“So much gardening activity happens on our knees, in the position of prayer and supplication. I kneel to weed, plant and harvest and often find myself meditating and praying. If I am troubled by some seemingly insurmountable problem, there is no better place to thrash it out than kneeling in the garden. If I am irritable or depressed, there is no better therapy than weeding.”
“Most importantly, God is love. Learning what that means is a life-long study. It isn’t warm feelings and the removal of stumbling blocks from our paths. It is a profound showing up for the essence of who we are.”
Special guest Maya Little-Saña joins discuss the story of Jesus’ resurrection appearance to the disciples from this week’s Gospel
We do some venerating before we continue to talk about what the BCP catechism has to say about Jesus.
You believed you would be welcome and safe in a country full of others yearning to breathe free.
You are not welcome by all in this country. You are not safe because of our faces.
Maybe they hate our faces because we remind them of what they used to be and are afraid of becoming again.
So, what do we do right now?
“In church, we are taught that Mary chose the better part, sitting and learning from the Master while he was on earth. At that time, the disciples didn’t know Jesus would soon be gone, but we benefit from knowledge in retrospect. It makes all the difference.”
Biden reverses course on refugee cap after faith groups, in The Episcopal Church, express outrage.
The Rt. Rev. Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows, bishop of Indianapolis, has written a response to this morning’s mass shooting at a FedEx facility near the Indianapolis airport
“I’ll admit it wasn’t until after becoming Christian that I truly began to examine the structural evils of the present day, and how Christianity has played a part in them. But by then, something had changed in me: Christianity was my home.”