Summertime and the Livin’ is … George Gershwin I blame COVID-19 for the loss of Beverly Bettencourt. Oh, she didn’t die. Nothing like that. This isn’t that kind of story, not really. You see, before the pandemic, our little neighborhood – all four blocks of it – revolved around Beverly and her tiny kitchen. Year…
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“Holed Up for a Year, I Hope…” Holy Week short story from Kristin Neubauer Illustrated by Margaret Wohler Jenny steadied herself with her left hand as she squatted among the rubble. With her right hand, she tried to push aside a slab of siding jammed against the remains of the patio table. She’d taken off…
“Holed Up for a Year, I Hope…” A Holy Week blog post from C. Neal Goldsborough “Pilate asked Jesus, ‘So you are a king?’ Jesus answered, ‘You say that I am a king. For this I was born, and for this I came into the world to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to…
“Hope Up for a Year, I hope…” Holy Week blog post from Toni Buranen Holed up for a year, I hope… That things do NOT return to normal. Don’t get me wrong. This has been a very hard year, globally, nationally, locally, personally and I wish the pandemic had not happened. So many people died.…
“Holed Up for a Year, I Hope…” Holy Week podcast from Colleen Clark In the “early days” of February and March of last year, I found myself reading article after article about how the coronavirus was wreaking havoc on older adults. For good reason, millions of our senior neighbors no longer felt safe shopping for…
Welcome to Emmanuel Voices’ Holy Week Series “Holed Up for a Year, I Hope…” Premiering Saturday, March 27, 2021 Click to listen. “Holed Up for a Year, I Hope…” is a Holy Week blogging project that I dreamed up. A few weeks ago in our Thursday Weekly E-news, this is the call I put out…
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Note: Kristin Neubauer’s story is a work of creative nonfiction, based on the experience of Maya Husseini, Lebanon’s premiere stained glass artist. Illustration by Margaret Wohler. Tick. The second hand on Maya’s watch moves six-tenths of a millimeter to the right, the click of the cogs lost in the space of cathedral’s soaring arches. In…
NOTE: This is Bishop Susan Goff’s Meditation for the Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost, sent in a letter to the clergy of the Diocese of Virginia (with format corrected.) “Since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let…
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I am a retired Episcopal priest, a long time friend and former colleague of Joani Peacock’s, who lives in Charlottesville, Virginia. Over the last two months I have been photographing the public artwork that graces our beautiful city and sharing one work each day on Facebook. My hope was that in these strange, anxious days…
Note: A post-election reflection for the Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost from the Rt. Rev. Porter Taylor, Assistant Bishop of the Diocese of Virginia posted in a letter to the churches in Virginia. With the announcement that Joe Biden has enough electoral votes to be the President-Elect, some are joyous, and some are dejected. Some are…
Read more No Future Without Forgiveness: A Post-Election Reflection from Bishop Porter Taylor
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