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This morning when I meditated, God came down and talked with me on the veranda. I was repeating after Hillary McBride of the Liturgists, softly, words that felt ridiculous to me: You are a unique being. There is no one … Continue reading →

Dear Claire, Your father and I were having pancakes at IHOP. We had just left the ultrasound appointment at the brand new Southcrest Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma where we found out that you would be a girl. Our firstborn child … Continue reading →

i saw your ad i am so mad my Langston, Maya-scrabbled pad is clenched in weeping praying hands i would like to join the band i roareth like a buffalo: change gon come yet another righteous man slaying savage raping … Continue reading →

I am a woman of raucously good faith, I am. I am thirty-seven and I have pink hair. Not exactly a scaredy-cat. But this ISIS stuff has got me spooked too. Or maybe I’m the worst cynic and bigot of … Continue reading →

Read Mark 15:33-41 At noon, darkness came over the whole land until three in the afternoon. And at three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why … Continue reading →

Read John 19: 1-17 Then Pilate took Jesus and had him flogged. The soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head. They clothed him in a purple robe and went up to him again and … Continue reading →

Read Mark 15:1-15 And as soon as it was morning, the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council. And they bound Jesus and led him away and delivered him over to Pilate. And … Continue reading →

Read Mark 14: 66-72 And as Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest came, and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked at him and said, “You also were with the Nazarene, Jesus.” … Continue reading →

Read Mark 14:43-52 And immediately, while he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. Now the betrayer had given … Continue reading →

Read Mark 14:32-42 And they went to a place called Gethsemane. And he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled. … Continue reading →