Three years after John and I married, he was let go from Gallaudet because they were replacing hearing administrators (even if they signed fluently) with those who were deaf. Seven months later he was offered the position of Vice President for Academic Affairs at a small college in Dover...
Mark’s teachers said they knew by his behavior when he had talked with his dad. But Art didn’t limit his influence just to the telephone. He came to Maryland, ostensibly to spend the weekend with Mark. Later that night, as I was getting into my car, I found papers...
As we left Texas and drove toward Washington, I felt free. It seemed that God was giving me a second chance at life that was 180 degrees from my previous 49 years. The drive through Virginia was Christmas card beautiful. Sparkling snow covered the mountains and pine trees, smoke curled out...
Stations of the Cross Video from The Episcopal Diocese of Texas on Vimeo. The Stations are: Jesus is condemned to death Jesus carries his cross Jesus falls the first time Jesus meets his mother Simon of Cyrene helps Jesus to carry the cross Veronica wipes the face of...
My son and daughter-in-law, Doug and Pam, lived on acreage southeast of Austin. They borrowed a large travel trailer from friends and set it up for Mark and me in a spot through the woods from their own mobile home. I already was getting disability payments and now got them for Mark...
Fill Me, Use Me... for the Work of Ministry: Lenten study resource offered by the Episcopal Church's Office of Black Ministries
TO SEEK TO TRANSFORM UNJUST STRUCTURES OF SOCIETY
Week 4
Opening Ritual
Set the prayer table and light the candle. Invite someone to read a prayer or pray...
SSJE Praying Our Lives: Listen
If God seems distant or uncommunicative these days, maybe your're simply not listening. God doesn’t shout: God’s first language is silence. Maybe in your prayers you are doing too much talking and not enough listening.
– Br. Geoffrey...
One of the great American authors has to be Jack Kerouac, whose works ranged from the novels that depicted his bohemian traveling days of wandering across America like On the Road (typed in three weeks on a single roll of paper) to his book Big Sur. He was styled as the father of spontaneous...
St. David's, Austin, is holding Lenten Concerts at Noon every Thursday during Lent. Don't miss these upcoming concerts: Feb. 28: Britten's Abraham and Isaac: Countertenor Will Konitzer & tenor David Stevens (pictured)Mar. 7: Baroque Music for Two Trumpets and Organ: Timothy Shaffer...
I had been raised in church; we were there every time the doors were open. I tried to do what was right, so I thought I was a pretty good Christian. One day, after a visit from my cousin and his wife, I was sitting on the well talking with God. “Father, I’m supposed to be...