The Righteous Gentiles were an example of what one person, or one small group could do to help others. Whether they were practicing Christians or not, they exemplified not just Christian values but also the commandments of God given to the Jews themselves.
Music is part of our lives, and part of our faith tradition. Johnson understood this as he spoke of the songs of his people, the music of unheralded bards whose names are known to God alone but whose music still echoes in our hearts and minds.
So many lessons, most especially remaining faithful to God and not building our own kingdoms or following those who seek to do that very thing.
We ourselves are icons – temples pointing toward God. Quirky and mixed up as we are, we still belong to the body of Christ, and God will use us whenever God can.
After her death we learned that for the entire time she was working with the lowliest of sufferers she felt an absence of God’s presence in her life that left her in agonizing desolation.
by Maria Evans Readings for the feast day of Jackson Kemper, First Missionary Bishop in the United States Exodus 15:22-25 Psalm 67 1
by Linda Ryan Commemoration of Harriet Starr Cannon, Religious Esdras 2:15-24 There are a group of books in the middle of Episcopal Bibles (and
Once upon a time there was a man and wife and who were expecting a baby. They had to make a trip to another town
We can even be consumed by rage or by fear. But Christ comes along, invited or not, recognized or not, just like the sunrise comes. Like the prickly old bottle brush pine needles, we are often not very helpful to the process.
John and Charles Wesley longed that the hearts of all with whom they talked would be opened to that immediate and mind-boggling primal relationship.