O Comforter, Draw Near
Today is Pentecost. It’s the day we mark the coming of the Holy Spirit. One of the names used for the Holy Spirit in scripture…
What Day Is It?
Good morning. I hope it is a good morning for you. I don’t know what makes a ‘good’ morning form a ‘bad’ morning, but I…
How Can We Know the Way?
When I was a First Year at UVA in the fall of 1982, a particularly dangerous virus rampaged through the Grounds, causing us students –…
A Sermon for Buck Mountain
This comes to us from our very own Courtenay Evans, who preached this Sunday for Buck Mountain Episcopal Church. This past January I had the…
The Ten Blessings
Ever since I can remember, I’ve had this dream of being a pig or a sheep farmer. And despite the fact that I now have…
Disillusioned
One way I have been surviving this pandemic, is to be outside. I have been walking more than I ever have and noticing more than…
No Doubt About It
The Doubting Thomas story comes to us anew in the midst of the Coronavirus.
Evermore and Nevermore
I’ll begin with a church joke, which is close kin to a Dad joke, so, sorry. A nice, upstanding, church going episcopal couple invited their…
The Parting of the Particles
Fiction writer and essayist Walker Percy, who is a real hero of mine, is notorious for his writing about the malaise of everyday life that…
Throw Your Coat Down
Greetings from` our home in Fluvanna County where I have been in quarantine from my husband Stuart since I returned from the Honduras mission trip…
First Century Quarantine
Click here to read the Harvard Business Review article on Grief. Click here for the Andrew Sullivan essay about How To Survive a Plague.