Magdalene's Musings

We are an incredibly mobile society. The Census Bureau estimates that the average American will move about 14 times in a lifetime—a figure I...

Christmas is finally over. Even our sanctuary bears witness to that fact. Still. Indulge me for one brief moment, a Christmas Eve image. It ...

Our service this morning offers us a bridge between the Christmas season and what comes next—Epiphany, the Light of the world shining forth ...

It always comes as a shock, doesn’t it? The letdown after Christmas. Suddenly, you feel as if the sound of one more Christmas carol just mig...

“It’s all about the hospitality,” he says, my husband, Amos. He says that all the time. I suppose it makes sense. We’re innkeepers. What el...

Who or what draws us? By which I mean, for what or for whom would you stand in line, or go through security, or pay an exorbitant amount of ...

I have gone off-lectionary with this sermon. I was reading the marvelous Brian Stoffregen's commentary on the lectionary gospel , and he...

I once heard someone say, “You can tell your life story in two ways. You can say, ‘I can’t imagine how I got from there to here.’ Or, you ca...

In the year 999 of the Common Era, it was widely believed that the world was about to come to an end. The millennium approached, marking the...

Just how do we define ‘family’? The Random House Dictionary provides no fewer than fifteen different definitions, beginning with the one tha...

Just over two weeks ago, on a blustery October night, six youth and three adults from St. Sociable found themselves wandering through wooded...