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November 2023

November 13, 2023

Give Me Oil For My Lamp

I happened to come across this article yesterday and found much of the response on...

January 2021

January 22, 2021

I Know It’s Disappointing, But You Do Have To Read It

Is it really Friday? And the sky is threatening snow, so that's something. For reasons...

September 2020

September 30, 2020

Lest They See With Their Eyes

I was determined not to watch the debate last night—committed, really, as a matter of...

June 2017

June 30, 2017

7 Takes to Recovering Sane Disciplines

Can you believe it? June is over. This shouldn't upset me, but truly, it seems...

May 2017

May 15, 2017

Airport Run Podcast and Links

We have an extra special treat this morning. The Preventing Grace Podcast has been elevated...

May 10, 2017

Anglican Books You Have To Have

Think I've forgotten how to blog. Was sure this was going to happen when I...

April 2017

April 05, 2017

3 Annoying Approaches to Women in the Church

So, I very meanly played to my base yesterday (I love y'all) which necessarily won...

December 2016

December 07, 2016

Wordy Wednesday: The Book

Monday night I had to stay up blisteringly late--till ten o'clock or something completely ghastly....

April 2016

April 03, 2016

Sunday Reflection: He Gives to his Beloved

It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating...

February 2016

February 28, 2016

Sunday Reflection: Then Shall I be Satisfied

As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness; when I awake, I shall...

February 21, 2016

Sunday Reflection: An Idolator Color Codes Her Pencils

Sunday morning confession: I keep getting sucked into those Facebook quizzes which I'm sure are...

February 07, 2016

Sunday Reflection: Discernment for the Undiscerning

I'm well into the book of Jeremiah, being constantly shocked awake by the practically rhythmic...

January 2016

January 31, 2016

Sunday Reflection: Living Water in Lent

Lent will soon be upon us and already I have been quietly fretting over the...

January 03, 2016

Sunday Reflection: I am but a Mist

I woke up wide eyed and irrationally panicked, on the first day of this new...

December 2015

December 27, 2015

Sunday Reflecfion: The Word was Made Flesh

The Word, the Light and the Likeness. Each one of them is enough on its...

December 04, 2015

7 Long End of the Week Takes

It's been a long week of politics and theology around here. Time for some lighter,...

November 2015

November 29, 2015

A Reflection for the First Sunday of Advent

There's a very pretty and depressing Christmas Carol that we have sometimes sung on Christmas...

September 2015

September 15, 2015

Wisdom Cries Aloud

Need to get onto a new bible reading schedule. Since the glorious advent of the...

May 2015

May 11, 2015

Yet Another Devotional

So, I'm writing a book. For weeks and months I've been thinking I ought to...

December 2014

December 10, 2014

SDfAoWOP: the Girl

Day Thirty-SevenII Kings 5:2Now the Syrians on one of their raids had carried off a...

September 2014

September 16, 2014

SDfAoWOP: the Room

Day Thirty-Six II Kings 4:10 Let us make a small room on the roof with...

August 2014

August 30, 2014

SDfAoWOP: a Prophet

Day Thirty-FiveII Kings 3:11And Jehoshaphat said, "Is there no prophet of The Lord here, through...

August 16, 2014

SDfAoWOP: Elisha

Day Thirty-FourII Kings 2:12And Elisha saw it and he cried, "My father, my father! The...

August 12, 2014

SDfAoWOP: Jezebel

Day Thirty-ThreeI Kings 21:5But Jezebel his wife came to him and said to him, "Why...

August 02, 2014

SDfAOWOP: The Child

Day ThirtyI King 14:12-13Arise, therefore, go to your house. When your feet enter the city,...

July 2014

July 30, 2014

SDfAoWOP: Elijah

Day Thirty-TwoI Kings 19:3Then he was afraid, and he arose and ran for his life...

July 25, 2014

SDfAoWOP: the Widow

Day Thirty-OneI Kings 17:12And she said, "As The Lord lives, I have nothing baked, only...

July 13, 2014

SDfAoWOP: the House

Day Twenty-NineI Kings 6:37-38In the fourth year the foundation of the house of The Lord...

July 05, 2014

SDfAoWOP: The Prostitute

Day Twenty-Eight I Kings 3:24-25 And the king said, "Bring me a sword." So a...

June 2014

June 25, 2014

SDfAoWOP: a Shield

Day Twenty-SevenPsalm 31 O LORD, how many are my foes! Many are rising against me;...