Magdalene's Musings

"To love oppressors in particular, or sinful human beings in general, is to have continual hope for them that they will stop their oppr...

Claims by filmmaker James Cameron that archaeologists have found the resting place of Jesus Christ, including an ossuary that contained Jes...

Please, go to "Don't Eat Alone" right away and read this . I wish I'd written it.

Then the devil led him up and showed him in an instant all the kingdoms of the world. And the devil said to him, “To you I will give their g...

My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why so far from my delivery So empty in the anguish of my words? I call to you in the daytime but ...

Everybody wants to be transformed, but nobody wants to change. If you truly want to be transformed you have to admit that you need to change...

Did I talk about Lynnette Scavo in my Ash Wednesday meditation? You know I did... “Who Knows?” Jonah 3:1-4:11 February 22, 2007 Ash Wednesda...

Yesterday Madpriest left this comment on my post "This Just In..." Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Stop being so greedy about "th...

On this sad, sad day on which a group of angry intercontinental ballistic bishops slapped down the dignified and brilliant Presiding Bishop...

On the front page of today's New York Times: everything that is wrong with this administration and this war. God help us.

I need to begin this post in utter honesty. My prayer practice is nothing to be emulated or admired. It is herky-jerky, characterized by fit...

“Beyond” Luke 9:28-36 February 18, 2007 We have a strange and intriguing story about Jesus in today’s lectionary, a story set side by side w...

What else is there to say? Now that's love.

The feast of St. Valentine or Valentinius was first added to the Christian calendar by an early medieval pope, who remarked that he was one ...

... and they keep saying the heavy snow starts this afternoon. Hmmm....

... for Mother God to give snow like wool and to scatter frost like ashes. We have been told by the National Weather Service that we are in ...

“Love Songs” Psalm 1 February 11, 2007 At the risk of being compared to Barbara Walters, I want to ask you a question. If you were a tree, w...

February 9, 2007 Evangelical Presbyterian Church woos PC(USA) congregations seeking to leave EPC Assembly will consider creating ‘New Winesk...

I have been an enthusiastic reader of blogs all over the blogosphere in which the troubles of the Episcopal Church in the US are being descr...

new job... planning and facilitating healing retreat... planning and facilitating workshop for newly ordained pastors... planning and facili...