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Who Is My Neighbor Now?

By Jane Patterson

Nov 13, 2018

Photo courtesy of Dayna DeHoyos The other morning, I was picking up the newspaper and filling the birdfeeder before dawn when I sensed someone quite near, staring at me in the darkness. When I turned to look, I saw the dark mass of a deer with a huge rack of antlers, frozen in place, staring […]

The Power of Your Vote

By Awa Jangha

Nov 6, 2018

  The Importance of the Vote One consistent reality championed throughout the history of elections in America has been the importance of voting. The experience of voting and opportunity to vote has shifted over time. Voting has gone from a right only available to the privileged to the hard-won right and pride of newly registered […]

The Matter of Words

By Claire Miller Colombo

Oct 31, 2018

Friends: Words matter. They “matter” in that they make a difference. They signify. They have force and energy. They also “matter” in that they are incarnational: They give substance to what was previously insubstantial. They give form to what was previously formless. They usher realities into the world. Including, but not limited to, […]

The Enneagram and God’s Future

By Anthony Baker

Oct 24, 2018

  This past summer, I began exploring the Enneagram, a grid of personality/spirituality types you generally see depicted in that vaguely satanic-looking nine-point star within a circle. I’ve heard about it from students and colleagues over the years, and I decided it was time to see for myself. I read Chistopher Heurtz’s helpful book The […]

Respecting the Dignity

By Lauren Kay

Oct 17, 2018

  Even on a day when I paid little attention to social media, I found it impossible to miss the news last Thursday about the upcoming interment of Matthew Shepard’s ashes at Washington National Cathedral. In my Very Episcopalian, Very Gay Newsfeed, friends posted related articles, often commenting on how meaningful this news is to […]