creation – Episcopal Cafe

The longest night

December 22, 2021 No Comments

… the twilight womb before the birth
of the Christ, all part
and particular to his Incarnation,
this nurturing dark that precedes
the light of the first new day.

Marking time

January 31, 2018 No Comments

Since then, each day comes with its burden of proof: the anniversary of a kiss; the caked-on accretions of a birthday; the unthinkable number of days, weeks, hours that have passed since she died.

Speaking to the Soul: God in Creation

March 18, 2017 6 Comments

We look through telescopes to see if we can find God, but what we find is that the universe is infinitely more expansive, more complex, and more spectacular than we could possibly have ever dreamt,..

Speaking to the Soul: The Singing of the Earth

October 18, 2016 No Comments

We know, that with care, as God’s very example shows us, we can also tend to the Earth lovingly, reverently, and in so doing bring forth blessing over all the Earth, from dawn to dusk, from mountain to valley.

Genesis, gender and justification

August 25, 2016 No Comments

“Children see that there is a difference in our language and in the way we dress. They see gender roles and gender expression. They perceive that we treat people differently, that we use different language for different people, and they ask, “Why?” Do you find it interesting that children have to ask why? That they aren’t born knowing why?”

Speaking to the Soul: Story of a Rock

April 14, 2016 2 Comments

And so is every stone in the desert, created at the beginning of the universe and shaped through countless eons, a particular thing with a history and a relationship to the Creator.

Get outdoors!

May 24, 2015 2 Comments

In the Magazine this month, we’re looking at the experience of God in and through nature. In this piece, Maria Evans reflects on how breaking out of our hermetically sealed, climate-controlled lives now and again is good for the soul.

Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Centering on the Holy Spirit through the Elements of our Blessed Earth

May 24, 2015 2 Comments

In the Magazine this month, we’re looking at the experience of God in and through nature. In this piece, Deborah Lopez offers some thoughts and suggestions for centering prayer on the four primal elements.

Can we inconvenience ourselves a little?

May 10, 2015 6 Comments

At the Magazine, we’ve been looking at insights and reflections on the human (individual and collective) relationship with the created order. That could be nature, the environment, our use of resources, animals, each other, like the creed says – all things seen and unseen. In this piece, Harold Clinehens reminds us that the little things matter – a lot.

Do you believe in climate change?

April 30, 2015 2 Comments

In the Magazine this month we’re exploring our relationship with Creation; all things seen and unseen. In this piece, Craig Foster explores how his vocation has led him to engage in care of the world through Interfaith Power & Light

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