Category Archives: story

Nevertheless, she preached

Posted on July 24, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

Seeing and hearing a woman preach, for the first time in my life, opened windows in my soul that I did not know had been barred shut. Continue reading →

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Mother of exiles

Posted on July 9, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

We gathered in song in a baseball park adjacent to the prison. Our hosts advised us that the women inside could hear us rallying and praying on their behalf. Continue reading →

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Your faith

Posted on July 1, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

A sermon for hard times. The readings include Mark 5:21-43, in which a woman with a 12-year chronic condition sneaks up to the hem of Jesus robe to be healed, and a child is restored to her parents. There is … Continue reading →

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David and Goliath

Posted on June 24, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

Jesus tells us several times that if we want to see God at work, we could do worse than to look to the children. “Let the little children come to me,” he said, “for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs;” and again, “Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it.” Continue reading →

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Feline mortal

Posted on June 7, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

till holding himself somewhat apart, as though some part of him were ready, already, for the next mile of his journey, perhaps he remembered that love is the greater part of life, that relationship is a surer path to wisdom even than philosophy. Continue reading →

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Spring fever

Posted on May 31, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

Riptide currents race through green fields revealing their true colours, wrecking sirens’ songs, drowning desire with their own unfettered appetites; they stain the earth with lively riot, catching into their whirling dance flotsam and jetsam, driftwood that passes this way, … Continue reading →

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Eleison

Posted on May 18, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

Christ, have mercy, we expostulate once more. Continue reading →

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The prayer bear

Posted on May 16, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

God as the she-bear protecting her cubs kept coming back around to haunt us. Continue reading →

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Our own devices

Posted on May 6, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

Small victories, born of God, have a profound effect on the people who encounter them. Small victories born of God, born of love, grow up to conquer the world Continue reading →

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Resurrection and reality

Posted on April 15, 2018 by Rosalind C Hughes

If you think that the world is so bewildering that nothing makes sense, Jesus has come so patiently to point out his hands, his feet, his broken body, his own spear-pierced heart, to tell us that he is with us, that he has redeemed all of it. Continue reading →

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