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Ruth and Naomi “I will never leave you, where you go I will go..." "Ruth embodies the three classic biblical categories of the vulnerable person; she is widow, sojourner, and orphan-by-choice, having left her birth family to accompany Naomi to a foreign land, a small rural town

“God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God does require of us is that we not stop trying.” Bayard Rustin was an iconic Black, openly gay civil rights activist and an unsung saint who was an important leader in many social

Today, July 1st, is Pauli Murray’s Feast Day in the Episcopal Church. “Hope is a crushed stalk Between clenched fingers Hope is a bird’s wing Broken by a stone. Hope is a word in a tuneless ditty – A word whispered with the wind, A dream of forty acres and a mule, A cabin of

Happy Feast Day of St. Moses the Ethiopian. St. Moses was a slave of a government official in Egypt who dismissed him for theft and suspected murder. He eventually became the leader of a gang of hundreds of bandits who roamed the Nile Valley spreading terror and violence. After

“What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July? “I answer: a day that reveals to him, more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham; your boasted liberty, an unholy license; your

“Our Lady: Protectress of the Most Vulnerable” New Icon “Look with mercy, O heavenly Father, upon the people who live with injustice, terror, disease, and death as their constant companions. Have mercy upon us. Help us to eliminate our cruelty to these our neighbors. Strengthen

“Our Lady: Protectress of the Most Vulnerable” New Icon “Look with mercy, O heavenly Father, upon the people who live with injustice, terror, disease, and death as their constant companions. Have mercy upon us. Help us to eliminate our cruelty to these our neighbors. Strengthen

Quote of the Week: “In disarming Peter, Christ disarms all Christians.” ~Tertullian (160–220) Thinking about this quote again today. Icon: “Christ Breaks the Rifle” After Otto Pankok Giclee Signed Prints and Digital Downloads: kellylatimoreicons.com

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Today I joined hundreds walking to the ICE field office in Detroit, motivated by a truth that flows from the Gospel: Everyone has inherent dignity. We recognize this dignity above all else and seek to bring our nation back to its roots of charity, accompaniment, and welcome.

Quote of the Week: “Whenever I groan within myself and think how hard it is to keep writing about love in these times of tension and strife which may at any moment become for us all a time of terror, I think to myself, “What else is the world interested in?” What else do we all

“The Parable of the Mustard Seed” Jesus’ vision of a new community…. “Then Jesus asked, “What is the kingdom of God like? What shall I compare it to? It is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his garden. It grew and became a tree, and the birds of the air

Happy Feast Day of Mary Magdalene!!   “Mary Magdalene turned around and saw Jesus there, but she did not know it was Jesus…supposing him to be the gardener.” –John 20:14, 15   Mary Magdalene is the first person to encounter the risen Christ. It’s no accident that the gospel

Quite of the Week: “The Christian community, therefore, is that community that freely becomes oppressed, because they know that Jesus himself has defined humanity’s liberation in the context of what happens to the little ones. Christians join the cause of the oppressed in the

“Keep watch, dear Lord, with those who work, or watch, or weep this night, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend the sick, Lord Christ; give rest to the weary, bless the dying, soothe the suffering, pity the afflicted, shield the joyous; and all for your love’s

Quote of the Week: “If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.” ~Desmond Tutu Tutu was a South

Happy Birthday James Baldwin! “Love has never been a popular movement. And no one’s ever wanted, really, to be free. The world is held together, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of a very few people. Otherwise, of course, you can despair. Walk down the

It’s World Breastfeeding Week! ( yes this is real) August 1st-August 7th. “Mary Breastfeeding Baby Jesus” Referred to in the Latin as “Maria Lactans” or “Madonna del Latte”, in the Orthodox Church called “Galaktotrophousa”, Greek for “the milk giver” I had many requests to

Happy Feast Day of the Transfiguration! “Glitch Transfiguration” Like Peter in Matthew 17, we are often tempted to try and create our own transfigurations. Create our booths. Although we often mean well using grand displays of music, liturgy, and art to bring “The divine down

Happy Feast of the Transfiguration! ( Part2) Commissioned by St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Salisbury, North Carolina. This was my second attempt at painting an icon of the Transfiguration. Usually, Christ is painted in an all white robe, but instead we decided to represent