Welcome to the Bible to the blackbird

to the blackbird

The readings are ideal Lenten devotionals (but wonderful any other time of year as well) as you answer your own call of the desert

more relevant to who we are as a nation than when Diana Butler Bass’ examination of it in Broken We Kneel was first published 16 years ago

and it should help end the division between clergy and laity

” As one critic has noted

Welcome to the Bible to the blackbirdNew Episcopalians may be nervous about opening the Bible; others simply don't know how to begin. An often overlooked gift of the Episcopal Church is that the texts and doctrines of the Bible are embedded in its prayers, liturgies, and creeds. Making that knowledge explicit and placing it in context can open the way for further and more in depth study.