It’s not so much what you do that matters to God, it’s who you know and what you did for them.
God isn’t scanning our credentials; God is asking who our friends are. Who do we recognize? Who do we receive? To who do we hand even a cup of cold water?
Author: Nicholas Knisely
The God who hears and sees those who are pushed aside
Ishmael is not a mistake to be cleaned up, he has his own destiny. We imagine that our story is the only one that matters. But that's not true for the God who made all Creation.
Insider or outsider, they are daughters to Jesus
He called the nameless one, daughter, and he calls us by the same name.
A message for Pride Month from the Episcopal Diocese of Rhode Island
Thanks so much to all the folks who were part of this unscripted video. It’s an important message for our neighbors in Rhode Island. Please share?
The Trinity: It teaches us about who we are, and what AI can’t be.
The encyclical released this week is being characterized primarily as a Critique of AI. But to be frank it’s not so much of AI as of the economics, and particularly the disparity between wealth and poverty that is behind AI’s rise. And also of the exploitation of people, the environment and the spiritual realm that seems to be happening too. Parenthetically: The Encyclical is mostly about the terrifying ways we are abusing power and the […]
Pentecost: Once again, here we are.
The Tower of Babel at its core is a critique of human desire that is separate from God’s action. When nations work their human designs, they are destined to fail. The Day of Pentecost is the recasting of that story.
Ascension not Apotheosis and why that matters
The Ascension, properly understood, says something startling about your body. About your memory. About the specific and particular history that has made you who you are at this moment.
You will not be left orphaned
The self-giving, self-emptying love that we celebrate this weekend of Mother's Day changes everything. And if we have eyes to see it, it is still all around us.
A Meditation for the Earth in observance of Earth Day
Entry 2: A Meditation for the Earth Today is Earth Day. Exactly two weeks ago, in the middle of Holy Week, Holy Trinity Church in Tiverton hosted an Earth Tenebrae for the Endangered & Extinct. (This is the second installment of our Dear Rhode Island Church series.) There’s more info about the service and its meaning at the link above.
The looming crisis of widespread food shortages
From Hormuz to Asia’s Cradles – Tom McDermott The world’s primary monitors of food security are now on “red alert.” Within the last 48 hours, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Programme (WFP) have labeled the conflict a “crisis multiplier.” The FAO warns that the loss of urea and ammonia shipments from the Gulf is a direct threat to future yields, while the Global Network Against Food Crises (GNAFC) projects that […]