Who Mary Is To Me: A Survivor’s Story

Who Mary Is To Me: A Survivor’s Story

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and heart of little children.” -W.M. Thackeray Mary. Her story triggering to me year after year. Lack of consent in the name of a man’s will is triggering for any survivor of assault and abuse. You see, to survivors, it...
A Mother’s Blessing For My Daughters

A Mother’s Blessing For My Daughters

It is impossible to be a mother of both sons and daughters and not notice external and even internal biases that are imposed upon our children. Blue for boys, pink for girls. Trucks for boys, dolls for girls. But there are also covert biases that exist. Recently, a...
Standing Between Covenants

Standing Between Covenants

This past Saturday, I received my endowment under the “old” covenant wording. So the very recent announcement about the changes came as a total shock. I naturally began to wonder if the covenants I made to my husband not even a week ago was suddenly retroactive. How...

God’s Gender Identity Crisis

Recently it was announced in a news report that the Episcopal Church is considering going gender-neutral when it comes to God.  A committee was formed to review the best way to amend the Book of Common Prayer, removing any exclusively male language from the text, both...
Apostasy and the Occult

Apostasy and the Occult

When many consider the Temple Recommend Interview “apostasy” question, we automatically think of Ordain Women and other “apostate” groups, or perhaps even holding opposing (political) views from that of our Bishop. But this is not the only possible interpretation....