You’re More than Just Your Gifts: A Midsummer Reflection on the Rhetoric of the So-Called Purpose Driven Life
Since childhood, I have been a devotee of Episcopal summer camp experience.
Since childhood, I have been a devotee of Episcopal summer camp experience.
When we read Bible stories, we always want to cast ourselves as favorably as possible. Sure, we might not be the Forgiving Father – that’s clearly Jesus casting himself in his story, right? – but we could at least be the forgiven son. Except we usually aren’t.
Today we celebrate the Feast of the Annunciation, the moment when God sends an angel to a young, unknown, unimportant Jewish woman to announce that she will bear the Savior.
I don’t advise taking the trash out at midnight in sleet conditions.