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A supportive community for clergywomen since 2005. August 12, 2015. Some of my regular reads have produced some great posts recently:. Have you ever attended a preaching workshop focused on one specific topic? Spent a week this summer at a practicum for preaching one version of the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises. Also on the Ignatian trajectory,. Continues his postings on his retreat at the Wernersville (PA) Jesuit Center, with a reflection on imagination. If I could plagiarize hers about goodness. I recal...
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The Pastoral Is Political: Parenthood Is not Punishment | RevGalBlogPals
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A supportive community for clergywomen since 2005. The Pastoral Is Political: Parenthood Is not Punishment. May 11, 2015. I saw it again today: the argument that birth control is a way for women to have sex without consequence; that somehow single motherhood is the punishment for having a sexual relationship before marriage. Let us tease that apart a bit. Photo: Michal Zacharzewski / RGBstock. Yet somehow there is a recurring concept that women are trying to have sex without consequence – without p...
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Fragments of Grace 2: 06/25/16
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Fragments of Grace 2. Saturday, June 25, 2016. My Fantasy Life with a Mother. My personal experience, which I do not claim to be a universal one, was that after my mother died when she was 28 and I was seven, life went on, and I came to accept the new normal fairly quickly. What an astonishing thought! How had I missed that idea? I would have grown up in Florida, to which my parents were trying to move from Ohio. I would have grown up TWO BLOCKS FROM THE BEACH, where they had built a house. I would have ...
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Fragments of Grace 2: 08/10/16
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Fragments of Grace 2. Wednesday, August 10, 2016. Some years ago, a young man stopped me after church. His little daughter played happily in an empty pew behind us. “How will I know," he asked, “when the time comes – how will I know the difference between typical adolescent angst and something more sinister, something life-threatening? 8221; His sister, a young adult, had died of suicide; his father, grief-stricken, had followed her five years later. Need you to be present in our lives? Eight years. ...
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Fragments of Grace 2: 07/07/16
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Fragments of Grace 2. Thursday, July 7, 2016. Falling Out of Time A Stunning Chronicle of Parental Grief (Book Review). From the first page, I knew that this is a book in a category of its own. No . . . from the title, which I saw when I stumbled across it in a bookstore last week: I immediately guessed the topic, as we who have lost our children are the ones who speak of having fallen out of time. Lament for a Son. At first, the narative/poem/song/lament reminded me of Thornton Wilder's. I cannot recomm...
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Fragments of Grace 2: 04/29/16
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Fragments of Grace 2. Friday, April 29, 2016. I am pondering, these days, the next fifteen years of my life. Surrounded as I am by friends whose parents are requiring a great deal of attention and care, with a mother-in-law and father each having surgery in the next few weeks, and with not a few health problems of my own, I am well aware that, by the time I am 80 (in only seventeen short years! I will likely be much more limited in my capabilities and choices than I am now. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Fragments of Grace 2: 04/22/16
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Fragments of Grace 2. Friday, April 22, 2016. RevGals Friday Five from Monica. Is about houses, spurred by her first home purchase:. 1 What is the most important room in your home? What requirements do you have of this room? Sure, you can answer “bathroom,” but we can stipulate that as a reasonable assumption and you can pick the second most important room). 2 What is the least important room in your home? The one you use the least, or are not very picky about? My friends of 30 years are here. 4 If your ...
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Fragments of Grace 2: Inward Journey (Sermon)
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Fragments of Grace 2. Sunday, July 10, 2016. Tell her then to help me.” But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.” (Luke 10:38-42). I had another sermon planned and prepared. I had a plan. And then I read an essay by a friend whose white stepson is a law enforcement officer in Florida, and about how she recognizes the risks of his life, and the lives of...
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Fragments of Grace 2: Eight
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Fragments of Grace 2. Wednesday, August 10, 2016. Some years ago, a young man stopped me after church. His little daughter played happily in an empty pew behind us. “How will I know," he asked, “when the time comes – how will I know the difference between typical adolescent angst and something more sinister, something life-threatening? 8221; His sister, a young adult, had died of suicide; his father, grief-stricken, had followed her five years later. Need you to be present in our lives? Eight years. ...
