Singing Along the Journey

Mabel

What I’m learning in seminary…and the story continues…

It is once again that time when my colleagues at Virginia Theological Seminary are writing their Ember letters to their supporters and most of all to their supporting Bishops in their home dioceses.  And once again, I thought that I would join in the fun with my very own Baptist version of the ritual...a blog post. The topic "What I'm Learning in Seminary" is simultaneously a broad one and a limited one, because the truth is that my learning in my seminary classes only succeeds when that act of learning and the information I take in works to transform my life, my relationship with my God, and my ability to…
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Mabel and Me

I've been thinking a lot lately about my mother.  Maybe it's been because a friend of mine is experiencing a lot of issues with her mother, maybe it's because of Easter and the proximity of Mother's Day, maybe it's because I'm around the same age now as my mother was when I was born, or maybe it's because of that spiritual biography I had to write this week for my licensing committee.  But I've been thinking a lot about my mother. My mother didn't have an easy life.  I never knew her mother, my grandmother, but I hear that she was a very strong woman.  She raised three children on her…
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What I’m learning in seminary…and the story continues…

It is once again that time when my colleagues at Virginia Theological Seminary are writing their Ember letters to their supporters and most of all to their supporting Bishops in their home dioceses.  And once again, I thought that I would join in the fun with my very own Baptist version of the ritual...a blog post. The topic "What I'm Learning in Seminary" is simultaneously a broad one and a limited one, because the truth is that my learning in my seminary classes only succeeds when that act of learning and the information I take in works to transform my life, my relationship with my God, and my ability to…
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Mabel and Me

I've been thinking a lot lately about my mother.  Maybe it's been because a friend of mine is experiencing a lot of issues with her mother, maybe it's because of Easter and the proximity of Mother's Day, maybe it's because I'm around the same age now as my mother was when I was born, or maybe it's because of that spiritual biography I had to write this week for my licensing committee.  But I've been thinking a lot about my mother. My mother didn't have an easy life.  I never knew her mother, my grandmother, but I hear that she was a very strong woman.  She raised three children on her…
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