
Speaking to the Soul: Scarcity and fear or abundance and love?
Is there a time you’ve reacted from your old pattern of scarcity and fear, only to have been handed back abundance and love?

Is there a time you’ve reacted from your old pattern of scarcity and fear, only to have been handed back abundance and love?

Whether I need healing or curing or just some peace, I can look to the centurion as an example of taking problems to Jesus and letting him solve them.

Episcopal Café’s former editor, Jim Naughton, is raising funds for Episcopal Relief and Development running with the House of Deputies team. The Café urges you

Feast day of John XXIII -elected to be a “stop-gap” pope who would reign for a short, uneventful time, he surprised everyone by convening the Second Vatican Council, an assemblage out of which came breath-taking new understandings, not only for the Catholic church but for all of us.

Evil has met its match. God’s unconquerable love is revealed in the astounding identity of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the Savior of the World.

By comparing Mary’s visit to Elizabeth with David bringing the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem we recognize that Mary is the unseen ark who carries the living word of God.

She was convicted as a heretic and burned at the stake in 1431. Twenty-five years later, her case was appealed and the Pope declared her to have been falsely accused. Almost 500 years later, she was canonized as a saint.

“Abide in me.” What an invitation! In the abundant, generous, all-seeing soul of Jesus there is space, ample room, and each of us can occupy a permanent place there. That is where we belong.

As we pray the Creed this Trinity Sunday, as we say: “I believe in the Holy Spirit,” we proclaim that there is a living God infused in us propelling us forward in his service. We declare that in the Spirit we are born again… that we are one with The Three.

Bottom line: the Archbishop of Canterbury has not approved a primatial oversight scheme for the secessionist Diocese of South Carolina.