Year: 2021

Personal Essay: Stephanie Painter

As a kid growing up in church, I experienced the Sunday morning matinee of miseries. My woes included a hard and unforgiving church pew, unbearably tight Mary Jane shoes, and a droning sermon that I never quite understood. After the service, I would take flight, turning my patent leather atrocities into streamlined track shoes as I raced for the church’s playground. But my vigilant mother always swooped in and steered me toward the line in the narthex.

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Mirrors

“No mirror can show our soul and what is in our heart of hearts. A lot of what is there comes out in how we think, act, or talk. In this vein, the Pharisee would come out as someone who was vain and so sure of his status and appearance in the public arena that he didn’t mind reminding God of it. Some would call it out-and-out entitlement. Others might consider it narcissism and egotism.”

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Gregory the Multitasker

“Of particular importance to Episcopalians, he is an index ancestor in the story of Anglican Christianity.  Gregory first encountered people from the British isles as slaves being sold at the Roman slave market.  He was incredibly struck by their pale skin and fine facial features, and likened them to angels.”

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Fragments on Fragments #40: Being Human in a Pandemic

Now is the time. The place in which we are living, this moment which is always passing away, this present is the time to make the choice. Not usually a significant or life-changing choice, but in every moment in which we are awake we are continually choosing how we will live our lives.

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