Deepening Your Spiritual Journey
Explore reflections that inspire growth, challenge your beliefs, and connect you more profoundly with your faith community.
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Kneeling in the Aisle: Living Postcolonial Anglicanism Through Embodied Ministry
The author reflects on their journey of living postcolonial Anglicanism, emphasizing embodied faith through the Eucharist and communal prayer. They acknowledge the church’s complex history with colonialism while advocating for a theology that respects…
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Do Not Lose Heart… the Days are Surely Coming
This morning’s sermon by my rector, Fr. Daniel, centered on one of Jesus’ most moving parables—the story of the persistent widow who refuses to give up until justice is done. He connected that story…
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Who Gets to Count as a Scholar? Reflections on Marginalized Voices in Academia and Mission by Craig Goodwin-Ortiz de León
In my doctoral program, I learned that non-U.S. scholarship was often dismissed as irrelevant, which reflects an elitist view prioritizing American perspectives. This practice marginalizes voices from the Global South and reinforces a knowledge…
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Searching for Identity: The Episcopal Church
The Episcopal Church is navigating a complex identity rooted in its English Reformation origins and American pluralism. It grapples with historical injustices and strives for inclusion, raising questions about its unity and mission. The…
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Reimagine the Work of Justice
On my first day at Union Theological Seminary, I reflect on what it means to reimagine the work of justice. This journey is both outward and inward—an unbinding from inherited assumptions and a recommitment…
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Christianity Beyond Power: A Call to Love Our Neighbors
Christianity in America too often sides with power instead of the poor. When people of color are kidnapped off the streets by ICE and when NIMBY policies push the homeless further into despair, Christians…
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The Questions That Shape My Theology
Ecclesiastes 2 echoes in my mind as I ask where God is in the midst of grief, leadership, expectation, and forgiveness. The Teacher calls it all vanity, a chasing after the wind, yet I…
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Who Gets to Define Violence? What Revelation, Black Lives Matter, and My Own Blind Spots Taught Me
During Bible study this week, I found myself sitting quietly while others discussed Chapter 2 of Brian K. Blount’s Can I Get a Witness? Reading Revelation through African American Culture. They offered insights that…
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He Knows My Name
In the garden after the resurrection, Mary Magdalene stood weeping, desperate to find the One she loved. She did not recognize Him until He spoke her name. That single word changed everything. I am…
Under the Fig Tree 