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Book Review: Mary Magdalene Revealed

By Elizabeth H. Cottrell

Book Review: Mary Magdalene Revealed by Meggan Watterson
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UPDATE July 2023: I originally posted this review in 2021. Now it seems especially timely as a renewed debate rages over the role women should play in the Church. After Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) leaders meeting in New Orleans in mid-June 2023 voted to amend their constitution to disallow women from serving as a pastor […]

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Join Me On An Armchair Pilgrimage

By Elizabeth H. Cottrell

Pilgrimage: St. Aidan's Way
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UPDATE: If you’re reading this after the 3-week Aidan’s Way pilgrimage is over on Lectio 365, it will continue to be available from the 24-7 Prayer website so we can return to it any time.  This month, June 2023, “Lectio 365’s” founder, Pete Greig, is taking listeners along on “St. Aidans Way,” a three-week, 300-mile […]

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Let The Spirit Of St. Patrick Feed Your Heart And Soul

By Elizabeth H. Cottrell

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St. Patrick: the Irish saint who wasn’t Irish Patrick is known as the Apostle of Ireland. As a teenaged boy, he was captured and taken from Britain to Ireland as a slave, but he was later rescued and returned home in a ship, just as he had seen in a vision from God. Improbably, while […]

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Goodbye to Baby Jesus

By Elizabeth H. Cottrell

Manger Scene - Nativity Scene
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As a lifelong Episcopalian, I recognize today, January 6, as The Feast of Epiphany, the end of the twelve days of Christmas and a celebration of the revelation of God to mankind in human form, in the person of Jesus Christ. It is a time we say goodbye to baby Jesus and look ahead to […]

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Advent: The Season Of Breathless Anticipation

By Elizabeth H. Cottrell

Advent: season of breathless anticipation
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[Updated for 2022] Almighty God, give us grace to cast away the works of darkness, and put on the armor of light, now in the time of this mortal life in which your Son Jesus Christ came to visit us in great humility; that in the last day, when he shall come again in his […]

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Labor Day Gratitude For Those Whose Work Enriches Our Lives

By Elizabeth H. Cottrell

Labor Day Workers
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What is Labor Day? “Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country” [from the U.S. Department of […]

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Are You Clear About Clarity?

By Elizabeth H. Cottrell

Are you clear about clarity? Title, hands open in prayer.
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We all long for clarity around the decisions we must make in life, and I have been known to get downright cheeky with God when I ask for clarity about a certain situation.  If He could send Moses a talking, burning bush, couldn’t He spare me at least a whisper of guidance to help me […]

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The Easter Challenge: Agree to Love

By Elizabeth H. Cottrell

Easter Challenge: Agree to Love
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“To love, my brothers and sisters, does not mean we have to agree. But maybe agreeing to love is the greatest agreement. And the only one that ultimately matters, because it makes a future possible.” The Most Rev. Michael CurryPresiding Bishop and Primate of The Episcopal Church This Holy Week of 2022 is laden with […]

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