In Sacred Journeys, the season of Lent begins with a week of reflections titled “An Inhuman Sacrifice: The Unnamed Daughter of Jephthah.” This tale from the book of Judges is a wrenching story with which to start the season. For much of my life, I wasn’t familiar with this text—they certainly didn’t teach it to […]
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An Inhuman Sacrifice: Monday, Lent 1
Monday, March 7th, 2011
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Leaning into Lent
Sunday, March 6th, 2011
When I was growing up, both sets of my grandparents had summer homes next to one another on a lake in central Florida. One of the lake houses is still in our family, and Gary and I spent part of the afternoon there today. The small house brims with memories, many of which came to […]
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A Season of Spiraling
Sunday, March 6th, 2011
Night into Day into Night © Jan Richardson It’s good to be back in the Sanctuary after a while away! I’ve recently wrapped up a wonderful but intense stretch of events and travels and am enjoying settling back into a more normal rhythm of life—as normal as it ever gets around here—and hunkering down to […]
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Golden, Sparkling Flame: Feast of St. Brigid
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
Brigid © Jan L. Richardson A blessed Brigid’s Day to you! February 1 is one of my favorite days on the calendar: the Feast of St. Brigid of Kildare, the beloved Irish saint. Born in the middle of the 5th century, Brigid became a powerful leader of the early church in Ireland. She established a […]
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The Women’s Christmas
Wednesday, January 5th, 2011
Wise Women Also Came © Jan L. Richardson This past year I was delighted to learn of a women’s tradition connected with Epiphany, which falls on January 6 and marks the end of the Christmas season. There is a custom, rooted in Ireland, of celebrating Epiphany as Women’s Christmas, called Nollaig na mBan in Irish. […]
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Solstice: A Woman in Winter
Tuesday, December 21st, 2010
A Woman in Winter © Jan L. Richardson We were up late enough last night to see the start of the lunar eclipse. It looked like the moon was wearing a beret, just a touch of an upper curve lying in shadow. It has been nearly four hundred years since a lunar eclipse occurred on […]
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Mother Root
Tuesday, December 14th, 2010
Mother Root © Jan L. Richardson Over at my blog The Advent Door, I recently posted a reflection on Joseph, that remarkable and ordinary man who attended to his dreaming and chose to remain with Mary and with the child she would bear. So powerful was Joseph’s choice that both scripture and history merged Jesus’ […]
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Woman, Waiting
Saturday, December 11th, 2010
All Creation Waits © Jan L. Richardson And so we come to Advent, this sacred season of expectation and anticipation that draws us toward the festival of Christmas. In these days there is much talk of waiting; it is the enduring theme of Advent, and rightly so. For a culture that so often moves too […]
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Feast of All Saints: Sanctuary among the Shelves
Monday, November 1st, 2010
A Gathering of Spirits © Jan L. Richardson Six months into our marriage, my husband and I have recently found ourselves in the midst of a wondrous phenomenon: we are home at the same time from our respective travels, and we are, for a little while, free of the major deadlines that we lived with […]
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