Acts of Hope

Thanks to my friend Moira (the same one for whom some of you have been praying ) for leading me to this icon by Bill McNichols (William Hart...

Thank Godde for friends who say things better than we can and have more time to say it. My friend Chris has posted a photo of and tribute to...

I have been reading books and articles related to women in the worldwide church , or rather, to women AS worldwide church. What's the d...

I have great fondness and respect for His All Holiness Patriarch Bartholomew. Time Magazine has just recognized him for his religious and e...

Christos Anesti! Or if you prefer, Christos Voskres! It is Orthodox Easter (Pascha) , and this comes with prayers for our Orthodox Christia...

Please pray for the repose of the soul of John , the brother of my friend Katherin, brother-in-law of her spouse, my friend and colleague Ib...

Chora Church, a.k.a. Holy Saviour in the Country, a.k.a. Kariye Müzesi , Kariye Camii , or Kariye Kilisesi ( the Chora Museum, Mosque or Chu...

Swamped again... Sigh. To the left and below are a few preview photos of my two trips to the Asian side of the Bosphorus. The tale with pho...

A church sort of day: morning worship with the local Anglicans (smells and bells!) and afternoon at the breathtaking church of St. Saviour ...

Yesterday afternoon: Haghia Sophia, with the tourists. Huge, astounding former church, former mosque, now museum. Imagining Orthodox liturgi...

I put this up on the other blog yesterday for All Saints' Day, and although I don't want to double-post much, I can't resist po...

Triptychon: Mary with Jesus and the Archangels Gabriel and Mikael surrounded by various Ethiopian Saints

Glory hallelujah. It is pouring rain after weeks and weeks of drought in this part of North Carolina. This doesn't mean the drought is ...

It's Ferragosto in Italy, a Roman (as in the emperor Augustus) holiday turned Marian, and in the Orthodox, Catholic, and Anglican commu...

Yet another fabulous woman. I can't keep up . I just love the fact that on a single day we celebrate a woman and her grandson. Or, to pu...

July, as I have noted before , is a month of fabulous holy women in the calendar of the saints. Today, July 19 , the Episcopal Church invit...

16th century Orthodox icon from the Balkans. (Thanks to St. Mary's Orthodox Church in Chambersburg, PA.)

What kind of Anglican would I be if I didn't honor Alban, martyr in Britain? I'm in the middle of a day of writing work, with a bit ...

This one is by Solomon Raj, Indian Lutheran theologian and artist. I also just found this other one, but alas the website on which I locate...

There’s a combo! Today’s People of the Day in the Episcopal Church: Jackson Kemper , missionary bishop (1789-1870) Nicolas Copernicus , pri...