This post needs very little introduction! Memorial Day weekend is here, summer has arrived, and it’s time to pack our beach bags full of books. But what books? Once again I have reached out to the voracious readers and friends of Emmanuel and collected a treasure trove of recommendations! I promise you there is something…
That stone, hewn for mortal sadnessFrom the dust to dust returnedWaiting to entomb all gladnessLife eternally inurned. That stone, lit by day’s last sunlightWelcomed agony’s remainsTears that dimmed His Mother’s eyesightMingled with its life-blood stains. That stone held in death’s great conquestFor three days God’s vanquished Love.Hope with blood drained from his pierced chestFor salvation…
When I first agreed to preach today, I thought, sure I can do a children’s homily for youth Sunday, I have taught kids for a long time. Then I remembered I had to do both services, which meant an adult message as well. With the children, we will talk about what Jesus means when He…
Editor’s Note: Many thanks to the author for granting permission to post her beautiful and personal reworking of the beloved Advent hymn: O Come, O Come Emmanuel. O come Beloved Bridegroom stay In love’s embrace until the break of day. Breathe deep the almond blossom perfume And rest among the dew-kissed lily blooms. Rejoice! Rejoice!…
Advent 2022 begins Sunday, November 27th. Angels. Every year, when they were little, my children donned cardboard wings in the Christmas pageant. And through the centuries gilded angel wings have graced a bazillion Christmas cards. Angels. Pretty, poetic symbols. Anachronistic theology of the Middle Ages. Superstition in the scientific age. Right? Yet every Sunday we confess that “We…
I first discovered Dave Grohl listening to the nineties music of Nirvana. After a shambolic academic record — and to his parents’ horror (his mom taught public school in Fairfax County for 30 years!) — Dave quit school his junior year to rock it out playing drums in local punk bands. And at the tender…
Amy has been a friend for nearly 40 years. We met when I worked for her husband back in 1983 and has been a friend ever since. It may be unusual to nominate a Rabbi in the Reform Judaism Movement for saintly election, but nobody I know exemplifies love of God and your love of…
Emmett Moore Waits, 1923 – 2014 Father Waits, as he was known to the college students who frequented the Canterbury House in Denton, TX, is my personal saint. He was kind and gentle by nature, committed to his faith and the Episcopal church, and devoted to his family by birth and his student family, as…
Julian of Norwich, 1343 -1416 Julian’s “Revelations of a Divine Love” is the oldest surviving English manuscript written by a woman. Dame Julian of Norwich, like many church women, is nameless. She is referred to by the church (St. Julian in Norwich) where she was an anchoress and mystic for much of her life. She…
Good morning, and thank you for being here. There’s a lot going on in your life, if it’s anything like ours, and it’s great that we all made the decision to gather here today. I want to thank Chuck and Joani for graciously inviting me to speak to you today about what the story of…
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