The Epistle to Lottie June (on the Occasion of Her Baptism)
Jo, a servant and follower of Jesus Christ and guided by the Holy Spirit, To Lottie June, a little kid whose brilliant headgear stands as...
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- Jun 13, 2019
- 4 min
Pride and Pentecost
I don't remember this ever happening before, but Pride and Pentecost are on the same weekend this year. Pride and Pentecost--wow!...
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- Jun 4, 2019
- 3 min
Sister-Saver: Sheherazade
Scheherazade, I heard a radio host say the other day, was an advocate for women. How's that again, I thought? Scheherazade was the...
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- May 17, 2019
- 2 min
"Save Me from Bloody Men" Redux
Life is funny--as if I'm saying something you don't already know! There was a church I served for a decade a decade ago and each...
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- Apr 25, 2019
- 3 min
Sanctuary?
Somebody asked me what I thought about the fire that very nearly destroyed Notre Dame Cathedral, but there is no easy answer. Because...
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- Apr 23, 2019
- 3 min
Woven Witness
Women's History Month has concluded (with the same small fanfare that inaugurated it) and you'll get no flack from me about that. It's...
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- Mar 9, 2019
- 3 min
Just Kon-Do It!
I stood in front of my newly cleaned refrigerator a few nights ago admiring the gleaming shelves emptied now of past-due holiday...
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- Feb 27, 2019
- 3 min
"Save Me from Bloody Men" - Psalm 59:2
The other day I was talking to a retired pastor who sings in the same chorus I do. “Remember the weird things you used to get in your...
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- Feb 13, 2019
- 3 min
Valentines Abounding!
I In a church I once served, we held a Sunday evening service that looked nothing like a regular church service and during it we also did...
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- Jan 31, 2019
- 4 min
Not What She Seems
Story from the first church I served. The parish register: The parish register is an enormous book in which church membership, weddings,...
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- Jan 4, 2019
- 3 min
Flight Risks
If you were to come to the church I serve, you would find that it is not a quiet place. There are several reasons for this. Two years...
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- Dec 18, 2018
- 2 min
A Sestina for Saint Lucy
A sestina is a mad-crazy French poetic form--thirty lines with six repeated words that end each line. Makes no sense. I love it. It's a...
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- Dec 6, 2018
- 3 min
Red Herring
A few weeks ago I colored my hair red. I had always loved my mother’s and my sister’s red hair and my other sister’s ashy blonde. As the...
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- Nov 28, 2018
- 3 min
When Love is Not Loving
A dozen years ago or so it was well-known that the Albany, New York Episcopal Diocese tended not to ordain women. But I was scheduled to...
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- Nov 15, 2018
- 2 min
First Thanksgivings
The very first Thanksgiving I spent away from my family, I was living in Kurt Cobain’s home-town of Aberdeen, Washington. It was not a...
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- Oct 28, 2018
- 9 min
Tree of Life - sermon, St. John's-on-Sand-Creek
I hope and I pray that the majority of Christian pastors who put their well-crafted sermons to bed on Wednesday or Thursday afternoon or...
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- Oct 18, 2018
- 3 min
Travel Restrictions
Nearly a dozen years ago, the mother of the man I was seeing died pretty suddenly. We made haste for Pittsburgh, booking plane tickets...
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- Oct 4, 2018
- 3 min
Tied Up in "Nots"
The day before Christine Blasey Ford and Brett Kavenaugh went before the Senate Judicial Committee, I went to meet a friend for coffee....
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- Sep 15, 2018
- 3 min
Hope = Things Done Together?
The thing about getting older is that you rue the return of the weird things. Such as: I remember when macramé plant hangers and table...
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- Sep 7, 2018
- 3 min
New Hope
Seventh grade was a formative time in my development. In addition to the fact that my mother used to make me drink hot prune juice as a...