Alleluia! Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed! Alleluia! This is the traditional greeting of Christians all over the world for the season of Easter. Our season of preparation has come to a close, and a season of rejoicing is upon us. The alleluias have been...
I was fortunate while I was an undergraduate at the University of Georgia. My parents were generously willing to cover my expenses after scholarships and encouraged me to focus on school rather than get a part-time job. This was an obvious luxury because many of my...
Time. In some ways it is the great equalizer. No matter what we have or lack of other resources, we all have the same amount of time each day—24 hours. Yet for most of us, it seems there is rarely enough. Never have I felt this more viscerally than in motherhood. I...
In so many ways Anglicanism has ruined me. When we were in college and newly in love, Spencer and I tried our best to find a church together. It was a tumultuous time to be Episcopalian, and my home church was in the midst of a split. There was no Anglican church...
I once read an article that changed the way I think about time. The gist of the article went something like this: Watch your “nos” and your “yeses” will take care of themselves; every time we say “yes” to something, we say “no” to something else. This statement has...
One Sunday, a very long time ago, during church the priest announced a second, special offering collection for a member of the congregation. The church’s piano player opened her purse and saw a five dollar bill. She was a single mother, and times were very lean. But...
