Acts 16:9-15 My wife and I once enjoyed a relaxing weekend in Port Townsend, Washington. As we roamed the town, we came upon an outdoor yard sale at the house of four young adults who lived together. The next thing we knew, we were playing croquet with them; we stayed for several hours! Had we…

It had been a long, multi-year mission with not much to show for it except threats from the rulers of occupied Israel and the religious authorities. Despite countless healings of the sick, large crowds coming out to hear him, miracles of feeding the hungry, they were still a small band of disciples. They surely wondered…

Job 42:1-6, 10-17 The Book of Job is a classic story, told with many classic elements: a squeaky-clean protagonist who still falls on hard times, three antagonists, and here, finally a resolution beyond the reader’s wildest dreams. The restoration of Job’s riches comes not only in an unbelievable amount, but through an unbelievable series of…

A widow is walking a dusty road. The sun is in the sky, making shadows on the mud-brick walls and simple dusty streets of Nain. The town sits on the edge of a wide and beautiful valley, but the widow doesn’t notice, because today her life has ended. She has lost her last connection to…

[RCL] Genesis 1:1-5; Psalm 29; Acts 19:1-7; Mark 1:4-11 Paul said to the disciples in Ephesus: ‘Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?’ They replied, ‘No, we have not even heard that there is a Holy Spirit.’ Then he said, ‘Into what then were you baptized?’ They answered, ‘Into John’s baptism’” (Acts…

Hoy el evangelio nos habla de la multiplicación de cinco panes y dos peces. La muchedumbre no viene con enfermos para que Jesús los sane como señala el evangelio de Mateo (15:30), sino movida por un cierto entusiasmo mesiánico, pues ha visto los signos que Jesús ha realizado, milagros sorprendentes. El que Jesús suba a…

ofrenda del Viernes Santo La historia de la ofrenda del Viernes Santo se remonta a 1922, cuando, tras la Primera Guerra Mundial, la Iglesia Episcopal buscó establecer nuevas relaciones con y entre los cristianos de Oriente Medio. A partir de estos esfuerzos iniciales, que se centraron en una combinación de labor de ayuda humanitaria y…

Danae Ashley The Rev. Danae Ashley is an Episcopal priest, international speaker, and voiceover actress who has ministered with parishes in North Carolina, New York, Minnesota, and the Seattle area and is a psychotherapist at Soul Spa Seattle, LLC. Danae uses art, music, drama, poetry, and movement in counseling, spiritual direction, and creation of ritual. She…

We have two ways of thinking about the saints, and it turns out that neither one of them is very helpful. We think of “Saints” with a capital “S”: St. Peter, St. Teresa of Avila, St. Augustine, the named heroes of the faith who made their mark in the world and left a legacy of…

Para este decimocuarto domingo después de Pentecostés, las lecturas bíblicas nos invitan a reflexionar sobre dos valores sumamente importantes, los cuales constituyen una parte integral de nuestra vida de fe cristiana. Dichos valores son el amor y el perdón. Ambos valores son poderosos, necesarios, siempre van tomados de la mano y conllevan a la transformación personal y…