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October 2013

October 31, 2013

Embodied: Communion and Pregnancy

By the time I was pregnant with my first son I was learning to...

August 2013

August 20, 2013

First Day: The Holding and the Letting Go

For months we’ve been talking about this. This thing is coming. This change. When all...

June 2012

June 18, 2012

To Brooksie, on his baptism…

This past Friday evening, we gathered family and friends in Philadelphia and Brooksie was baptized...

June 15, 2012

Poem-a-Day Friday: Franz Wright

Today is a special day for my little family. Our T-Rexy (aka Brooksie)...

April 2012

April 26, 2012

Dishes and Litany and all that Beauty

I live in the litany of the putting away. The clean dishes go onto shelves,...

February 2012

February 27, 2012

Fumbling Toward Alleluia

I slowly eased into liturgy. I was reading Anglicans first before I entered the doors...

February 22, 2012

Wednesday: Ashes and Death

I'm reposting what I wrote for Ash Wednesday last year, when I was nine months...

February 15, 2012

{Practicing Benedict} The work of God

"When the time comes for one of the divine offices to begin, as soon as...

February 08, 2012

{Praciticing Benedict} The Sacred Vessels of the Altar

"All the utensils of the monastery and in fact everything that belongs to the monastery...

November 2011

November 07, 2011

All Saints Day

Today we celebrate All Saints Day. We ride in the car to our new church,...

September 2011

September 28, 2011

Wise Stuff My Husband Said {A Series}: The Bible as Friend

Monday night we sat on the couch, me drinking tea slash eating dark chocolate and...

September 01, 2011

How ‘the ordinary becomes a container for the divine’

My brother and sister in law gave me an Amazon gift card for my birthday....

August 2011

August 29, 2011

The Chalice

I grew up in a faith tradition that celebrated the Lord’s Supper every quarter, four...

April 2011

April 17, 2011

A Prayer for Palm Sunday

O Lord Jesus Christ, who on this day entered the rebellious city which later rejected...

March 2011

March 14, 2011

Beautiful

Last Wednesday night, as I entered the church nursery where August had been playing while...

March 09, 2011

Wednesday: Ashes and Death

I love Ash Wednesday because it reminds me that I will die. I am a...

March 07, 2011

Entering Lent

Lent is my favorite season of the Liturgical year. I love it for a lot...

December 2010

December 01, 2010

Good Words

A couple of weeks ago, Matt Nault, one of the pastors at my church, spoke...

May 2010

May 27, 2010

An Invitation to Believe

I mentioned briefly last week that I’ve begun meeting with a spiritual director, the concept...

May 17, 2010

Ascension Day

“To embrace the Ascension is to heave a sigh of relief, to give up the...

March 2010

March 29, 2010

Palm Sunday

As I write this, it's still Palm Sunday, the day we pick up our palm...