Jay (she/her) has been an Episcopalian since birth, in love with theology since she discovered footnotes, and, like many of you, has had a complicated, sometimes frustrating, sometimes life-giving relationship with clergy and Scripture.

Harriet Monsell’s life offers a countercultural freedom: the courage to love without needing results. A widowed woman who rebuilt her life at Clewer, she created sanctuary for those Victorian society discarded—not through programs or metrics, but through holy indifference, the spiritual practice of releasing outcomes to God. Her community loved without tiring, stayed without demanding transformation, and trusted God with what they could not fix. In an age obsessed with saving, measuring, and proving effectiveness, Monsell reminds us that faithfulness—not success—is the work. Love now; let God hold the rest.

Week 3 in the Good Lord Deliver Us series about the Great Litany as Survival Guide for the Via Media in Exile. Lent eventually stops being symbolic and becomes real. By Week Three, the wilderness strips away our illusions of control and leaves us facing the ancient question rising from every displaced people: Is the Lord among us or not? This week’s movement in the Great Litany—the obsecrations—teaches the via media how to survive exile by letting go of outcomes and grounding hope in what God has already done. Through water from the rock, the warning of Psalm 95, Paul’s stubborn logic of hope, and the Samaritan woman’s encounter with living water, we learn the discipline of holy indifference: releasing our grip on the future and trusting the One who meets us in the wilderness. Lent invites us to loosen our buckets, relinquish our strategies, and pray with honesty: Good Lord, deliver us.

Migration in America has always been a sacred act of survival — from the Great Migration to today’s border crossings to the quiet exodus of LGBTQ+ people fleeing hostile states. This piece traces how the Episcopal Church moved from standing over Black migrants to learning how to stand with those on the move today, including the Motahari sisters and others detained in the past year. It asks what memory demands of us now: whether we will let the stories of women who carried these movements become maps for justice, or whether we will confuse naming the damage with repairing it. Three migrations, one longing — to live, to be safe, to be welcomed. Tradition Remixed invites us to remember differently and move with the people still on the road.

The second installment in my Lenten series: Good Lord Deliver Us, The Great Litany as Exile Survival Kit. We have given voice to our grief. Now it’s time to look in the mirror and see how we came to be here. Based upon the Scripture readings for the Second Sunday in Lent (Year A)

A Theological Reflection on Grief, Formation and the Dignity We Lose Together When the Center is Pushed Out and Extremes Take Center Stage.

The first in my Lenten series “Good Lord Deliver Us: The Great Litany as Exile Survival Kit.” In a moment when the center has collapsed and the church finds itself wandering in a wilderness not of its choosing, the Great Litany and the First Sunday in Lent meet us with the same invitation: honesty. This reflection explores what it means for the via media to live as a people in exile and to rediscover lament as the first act of faithfulness. hrough Scripture—Jesus in the wilderness, Adam and Eve hiding, the psalmist confessing, Paul proclaiming grace—we learn that deliverance begins not with solutions but with truth-telling. Lament is the language of exiles, the prayer that refuses to hide, the cry from the depths to the God who still hears.

The Reverend Pauli Murray knew the wilderness long before Lent ever asked us to enter it. Her life—misnamed, delayed, resisted—mirrors the wilderness stories we hear on the First Sunday in Lent (Year A): eyes opened to the consequences of consciously choosing knowledge and making culture (Genesis 3:7), the ache of hiding and the relief of being seen (Psalm 32), the long arc from trespass to grace (Romans 5:12-19) and Jesus’ own clarity forged in the desert (Matthew 4:1-11). This Tradition Remixed reflection traces how Murray’s vocation, her delayed recognition, the stalled release of her commemorative quarter and the witness of My Name is Pauli Murray reveal a church still wandering in its own unfinished wilderness and the grace that persists anyway.

Ash Wednesday calls us into a season of honest reckoning, both personally and collectively. This reflection explores the Litany of Penitence as a communal act of clarity and courage, preparing us to live our weekly confession with deeper integrity and hope.

Exploring the Lord’s Prayer and Bad Bunny’s Halftime performance at the Super Bowl (2026). The Our Father is among the most widely known and said prayer in Christianity. A Tradition Remixed reflection about how hearing or saying the Padre Nuestro in Spanish affects how we engage with it.