Month: April 2015

new, with female hips – a birthing

The whole point of Easter is that God has decided to give birth to a new heaven and a new earth.  The question is this:  are we observers of a charming tradition or are we going to be pulled into the new with this event? This icon from Chora monastery...

Forget the second coming and focus on the second turning

When Jesus encounters Mary of Magdala in the resurrection garden of John's gospel, there is turning going on.  Look closely at the text (it follows below). 1.    She cannot see the jesus she is expecting to see. 2.    She turns towards a person (Jesus) but cannot see him because she...

Resurection doorways

In some monastic, eastern traditions, one pauses as one goes through a doorway. It is considered a liminal place- a place between places. A doorway can lead us from sunlight into darkness or from exposure into safety. This doorway is from eternity to resurrection. The doorway is a liminal place...

Easter Twilight

This is an image of the windows of the cathedral during the wandering prayer of pilgrims at the Wilderness Eucharist on Easter night.  A people meandered around the cathedral stations, making peace with peace, this light seemed to blast in from the west as the sun set on Easter Day,...

the Good of Glory on a Friday

This image of Jesus on the cross comes from an icon I found in a dusty little shop underground in Istanbul.  It is Russian, late 19th century and is round, about the size of a large dinner plate. I chose it because I was on my way to be a...

Fluent in Thunder – a poem for Holy Week

  Fluent In Thunder It is hard to imagine what She felt that week. She covers the planet in green, brown, blue and every color of the rainbow-reminder. She waves as wheat. She swoons as flower. She bears the massive responsibility of air as tree. She waits as water. She...