Category: Daily Episcopalian

Part 1: A little child shall lead them: a year after Sandy Hook

Only a month after her death, Ana Grace’s father, Jimmy Greene, was able to rise up and claim the need to “come together on issues that are not political but that are, above

all, human issues that affect us all as human beings.” … Alex Haller, an uncle of Noah Pozner who was also killed, “We have to make something positive come of this, and I feel a need to advocate for change right away… To me, this is now a lifelong mission, to make children safer and to stop mass shootings.”

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Herself: Our Lady of Guadalupe

Guadalupe bears and reveals a God uncontainable by religious orthodoxy or national borders; a God who shows up everywhere, showering us with life as unexpected as roses in December, making all things new.

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A Pastoral Paradox

In a more provocative moment, I recently posted on Facebook that when confronted with the word “pastoral” I am increasingly tempted to wonder — if not ask out loud — if “co-dependent” is what is often really meant. It seems that “pastoral” can be code for mere coddling bad behavior, or simply leaving things dangerously alone.

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Delighting in whales

by Ann Fontaine Yonder is the great and wide sea with its living things too many to number, * creatures both small and great. There

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Last words

by Linda Ryan Now these be the last words of David. David the son of Jesse said, and the man who was raised up on

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Religious tattoos

I know with my own tattoos, I was searching for exactly what we proclaim when a new baptismal candidate is sealed with holy oil and the sign of the Cross–a way that every time I saw it, I knew in my heart of hearts I truly was marked as Christ’s own.

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