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Ahhh, summer. The hot, sunny days bring to mind fond memories of eating watermelon by
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Ahhh, summer. The hot, sunny days bring to mind fond memories of eating watermelon by
On my nightstand is a beautiful Anglican rosary. For those who do not know what
It was a surprise and a relief to receive a Facebook generated post from my
By the Rev. Al Rodriguez How often does one get the opportunity to present a
By the Rev. Dave Scheider “Have you ever had a mystical experience?” Lately I have
By the Very Rev. J. Pittman McGehee A paradox is a statement of opposites, both
Today is my 11th commencement as a faculty member at Seminary of the Southwest. It
In the Gospels, Jesus says more about money than about any other subject except the
As I write, we celebrate the Feast of the Ascension. As Christians we take one
Perhaps the real therapy occurred […] when they moved into honesty with the revelation that they
At the feast of Mary Magdalene at Christ Chapel this Easter season I wrestled once
Last week, questions floated around our campus as we learned of several disturbing events over
As I write this, the pope’s new exhortation, “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”), has
Imagine the following sign at your church door: “please hand your gun to the
“Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the
Recently I discovered a very brief video on my phone that I must have taken
In his most recent book, Do Over, author Jon Acuff asks whether there are
“Oh, thank goodness,” I thought to myself as I saw that Brother Curtis’s plane was
A few weeks ago, I sat on my living room couch on a Saturday afternoon
The metaphor of porn has become pervasive in our cultural conversation. In addition to food
During last week’s Payne Lecture, Dr. Brené Brown reminded the SSW community that the
During the last week of January, I took nine students from Seminary of the Southwest
The January Encuentro is a required three-week course for all M.Div. Juniors and is designed,
It is early January and I am writing at Gladstone’s Library in Northern Wales. The
A prophet, a poet, a preacher, a dreamer, Martin Luther King, Jr. shared the prophet
A Baptist, a Muslim, an Episcopalian, and a Jewish law scholar walked into a Methodist
When my husband and I found out we were expecting, we did as many other
Friday, December 25 Psalms 2, 85; Micah 4:1-5; 5:2-4; John 3:31-36 Listen to the
Thursday, December 24 Psalm 89:1-29; Isaiah 59:15b-21; Matthew 1:18-25 Listen to the author read
Wednesday, December 23 Psalm 72; 2 Samuel 7:1-17; Luke 1:39-48a (48b-56) Listen to the
Tuesday, December 22 Psalms 61,62; Zephaniah 3:14-20; Luke 1:1-25 Listen to the author read
Monday, December 21 Psalm 27; Isaiah 43:8-13; John 14:1-7 Listen to the author read
Sunday, December 20 Psalms 24, 29; Genesis 3:8-15; John 3:16-21 Listen to the author
Saturday, December 19 Psalm 55; Zechariah 8:9-17; Matthew 25:31-46 Listen to the author read
Friday, December 18 Psalms 40, 54; Zechariah 7:8-8:8; Matthew 25:14-30 Listen to the author
Thursday, December 17 Psalm 50; Zechariah 4:1-14; Matthew 25:1-13 Listen to the author read
Wednesday, December 16 Psalm 119:49-72; Zechariah 3:1-10; Matthew 24:45-51 Listen to the author read
Tuesday, December 15 Psalm 45; Zechariah 2:1-13; Matthew 24:32-44 Listen to the author read
Monday, December 14 Psalms 41, 52; Zechariah 1:7-17; Matthew 24:15-31 Listen to the author
Sunday, December 13 Psalms 63:1-11, 98; Amos 9:11-15; John 5:30-47 Listen to the author
Saturday, December 12 Psalms 30, 32; Haggai 2:1-9; Matthew 24:1-14 Listen to the author
Friday, December 11 Psalm 31; Haggai 1:1-15; Matthew 23:27-39 Listen to the author read their
Thursday, December 10 Psalm 37:1-18; Amos 9:1-10; Matthew 23:13-26 Listen to the author read
Wednesday – December 9 Psalm 38; Amos 8:1-14; Matthew 23:1-12 Listen to the author
Tuesday – December 8 Psalms 26, 28; Amos 7:10-17; Matthew 22:34-46 Listen to the
Monday – December 7 Psalm 25; Amos 7:1-9; Matthew 22:23-33 Listen to the author
Sunday – December 6 Psalms 148, 149, 150; Amos 6:1-14; Luke 1:57-68 Listen to
Saturday – December 5 Psalms 20, 21:1-7; Amos 5:18-27; Matthew 22:15-22 Listen to the
Friday – December 4 Psalms 16, 17; Amos 5:1-17; Matthew 22:1-14 Listen to the
Thursday – December 3 Psalm 18:1-20; Amos 4:6-13; Matthew 21:33-46 Listen to the author
Wednesday – December 2 Psalm 119:1-24; Amos 3:12-4:5; Matthew 21:23-32 Listen to the author
Tuesday – December 1 Psalms 5,6; Amos 3:1-11; Matthew 21:12-22 Listen to the author
Monday – November 30 Psalms 1,2,3; Amos 2:6-16; Matthew 21:1-11 Listen to the author
Sunday – November 29 Psalms 146,147; Amos 1:1-5, 13, 2:8; Luke 21:5-19 Listen
The Pew Research Center has recently reported on the “Nones,” that demographic segment that states
The following homily was preached by The Very Rev. Cynthia Briggs Kittredge, Dean and President of
I recently learned that Danish people live by a concept known as hygge (pronounced “heurrga,”
There have been a series of popular bumper stickers in recent times with the words
A recent article in The Guardian caught my eye: “Self-control saps memory resources.” What? There’s
Martin Buber described two ways of relating, I-It or I-Thou. In I-It, we relate to
” Cuando alguien encuentra su camino, no puede tener miedo. Tiene que tener el coraje suficiente
Last weekend, I traveled to Great Falls, Montana to help lead a gathering of Episcopal
I have been very moved by the illness and death of Oliver Sacks. I first
Over the summer I took my oldest son on his first set of college visits.
The biblical expression of history is not so much like a line moving steadily from
Ten years out and the scars left by Hurricane Katrina are still visible on the
“[W]e need to nurture commitment to the multicultural community of Christian churches… so as to
Human labor is not a commodity. Recent articles on “Ferguson, One Year Out,” which I was reading
This summer I concluded a year of studying about Judaism as lived in contemporary Israel.
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