An Easy Easter!
For the past, say, eleven years of my life, Holy Week (the week before Easter) and Easter Sunday have been very busy times for me. Whether I was a choir…
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Fasting for Haiti and for Peace
I have been busy thinking about, planning, and promoting Yale Divinity School’s Fast for Haiti, Fast for Peace, which begins on March 24 and ends on March 31, during Holy…
“Is that gold real?”
At the church where I worship most Sundays, I was sitting in front of a family with young children. In front of us was a regular altar on the same…
The long wait…
The Bible is replete with examples of waiting: Abraham and Sarah waiting for that long line of descendants promised by God; Jacob working 7 years for one wife and then…
Communion
I had two wonderful experiences of Communion today that underscored the love and charity that can exist between people of different faiths. (For any non-Christians reading this, “communion” is the…
“Love without justice is sentimentality”
I wish I could have brought you all along on my day today. My fellow Episcopal seminarians and I are studying urban ministry this semester in our Anglican colloquium, and…
So 12 Benedictines and a Franciscan walk into a bar…
I am at the end of my first Reading Week of the spring semester at Yale Divinity School, a week given to seminarians to catch up on reading. But I’m…
Saved by spirituals and the God of small things….
It can be an incredible gift to know what one is meant to do in life, what one needs to do to get there, and where one can accomplish it.…
And the CPE interviews begin!
I thought I would have a hard time getting a CPE (Clinical Pastoral Education) placement this summer because we were told to get our applications in by December. Unfortunately, we…
Why theology matters
It’s jarring to listen to the news from Haiti, the utter desperation of the situation there, and to wait for news from a seminary classmate whose father is gravely ill,…
From one world to another…
I am back from eight wonderful days in sunny California, bouncing between Sacramento and the Bay Area and visits with friends, sisters, brothers in law, nieces, and nephews. We were…
The final, final, final exam
I was a bit embarrassed in church yesterday because our priest (very kindly, I might add) asked all the students in the congregation to stand up so that the congregation…
Odd ways in which seminary learning is useful….
I have just completed a grueling two weeks of writing three essays, with a combined page count of 48 pages, for two classes. One was on the Sacred and Secular…
A Day in the Day
Here I am, sitting in the Day Missions Reading Room at the Yale Divinity School Library. I used to think the name referred to this being the room where one…
Gospel on the Ground 