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…
Mary Angelus Cady, 1891 – 1980 Are You My Mother? is a classic little children’s book by P.D. Eastman. A little bird falls out of his nest and goes in search of his mother. She has not abandoned him however, she has just gone off to dig up a few worms for his supper. Freshly hatched…
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…
Geoffrey Anketell Studdert Kennedy aka:“Woodbine Willie” June 27, 1883 – March 8, 1929 I first learned of Geoffrey Anketell Student Kennedy through his book The Hardest Part (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1918.) The best known chaplain in the British Army in World War I, the troops loved him because of his habit of handing out packs of…
Dorothy Day, 1897 – 1980 I don’t quite remember, but I believe I discovered her when I was a college student and learning about social justice. Dorothy Day’s discipleship was all about taking care of those who were poor and marginalized as well as speaking truth to power, particularly around war and peace issues. Her…
Emmanuel Voices 