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Several days of listlessly lying around with the rest of the family, all of us having succumbed to the flu, has not produced any great mystical visions or deep thoughts.  In the absence of these, I’m grateful for a resource like the Episcopal Digital Network’s “Sermons That Work.” The Rev. Dr. Joseph Pagano’s sermon for…

Fellow saint and sinner Amy Richter has drawn my attention to an article that appeared in The Huffington Post a few days ago, and has thanked the Fellowship for its early coverage.  Apparently, Amy’s story, “The Ripped, Bikini-Clad Reverend,” which originally appeared in The New York Times Magazine’s April 20 issue, made the cut for The Huff Post’s…

My husband would be the first to tell you I have the directional sense of a squirrel. There is an advantage to this handicap: if my intuition tells me to travel in one direction, I can safely assume that I need to be heading the opposite way. This reality becomes that much more funny when…

Yesterday on the first Sunday of Advent the preacher talked about hope. We all were asked to write down something from our personal lives that makes us hopeless, and then bring those scraps of paper up during Communion; they would be collected at the end of the service and made into something beautiful by the…

Almost one year ago, in the week leading up to Christmas, I met “the driftwood artist.” I wonder if he is still there peddling his art on that part of coastal highway that runs through St. Petersburg, Florida. And,  I wonder if all of life, really, is about cobbling together something beautiful out of the…

I got my very first piece of borderline hate mail recently. Since it has been said by writers far more seasoned than I that you haven’t really “arrived” in the blogging world until the hate mail starts accruing, I’m actually feeling pretty un-phased by the development.  (Just think, for example, about all the controversy that Rachel…

 
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