Finding comfort and inspiration in conviction, dignity, and song: Remembering John Lewis, a reflection by Alden Rockwell Murphy of St. Ann’s, Old Lyme. This video reflection was published in the Southeast “BLT: Blessed Little Thing” Newsletter on Saturday, September 12, 2020. View the full newsletter here. Alden Rockwell Murphy of St. Ann’s, Old Lyme, shares…
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Waterfall
This is a guest contributor post by Judy Benson, St. James’, New London. We also interviewed Judy Benson last year, read that interview here. Happenstance brought Angie and me to Wadsworth Falls State Park on that lavish June afternoon. It turned into a chance encounter with grace. Friends since childhood, we decided to meet at…
Holiness at Home
At the end of March, facing the closing of church buildings and the need to practice physical distancing and stay-at-home orders, the Rev. Stacey Kohl decided to embrace the Holiness at Home with a YouTube series for Christ Episcopal Church, Norwich. I reached out to Stacey to talk about how she came up with the…
Praying and Learning at Hammonasset Beach State Park
Saturday, I pilgrimaged around Hammonasset Beach State Park with 30 other Episcopalians. We visited four spots nearby the Meigs Point Nature Center. At each spot we prayed, learned, sang, and gave thanks. The gathering consisted mostly of folks from the Southeast and South Central Regions, and the prayers and litanies read were adapted from God’s Good…
Paddling Pilgrims on the Connecticut River
Last Monday, for Memorial Day, I joined the 2019 Connecticut River Pilgrims for a 7.5-mile trip from Rocky Hill to Middletown.
Meet Judy Benson: You can only watch from the outside for so long
Passion within one person can move hearts. Okay, this might not be as insightful as Jesus’ parable of faith the size of a mustard seed moving mountains, but with regards to Judy Benson, I think it is pretty spot on. I met Judy at a meeting I crashed in New London with the Rev. Rachel…
Faith, Love, and Courage: St. John’s, Essex and Diocese of Lebombo, Mozambique
In honor of World Mission Sunday in March, I had coffee with three men from St. John’s parish in Essex and talked about their relationship with the country of Mozambique, the Diocese of Lebombo, and Bishops Dinis Sengulane and Carlos Matsinhe.
Following God’s Footsteps of Mercy
I’ve lived a privileged life of callings. In middle school, I learned what it meant to be a counselor, and being a young woman raised in the church, I took this as a sign and began voraciously and zealously pursuing a higher education in psychology, starting with a Christian college.
