Category Archives: current events

To whom shall we go?

Posted on August 22, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

I do not know another way that leads to eternal life, in this life and the next. I do know that if I abide in him, however imperfectly, he will stay with me, for he is faithful, and merciful, and his love endures for ever. Continue reading →

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Prayer for a day when there are no words

Posted on August 16, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

I do not have words to imagine the prayers of the falling.It feels ironic to light a candlewhen fires burn freely and fast;to kneel as though the earth might otherwiseflee from beneath me.Breathing has becomean act of defiance. Baptism threatens to flood … Continue reading →

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A sustaining hope

Posted on August 8, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

The interventions of God, strength for the journey, can come from humans sweating over laboratory test tubes as easily and as often as angels baking on hot stones. Continue reading →

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Vaccines, masks, love, and religion

Posted on August 4, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

For the love of Christ, let’s take care of this body, with tenderness, respect, selflessness, wisdom, and love, so that in good time and good health, we may rejoice together. Continue reading →

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Some people are never satisfied

Posted on August 1, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

I wonder how many evictions one trip into the atmosphere could offset. Continue reading →

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A red, white, and blue sermon

Posted on July 4, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

Might we be just a little afraid of what might happen if we allow ourselves truly to be changed, converted, transformed by the grace of our Saviour, Jesus Christ? Are we just a little concerned about going against the flow of popular culture, painting with a different brush, suggesting that mercy is greater than might and love more lasting than power; that even the great and the wise need repentance? Are we afraid to trade in our red, and blue, and whiteness for something in a soft velour? Continue reading →

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Trinity Sunday: we who are many are one

Posted on May 30, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

It is the mutuality of the Trinity that we seek. We hear its echoes in our prayers: “though we are many, we are one body” (Romans 12:5). We come closest to it when we experience compassion. Continue reading →

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Prayer for an end to mass shootings

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

My God,can we not go one week,sabbath to sabbath,without a mass shooting? Will you not beatour pistols into ploughshares,our shotguns into shovels,our rifles into rakes,massage some feeling intoour hearts of stone? I sigh, open my eyes;the mirror stares back in … Continue reading →

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Let justice roll like a river; still waters can wait

Posted on April 24, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

There is no way of praying Psalm 23 truthfully, honestly, lovingly, in this time and place that does not acknowledge that there are no still waters, there can be no resting in meadows, when violence threatens to break in at any moment. There is no peace while injustice holds sway anywhere among us. Continue reading →

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Good Friday: a pieta

Posted on April 2, 2021 by Rosalind C Hughes

He died with the cry crushed from his chest,calling out from the cross to his mother.They crucified him on a stolen hill.They gambled away his clothes.He called out to his mother, shecould not swaddle his naked pain. When he was … Continue reading →

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