Andrew Brown tells the story of Dorothy Ann Holm who wrote apparently random strings of capital letter on 20 cards before she died. It turned out to be a code of the heart.
The Rev. Malcolm Marler, director of Pastoral Care at University of Alabama – Birmingham Hospital, was ordained as an Episcopal priest on January 15 in UAB Hospital’s North Pavilion Atrium by by the Rt. Rev. Key Sloan, Bishop of Alabama.
Katie Heaney talks of her “non-dating” dating memoir, “Never Have I Ever”, with Salon’s Anna North. Here’s the first question from the interview:
If you haven’t yet made the acquaintance of Nadia Bolz-Weber, pastor of the House for All Sinners and Saints in Denver, and author of Pastrix,
World leaders attended a memorial service in South Africa earlier today.
by Deirdre Good When we ignore or gloss over major aspects of a person like C. S. Lewis—roots, religious affiliation, ethnicity—we diminish our own understanding
Fifty years ago, the Rev. William Holmes stood in the pulpit of his Methodist Church in Dallas, Texas, and spoke hard truths to his community and avoided comfortable platitudes.
Richard Burridge, Dean of King’s College London and author of the acclaimed “What Are the Gospels?” Pope Francis awarded him the prize on October 26 in Rome.
Gleason wrote, “Life is driven by renewal, the persistent energy of rebirth that makes all things new. Pain and loss and death are inevitable, but each and every time they happen, there will be new life. Death happens, but it is never the final answer.
“There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.” Wendell Berry