by John Brett Grace and peace to you good people of St John the Evangelist Episcopal Church and welcome to all visitors present, whether in the courtyard with us today or beyond in the wide world of Zoom. As we gather close today in community, may each of us find here a hem of Jesus’s …
by the Rev. Dr. Lisa Fortuna Juneteenth 2021 As the Gospel of Luke tells, it, at the beginning of his public ministry Jesus, filled with the power of the Spirit, returned to Galilee… He reads to the people from the scroll of the prophet Isaiah the same words that we just heard: “God has sent …
by The Rev’d Lisa Fortuna, M.D. My grandmother, Tomasa, a devout Catholic all of her life would often say to me—you know Iwas clearly named after St. Thomas. “You need to show me things”, she would say. “I am notalways going to believe something just because someone tells me so, not even the priest or …
How, in such terrible times, can I take this Sunday to preach about what it means to be a woman before God? How, when humanity is in crisis, can I dare to focus on the concerns of only one part of humanity? Maybe it’s because as women know that, even along the path to liberation, there will always be a crisis, an emergency, a greater priority, that must postpone the day of claiming our full humanity until a later time, when other, more important, issues have first been resolved. And it’s because those crises are genuine and pressing that women so often choose to relinquish our particular claims as women in favor of the greater good. In this, we are a bit like the mother who, rather than see King Solomon cut her baby in half, offered it to another woman…
