Author: Jon White

How, then, to reconcile two social needs which seem at odds with each other: a longing for spaces for peace and reflection with the urgency of social justice issues? How can we create spaces for the former without sticking our heads in the sand and ignoring the latter?

Sitting on a wooden pew is fine. Safe. Elegant. But I want my heart to burn within me as I walk with new friends to nowhere in particular and yet arriving.

It grieves me that we put so much effort into the suffering, shame and darkness of Holy week and then just recover, exhausted with Netflix and candy in Easter Week, too exhausted even to unwrap a Cadbury Egg. Easter Monday? What of Monday? What of Tuesday? What of Wednesday of this Easter Week?

On the third morning
The women came first,
Somehow knowing in their wisdom
As women often do!
Anxious with sorrow,

I increasingly feel that I live in a strange land. Political polarization has displaced the mutual respect and compromise essential for democracy to protect the rights of the minority and the majority… Where is the Church, and most particularly The Episcopal Church (TEC), to be found in this strange land?