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My morning view from my sanctuary.I love sitting on the balcony in the morning with a cup of coffee or a glass of wine in the evening. There’s something about this little corner of my… Read More
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2023-04-08 02:07
Picture: Jephthah’s Daughter at The Art Institute of Chicago.
Judges 11:29-40; Psalm 22; Hebrews 12:1-4; Luke 22:14–23:56 (Readings from A Woman’s Commentary for the… Read More
2022-02-22 10:00
Wintering by Katherine Mays is a memoir written when Mays’ health forced her to take a sabbatical from her job. Her own personal winter (depression) happened during an actual winter… Read More
2022-02-21 22:50
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich is a surreal, eerie novel that combines the concreteness of the pandemic and the social unrest of 2020 with a ghost story set in a bookstore in Minneapolis. E… Read More
2022-01-17 20:22
Can knitting save the world?I’ve had two ideas swirling around my head for a couple of years. The first Patricia McKillip gave me in her book Solstice Wood. The book features a group o… Read More
2021-06-01 17:13
The Earth Is Full of God’s Glory (Isaiah 6:1-8; John 3:1-17: Trinity Sunday, Year B)
“In the year King Uzziah died,” Isaiah said, and those who were listening shuddered… Read More
2021-03-31 19:00
The Two Marys by James Tissot
The women of Holy Week frame the Passion of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark. Mark’s Passion Narrative began in chapter 14 with the female prophet who anoin… Read More
2021-03-29 22:21
The Widow’s Mite by James C. Christensen
The women of Holy Week have always fascinated me. Apart from a passing glance at the foot of the cross, the church ignores them. It doesn&rs&hell…Read More
2021-03-22 22:08
Last year in February I started planning my birthday. It was my 50th, and I planned a bash. We rented out our building’s Party Room, planned the menu with my good friend Kim Callis… Read More
2021-03-21 22:39
Podcast: The Hour Has ComeJohn 12:20-36 (Lent 5B)
A lot has happened in the Gospel of John by the time today’s reading happened. On the First Sunday of Christmas, we heard about how… Read More
2021-03-15 21:10
When a few different friends told me they weren’t sure if they were going to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day this year, I knew what Lenten practice I was going to focus on for th… Read More
2021-03-08 20:41
Practicing gratitude is this week’s theme? I can already see you roll your eyes. Yes, I know this is a cliched buzzword, which probably explains why I had only one friend respond t… Read More
2021-03-04 23:18
Life changes, so I bake.
How life changes never ceases to amaze me. In my most recent post on Lenten practices, I tagged a post I had written in 2008. First, how can 2008 be 13 years ago?… Read More
2021-03-01 20:59
Last year when we began to social distance and shelter in place, we said it was “the lentiest Lent we ever lented.” Little did we know Lent was going to last for a year (at l… Read More
2020-08-31 16:12
Exodus 3:1-15; Romans 12:9-21; Matthew 16:21-28 (Year A, Proper 17)
I wonder if Moses ever thought: “I should’ve just walked right by that bush and acted like it was a mirage… Read More
2019-12-16 20:34
Are You The One
Isaiah 35:1-10; Matthew 11:2-11 (Year A, Advent 3)
As
a cynical and sarcastic pessimist, I have a soft spot in my heart for
what I call The Old Curmudgeons of the B… Read More
2018-03-12 18:30
Into the Wilderness
Numbers 21:4-9 (Lent B, Week 4)
http://www.shawnaatteberry.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Into-the-wilderness-.mp3From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea… Read More
2017-09-07 17:59
Why So Serious? The Women of Exodus and Chutzpah
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost (Proper 16, Year A)Exodus 1:8–2:10
http://www.shawnaatteberry.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Why-So-Se… Read More
2017-03-27 00:04
This site is now back up and running. It was hacked last fall, and as it is more or less an archive of my religious writing, fixing it wasn’t high up on the priority list. But my wonde… Read More
2016-08-08 15:49
Last year I wrote a review of Megan Defranza‘s Sex Difference in Christian Theology: Male, Female, and Intersex in the Image of God, sent it to the editor of the Englewood Review… Read More
2016-07-18 15:10
Year C, Proper 11: Luke 10:38-42
Christ in the House of Mary and Martha by Vincenzo Campi
(This sermon is dedicated to the Marthas of Chicago Grace Episcopal Church: Doreen Baker and Kim Cal… Read More
2016-07-18 15:10
Year C, Proper 11: Luke 10:38-42
Christ in the House of Mary and Martha by Vincenzo Campi(This sermon is dedicated to the Marthas of Chicago Grace Episcopal Church: Doreen Baker and Kim Call… Read More
2016-05-11 18:01
When God Says No
(Acts 16:6-15, Easter 5C)
[Paul, Silas, and Timothy] went through the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to speak the word in Asia. When… Read More
2016-02-01 17:00
St. Brigid icon by Katherin Burleson
February 1 is the feast day of St. Brigid of Kildare. Brigid is one of my favorite saints. The primary reason she is one of my favorites is because we ca… Read More
2016-02-01 16:31
Epiphany: Finding the Way HomeMatthew 2:1-13
Epiphany by Janet McKenzie.
“We three kings of Orient are;
Bearing gifts we traverse afar,
Field and fountain, moor and mountain,
Following… Read More
2015-09-24 17:02
Fellow Chicago writers, I will be attending the Chicago Writers Conference this weekend. If you want to get together, text me at 312.933.3599. I’d loved to meet up with you!
Post Foote… Read More
2015-09-20 13:05
The Proverbs 31 Woman: Dame Wisdom in ActionProverbs 31:10-31
Ah, the Proverbs 31 woman, let me count the ways I hate thee. I grew up hearing about this woman every Mother’s Day. How s… Read More
2015-04-03 15:15
The past few years I have been on a mission to write, preach, and teach the women of Holy Week back into our Holy Week liturgies, practices, and Scriptures. In this post we’ll learn ab… Read More
2015-04-02 15:00
I preached this sermon Maundy Thursday, 2012 at Grace Episcopal Church.
(Click the link “Anointing the King” to hear or download the MP3.)
Anointing The King
Mark 14… Read More
2015-03-31 17:40
The past few years I have been on a mission to write, preach, and teach the women of Holy Week back into our Holy Week liturgies, practices, and Scriptures. In this post we’ll learn a… Read More
2015-01-29 19:34
Rev. Jann Aldredge-Clanton has given this gracious review for the Divine Feminine Version of the New Testament:
Congregations who are striving toward more inclusive worship will welcome this… Read More
2015-01-27 20:10
A friend on Facebook reminded me that today was the commemoration of Dorcas, Lydia, and Phoebe. Who you may ask? Let me tell you all about them:
Dorcas
Now in Joppa there was a discipl… Read More
2015-01-27 20:10
A friend on Facebook reminded me that today was the commemoration of Dorcas, Lydia, and Phoebe. Who you may ask? Let me tell you all about them:
Dorcas
Now in Joppa there was a discipl… Read More
2015-01-06 17:05
On New Year’s Eve I joined one of my best friends, Bishop Lainie Petersen, on the Talk Gnosis podcast, in which we are our usual feminist and irreverent selves. I can’t beat the… Read More
2014-12-21 15:04
2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16; Luke 1:46b-55 or Psalm 89:1-4, 19-26; Romans 16:25-27; Luke 1:26-38
Year B, Advent 4
“The Holy Spirit had to come upon [Mary] and the power of the Most High had to… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The God of the Dead The Fifth Sunday in Lent, Year A Ezekiel 37:1-14; John 11:1-42 The rocking chair was old, but it had been well made, and it’s structure was solid. It had been handm… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Congratulations to Susan Curry for winning the $25 Amazon.com gift card! Thank you to all of you who bought my book this last month. I really appreciate it. I’d love to know what you t… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Today is my birthday! Today is the last day to enter to win a $25 Amazon.com gift card! You have until 5:00 p.m. CDT today to buy my book and email me ([email protected]) your order… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I originally preached this sermon in Lent, 2008. Meeting God at Wells 3rd Sunday in Lent (Year A) John 4:4-30, 39-42 Water. Life is dependent on it. In biblical times this meant wells and sp… Read More
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