Stories

And now let us welcome the new year, Full of things that have never been.                           
Rainer Maria Rilke      

  The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness, on them light has shined.                           

By Sara Delaney We landed in Tacloban early on a Thursday morning, setting down on an airfield full of military planes and white UN tents. On the half-hour drive from the airport to where we would be staying, my mind tried to take in the new landscape. Where buildings and houses had once stood,

We all know that Mary rode a donkey as she and Joseph traveled from Nazareth to Bethlehem [1]. And all women who have given birth can truly appreciate the value of that donkey, given the 80-mile journey in the ninth month of pregnancy. Now more than 2,000 years later, donkeys are 

Recently, I became involved in a lengthy discussion of health care. But it had nothing to do with the current back-and-forth in this country.  Our guest was Dr. Daniella Flamenco, a soft-spoken 36 year-old physician with a quick smile. She runs the health program of the Episcopal Diocese of

  She will bear a son and they will call him Emmanuel, which means ‘God with us.’