Author Archives: Rosalind C Hughes

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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.

Unfair

Posted on September 24, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

You do not reward us according to our loveableness, thank God, you are less fair, unlike our exacting, you err always on the side of mercy, balancing justice by melting down wood and iron, recasting the scales to create love’s … Continue reading →

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A prayer for the end of the world

Posted on September 20, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

Make all things new; but do not rush forward to your new creation. Do not leave us alone at the end of the world. Continue reading →

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Apocalypse and Passover

Posted on September 10, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

In times such as these, our prayer is not for God to pass us by, nor to turn a blind eye. Our prayer is for God to be with us, to share with us a sign of God’s covenant: the blood poured out, the meal hastily shared. Continue reading →

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Religion and politics: a match made in heaven

Posted on September 8, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

The one who pulls us out of the pit is Jesus; himself not unfamiliar with politics and prayer. Continue reading →

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Breaking 

Posted on September 5, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

codified, commodified,  corralled in free fall; if no one will  stretch out her arms to pluck you from the unsolid state, unsuspended, groundless, unfounded, such weightlessness, spooling out forever

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Overcome

Posted on September 3, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

What should a disaster preparedness plan for a church look like? Continue reading →

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A few affirmations and denials

Posted on August 30, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

There is nothing missing from God’s love for you. There is no gap to mind. God loves you. Continue reading →

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Living parables

Posted on August 27, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

he parables within which we live are those of Moses’ mother, who shares in the history of God, remembering creation, rebuilding the ark, reclaiming her son to raise and to nurse, her love subverting the powers of imperialism even in its most beautiful and seductive form, the young woman bathing by the river. Continue reading →

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Listen to her

Posted on August 20, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

This woman’s daughter deserved the same kind of health outcomes as her counterparts within the network of Jesus’ family, tribe, race, and creed. Continue reading →

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It’s not my place to say

Posted on August 18, 2017 by Rosalind C Hughes

Did I squirm? I’m sure I tried to pass it off as a settling of my old, white bones in an uncomfortable chair. Continue reading →

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