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About Rosalind C Hughes

Rosalind C Hughes is an Episcopal priest, poet, and author living near the shores of Lake Erie. After growing up in England and Wales, and living briefly in Singapore, she is now settled in Ohio. Rosalind is the author of A Family Like Mine: Biblical Stories of Love, Loss, and Longing , and Whom Shall I Fear? Urgent Questions for Christians in an Age of Violence, both from Upper Room Books. She loves the lake, misses the ocean, and is finally coming to terms with snow.

Telling stories: extracts from a sermon on Jesus in the Temple, aged twelve

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

I have a weakness, I confess, for all things biblical, especially stories, especially imaginative retellings of biblical stories, or poetry, or words, words, words … I am drawn like a moth to a flame to a new fictionalized gospel account, … Continue reading →

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Epiphany

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

Epiphany: A lightbulb moment. A parish church. A cake, a tradition. People going down to a snowy river in Russia to renew their baptismal promises in the freezing waters. The other Christmas. Magi, wise men, kings; gold, frankincense, myrrh; Herod … Continue reading →

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Following

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

The brightness beckoning, reckoning light years away, in the beginning, there was a star which now calls them from afar to follow, stumbling in the daytime, in the forests, fog-filled valleys, rallying with breathless joy on the mountaintop where all … Continue reading →

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A GOEs prayer, reblogged

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

Originally posted on over the water:
My prayer for those (especially Jon, Adam, Lisa, Michael, Linda, Katherine, and Jennifer) taking GOEs (General OrdinationExaminations set by the General Board of Examining Chaplains of the Episcopal Church) this week: All-knowing God, Grant, I…

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The naming of cats, children, and wonderful counsellors

Posted on January 1, 2013 by Rosalind C Hughes

Recently a parishioner handed me a list she had come across of fifty names for Jesus given to him in scripture – fifty shades of great, perhaps? There were some wonderful titles, but I don’t think that in the whole … Continue reading →

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New Year’s Eve: A Litany

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

January For resolutions unresolved, promises forgotten, commitments that crumbled, God forgive me. February From the long darkness save me; from coldness of heart deliver me. March For those who hunger, for those who thirst, may we who fast from overindulgence, … Continue reading →

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Holy Innocents

Posted on December 28, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

The hard historical evidence for the massacre of the innocents of Bethlehem may be sketchy, thank God, yet the meme pervades our culture, from Moses to Jesus; even though we can barely comprehend the idea, we admit it to our … Continue reading →

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Christmas haiku

Posted on December 25, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

Christmas Day When we pray to a newborn baby, naked, poor whom angels adore

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Christmas Day: John’s Prologue

Posted on December 25, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

Two of the three gospel readings that are offered for Christmas services in our lectionary use the story of the nativity from Luke, the story acted out in Christmas pageants and plays, the story of the manger and the shepherds … Continue reading →

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Christmas Eve: Good news

Posted on December 24, 2012 by Rosalind C Hughes

“I am bringing you good news of great joy for all the people.” Good news. “To you is born this day a Saviour, the Messiah, the Lord.” Good news indeed. The shepherds were, it is safe to say, not used … Continue reading →

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