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Excuses & Apologies
Tags: UncategorizedIf this is pinned, it’s got new information Hi there! I haven’t given up blogging the lectionary, I’ve just fallen behind. Overwhelm is real and threatening to morph into depression. I will still write the missing post later this week. Be well, –Elaine
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Hope has teeth.
Tags: UncategorizedYeah, yeah, I misquoted Dickinson. (She wrote, “Hope is the thing with feathers,” not “Hope’s the thing…”) But this is a meme I made a while back that isn’t really a meme because it’s not meming, but it does seem, unfortunately, to be evergreen: Feel free to use it if you like, though.
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Us and Them
The Sixth Sunday of Easter—May 10, 2026 Note: I may revise this post later in the week. I had nearly finished it when my computer restarted for software updates and while the site keeps saying, “auto-saving,” it apparently did no such thing. Among the various images portraying Paul’s speech to the Athenians, this painting by…
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Iona
A serious omission! I didn’t share this poem here. My poem “Iona” was published on Earth & Altar in December 2024, and I don’t seem to have posted it here on this blog! So here goes. You can read it on Earth & Altar‘s site here:https://earthandaltarmag.com/posts/iona (St. Columcille is better known as St. Columba. He…
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Doing Jesus’ works
The Fifth Sunday of Easter—May 3, 2026 I find it weirdly fitting that the feast of St. Stephen falls the day after Christmas, as if to remind us that the Incarnation of Christ has implications. We are now on the other end of Jesus’ earthly life, and his sojourn to the Cross, through the grave,…
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When we can’t tell Christ from Hermes
The Fourth Sunday of Easter—April 26, 2026 In today’s epistle, someone writing as St. Peter reminds Christians who are suffering for their faith that Christ also suffered unjustly, entrusting himself to God. In doing so, he set a model for us. While early Christians were sometimes persecuted, it was far from a constant experience. Decades…
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Learning a new way to see
The Third Sunday of Easter—April 19, 2026 In his 1991 book of essays, AfterCulture: Detroit and the Humiliation of History, Jerry Herron writes about a paradox that was true several decades before and after his book came out: Detroit, in national media, was portrayed both as an empty space and as a city “overfilled with…
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