Articles – Poems – Announcements

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Articles and Announcements

Episcopal Church Women Stand in Solidarity with Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women

July 3rd, 2025|

The National Episcopal Church Women (ECW) is called to action in support of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW), a crisis affecting Indigenous communities across the United States and beyond. As faithful women of prayer, compassion, and advocacy, the ECW recognizes the urgency of raising awareness, supporting healing, and partnering with Indigenous leaders to bring justice and protection to Native sisters and their families. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, Indigenous women face murder rates more than ten times the national average in some areas, and thousands of Native women and girls have gone missing or been murdered [...]

Poems

Praying with Sparrows – A poem of the 2020 pandemic

September 4th, 2020|

Praying with Sparrows A poem of the 2020 pandemic I never thought to pray with sparrows, black throated wild and scrambling for seeds cast carelessly on the hillside. They hover throughout the hours like unceasing prayers Giving thanks when no words can. Warily they brave the rains, the frenzied force, even my hoarse voice an unknown thunder in their world. Spring’s worst storms roll by and they sing unheard, choral chirping drowned in human despair Yet the birds of heaven will teach us. Tomorrow I will not seek the wood-dark birds; I must wait for monochrome March skies to bend [...]