Seminary financing: the cold, hard facts
January. Epiphany. For Episcopal seminarians in their third year, it means taking the General Ordination Exams. For a lot of us, it means biting our nails until the financial aid…
“Why do you sit in front?”
I have had many recent experiences related to sitting in the front at church that have caused me to reflect upon why we do or do not sit in front…
Mile 13 of the marathon….
There comes a time in every seminarian’s life when she asks herself, “What the heck am I doing at this place, sitting on a hard chair in a cold library,…
Being Franciscan in Saudi Arabia
One of my secret delights as a Franciscan on my Saudi Arabia trip was to be retracing the steps of Francis in my journey. St. Francis of Assisi travelled to…
American Woman in Saudi Arabia
On our trip to Saudi Arabia, my Saudi hosts frequently addressed the issue of gender and how we women were doing, and God knows it was a concern for some…
Six days in Saudi, Part I
I think I have been asked, “What was it like in Saudi Arabia?” about 45 times since I returned on October 16, and about five friends have asked why I…
Marcheremos en la luz de Dios
As I said at a work meeting of Berkeley chapel ministers yesterday, sometimes God comes in a trickle, and sometimes God comes in a waterfall. I seem to be standing…
Abiding with the unpredictable, Part 2
Friends, if you’ve been reading my blog, you know that 12 of us Yale Divinity and Law students have been invited to visit Saudi Arabia in October. Many of you…
Abiding with the unpredictable, Part 1
Friends, I just started my second year of seminary, but this year is nothing like the last. Last year, everything was new, exciting, and somewhat daunting. This year, everything is…
More proof that God listens and cares….
Now that I am done with Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE), I can admit that there were times, especially around 3:30 in the morning when I was the only hospital chaplain…
Praying in Arabic and Hindi
One of the most interesting things about my hospital chaplaincy is that I visit patients of all faiths and no faiths every day and try to figure out how to…
The daily dose of death
There is death, and then there is death. There are the deaths that result from a lifetime of illnesses, or perhaps a deadly disease that finally has taken its toll…
Watch out what you pray for….
When last I wrote, dear reader, you may recall that I was worried about being called to serve as a chaplain to a family that had lost a baby while…
For whom the sirens toll…
The sound of sirens is fairly common around Yale and my end of New Haven, and it didn’t really sink in until this week why that is: they are from…
Gospel on the Ground 