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Reflections, Implications, and Personal Stories Across Various Topics

  • Published On: May 20, 2020By

    In every season, in every storm In moments of questions In moments of fear In moments when everything seems so unclear Be still and know that you are loved

  • Published On: May 12, 2020By

    There is a subtle panic

    in her eyes: she is trying to read me, trying to understand what it is I could want

    from her, but she picks up nothing at all from my best encouraging face.

  • Published On: May 5, 2020By

    Being part of the Body of Christ means feeling pain when parts of the Body are not in alignment, and in such a large and diverse Body this will always be the case.

  • Published On: April 29, 2020By

    Currently we can feel as though we are trapped in our homes. However, there is a window out of self-isolation into the experience of many others; those who must always do life at a slower pace.

  • Published On: April 24, 2020By

    During the time of COVID-19, many of us are experiencing solitude or the loss of communal, in-person worship in new ways. For some, this might bring on existential questions and struggles with doubt. I hope that these spiritual practices will help others in the ways that they have helped me.

  • Published On: April 20, 2020By

    While in some ways the COVID-19 pandemic is unifying the community around the globe, in others it is legitimating archaic values and hierarchies.

  • Published On: April 17, 2020By

    During this season of forced and mutual deprivation, when our consolations are taken from us one by one and we are continually and graphically reminded of the mortality of our species, I turn to the men I support for wisdom and guidance.

  • Published On: April 15, 2020By

    These men, despite their depths of hard-won wisdom and delightful companionship, are well-accustomed to strangers keeping their distance in public places. The conditions we ironically bemoan on social media are barely distinguishable from how they have spent most of the days of their lives. They are old pros at quarantine, and they are teaching me.

  • Published On: April 12, 2020By

    In Romans 8, Saint Paul tells us that the whole creation groans in labour pains, waiting for the redemption of the body. We too groan in yearning. We long for an end to the suffering, the tedium, the frustration at incomplete solutions…

  • Published On: April 9, 2020By

    The Covid 19 pandemic and related precautions have made me realize that the reason my faith excites me is because of opportunities to witness the redemptive power of Christ, or the ways in which God transforms negative events into blessings.