March 11, 2024

The Priesthood of All Believers

March 11, 2024/ Elsa Worth

This is a mystical idea, really - that God’s presence with us in our suffering, vulnerability and pain shows us the way to new life - not just as individuals, but as a whole world.

March 04, 2024

Healing

March 04, 2024/ Elsa Worth

I wondered, as a child, why people in medicine used a snake on a pole as their symbol.

February 27, 2024

Commerce

February 27, 2024/ Elsa Worth

Is there no place to escape advertising?

February 19, 2024

The Way

February 19, 2024/ Elsa Worth

Lent is the season in which we are most aware of God’s own suffering - both for us and with us.

January 29, 2024

Becoming

January 29, 2024/ Elsa Worth

How does he even think that one can become all things to all people? And why would anyone except a raging narcissist want to?

January 15, 2024

What is First?

January 15, 2024/ Elsa Worth

Paul’s words seem rather Buddhist in their recommendation to ‘let go’ of the things that tether us to earth.

January 08, 2024

Gifts

January 08, 2024/ Elsa Worth

With open hearts and minds to both wisdom and change, we can be a gift to one another, no matter what our points of view.

January 01, 2024

Beloved

January 01, 2024/ Elsa Worth

Did anyone else see the dove? Did anyone else hear God’s voice?

December 18, 2023 December 18, 2023/ Elsa Worth

Sometimes people think Mary is the highest example of faith because she was able to truly believe things that are practically unbelievable.

December 04, 2023

John the Baptist

December 04, 2023/ Elsa Worth

We hear John’s words repeatedly every year in Advent, and so perhaps we are not always hearing them anymore.

November 27, 2023

Advent

November 27, 2023/ Elsa Worth

How do you practice putting on God’s armor of light?

November 20, 2023

The Cosmic King

November 20, 2023/ Elsa Worth

What do you do with all the strange imagery in the Bible of heaven and earth, of eternal rewards (or punishments) and of Christ as cosmic ruler?

October 31, 2023

Taste

October 31, 2023/ Elsa Worth

In our western post-enlightenment culture, we spend most of our energy thinking about things.

October 23, 2023

Wholeness

October 23, 2023/ Elsa Worth

I’ve come to think of being ‘nice’ as really thin gruel as a spiritual goal.

October 09, 2023

Putting on Christ

October 09, 2023/ Elsa Worth

My initial reaction upon sitting down to read this passage and write this blog was one of relief that the bishop is taking care of the preaching this Sunday

October 02, 2023

Downsizing

October 02, 2023/ Elsa Worth

Sometimes it is a delight to discover a forgotten treasure, but mostly you ask yourself, “Why do I still have this thing?”

September 25, 2023

Authority

September 25, 2023/ Elsa Worth

We all have earthly authority in one way or another - at church, at our jobs, in our family, out in our community. We can be in charge of many different things in this life. Even a child is in charge of cleaning their own room.