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Articles and Announcements

Season of Creation We are Living Waters Week 5

August 24th, 2026|

What are the Episcopal Church Women to do? Are we the women at the well? Are we the woman protecting the well?  In ancient Israel, maintaining the household was the work of the woman. Carrying jars or skins of water weighing 35–45 lbs (16–20 kg) on the head or hip was not unusual regardless of one’s age. In the video from week 2, “Living without Clean Water,” 12-year-old Tarique made that trek every day to gather dirty water to bring back to her family. Remember the man? He had difficulty keeping up with a 12-year-old (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPxMOzN0Uq4). In Genesis 24:18-20, [...]

Poems

The Knitting Shoppe

April 20th, 2020|

I finger the yarn, Checking its strength and quality, Comparing the weights and colors. The shop keeper watches me, Unsure and unconvinced. I am a foreign woman in a foreign land. Possessing only the barest words of her language. I pick up a particularly beautiful skein. It is soft and obviously hand-dyed. And sighing the sigh of true appreciation I meet her eye and breathe, “Sehr shon”.     (There are umlauts over the ‘o’, ..) “Very lovely.” She stops, Then beams, Proud that the quality Of the material she loves Transcends. We nod in agreement As women (and knitters) will [...]