January 29, 2017

Beatitudes in music

Listen to this choral interpretation of the Beatitudes titled Bonhoeffer, written by Thomas Lloyd, Director of Music at the Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral which has been nominated for a Grammy for Best Choral Performance

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Called to dinner, together

A few weeks after our return from Alaska, I heard about a 15-year-old girl who had spent a week in the homeless shelter for teens in Portland… After work that afternoon, with my newly re-expanded notion of family buzzing annoyingly near my left ear, I marched out to the deck where my husband had started happy hour. Our nest had emptied four years before…
“Here’s the thing …” I began.
Within a week I was learning to unbraid hair and dancing in the kitchen to hip-hop. After raising boys, I was thrilled to suddenly find this brave, resilient young woman at the counter making waffles with me.

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from the Daily sip: Bluebells and blood

The small sea of Virginia Bluebells near the river behind Thomas Jefferson’s home seemed like a carpet of baby-blue and pale green to me in my first year of ordained ministry with fresh, jet-black shirts, optimism and a brand-new cassock.

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