Sixteenth Sunday After Pentecost • September 24, 2017 Pastor Elyse Ambrose Sacred Text – An Excerpt from Alice Walker’s The Color Purple Listen, God love everything…
With everything going on in the world right now, I have to admit that I’m a bit inward focused these days. I’m exhausted and feeling…
I remember that day in seminary well. I walked into the chapel for our midday worship, and by the end of the first hymn, tears…
I have been having conversations with some parishioners and friends recently about self-worth. Last week, I was in a conversation in which someone told us…
Yesterday, I stumbled upon a story about Shia women and girls in Baghdad training to use AK-47’s. With the men of their families gone to…
Someone told me yesterday that their boss had a baby last week. My reaction to the news of people having babies used to be, “Oh!…
I have a pretty raw blister on my left pinky toe right now. It is my battle wound from making the long trek out to…
As a new mother-priest, I am finding that I have to actively restrain myself from talking and writing constantly about my daughter, since she is…
I have heard it said that becoming a parent radically changes your perspective on life. I have found that to be absolutely true. It began…
My husband and I have moved around a lot in recent years, and each move has involved a pretty major purge of possessions. Every time,…
