No longer strangers
Meeting Jesus on the road and close to home
By Katharine Jefferts Schori, May 06, 2008I was in the Holy Land during this last Holy Week. When we were there, by chance we met Cindy and Craig Corrie, whose daughter Rachel was killed by a bulldozer in Gaza five years ago...

Mirrors and nails and spiritual tales
Church members create personal books of uncommon prayer
By Lucy Chumbley, May 02, 2008What are prayer books made of? For some members of St. George's Episcopal Church, Glenn Dale, Maryland, prayer books include fabric from a favorite dress, fragments of stained glass from a church destroyed by a hurricane, bumper stickers, song lyrics, pra...

A different kind of truth
College student falls in love with Anglicanism
By Emily Garcia, Apr 22, 2008I first met Steve White in the doorway of a pantry, in a big shambly church in Trenton. I was there for Community Action, working with the Crisis Ministry, and he was there for our Professors' Night, to discuss Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains ab...

For the whole world
Loving our neighbors includes caring for creation that supports all our earthly lives
By Katharine Jefferts Schori, Apr 18, 2008I have had the remarkable privilege to visit several Episcopal schools and institutions of theological education in the last year. Several of them are involved in growing their own food, at vastly differing scales...

Virginia Tech anniversary
Reflections on April 16, 2007 -- one year on
By Scott Russell, Apr 15, 2008There is no manual. I checked. There is no manual that could have told me how to deal with a day like April 16, 2007, or the days and weeks and months that have followed. After five years of ministry with the students, faculty, staff and administration of...

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