After finding a church where I feel at least to some degree at home and grow to love the Christian ritual… I hit an obstruction.
Blog Posts on Religion
The Feast of Saint Stephen
As the old song says, “Ye who now do bless the poor/Shall yourselves find blessing.”
The Other Mary
Surrounded as I am, and as all of us are, by unbelievers, I search for my own moments of connection with the Gospels, my own slender path out of the deep despair of agnosticism.
Ash Wednesday
Over my long writing career, I’ve kind of resigned myself to being a Cassandra: the voice in the wilderness that speaks, or writes, about things most people would rather ignore and forget.
Revising Ikons
The image of Mary as “Virgin Mary, Meek and Mild” has been a problem for many women and probably some men during the 100 years when this became her most common representation.
These Young Men
We are deep into another recreation of a woman-hating culture when the gains we’d painfully achieved in the 1960’s are overridden by darkness…
Who Left the Prayerbook by the Road?
Looking at it closely, I saw that it had been much used, the gilt on the edges of the pages half worn off, the pages themselves, thin as onion skin, dry and vulnerable.
You Said It
It was a surprise to find myself on Palm Sunday, at the end of a crowd of several hundred people, following a cross through midtown Manhattan with police cars barring traffic.
Lamentations
Lent is about to begin. Let us all get on our knees, whatever faith or lack of faith we hold and say one of the prayers from the Ash Wednesday service…
Why I Believe
I have no other way to accept—or begin to accept—the tragedies over four generations that have engulfed my birth family.