Giant fluffy white dog standing on a hardwood floor in a dark doorway.

Mornings with Ella. 😍

That’s fun.

Giant fluffy white dog walking along a road on a sunny morning as the tall trees start to bud behind her.

Mornings with Ella. ❤️

If only I could so live and so serve the world that after me there should never again be birds in cages. - Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) born today in 1885
(Photo credit: Cornell Lab)

Large fluffy white dog seen through the spindles on a handrail as she lies at the top of the staircase.

Mornings with Ella. 🙂

Sounds an awful lot like DEI, except in this case they aren't being kept out by structures and systems. They're being kept out because their ideas don't pass the smell test from the academy.

Giant fluffy white dog standing on a road with a large forsythia bush behind her that is blooming glorious yellow.

Mornings with Ella. 🌼

Church panelists argue US war in Iran fails tests of both ‘just war’ and pacifist traditions [Episcopal News Service] The United States launches a deadly war thousands of miles away in Iran. The “Secretary of War” frames the military attacks as aligned with “the providence of our almighty …

This was a very good webinar today, and it was especially good to see Chuck Mathewes as part of it.
episcopalnewsservice.org/2026/04/15/c...

Giant fluffy white dog standing outside with a black fence behind her and some trees.

Mornings with Ella. 🙂

Giant fluffy white dog standing on a road with the sun rising through some trees behind her.

Mornings with Ella. 🌅

I am begging U.S. media companies to hire more religion reporters who actually know what they are talking about. Using punch/counterpunch language is just one of many reasons the media fails at this. A good religion reporter would be writing an explainer about the desolating sacrilege about now.

Giant fluffy white dog lying on a blue flowered rug in a living room filled with bookshelves and furniture. There’s a glass-paned door behind her leading out to a porch.

Mornings with Ella returns. 🩷

St. Augustine is key to the difference between Pete Hegseth and Pope Leo In the Christian tradition, the violent language found in the imprecatory psalms can never be separated from Jesus' command to love one's enemies. Scripture can never, as Peter Hegseth does, be marsha...

This essay is really good explainer about why it's theological debate, not political.

"Leo (is) drawing on a tradition that insists, without exception, on the primacy of charity and mercy in all use and interpretation of Scripture."

www.ncronline.org/opinion/st-a...

Or, in our case, come to the midweek service where it remains.

Reading the book now. This is such important work.

Obama's former minister once said "God Damn America" and we never heard the end of it.

Welcome home, Artemis II! 🎉

Tonight in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square, a sea of young Hungarians—who’ve only ever known Orbán’s corrupt, suffocating regime—are packed together, singing, chanting, and daring to dream of freedom again.

Their hope is raw, their courage is real. The heart of Europe is beating in Budapest tonight. 🇭🇺❤️🇪🇺

Excellent. Required reading.

One of these things is not like the other.

Giant fluffy white dog lying on a blue flowered rug next to a hardwood floor with books and firewood behind her.

Mornings with Ella. ❤️(She’s going on vacation so will see you when she returns.)

Honey-ginger tea and lozenges. Sorry - it has happened to me this time of year and it’s awful. Praying for healing.

Dawn Staley went to Dobbins. Geno doesn’t stand a chance. #ncaawb

Same. 😆

Giant fluffy white dog head close-up.

Mornings with Ella. ☔️

Well Meaning Or Not, Virginia Bill Restricting How To Teach About Jan. 6 Is An Educational Gag Order Nora Neus, journalist and author of 24 Hours at the Capitol, called the White House’s account of Jan. 6 “outright lying about what happened.”

This is an important interview with Nora Neus about Virginia's HB33. We need to tread carefully when restricting or legislating how history (or anything else) is taught. pen.org/nora-neus-in...

White nationalist group ordered to pay over $470K for defacing Arthur Ashe mural in Richmond A federal judge ordered a white nationalist group and some of its members to pay hundreds of thousands in punitive damages after defacing a mural of Arthur Ashe in Richmond in 2021.

“Patriot Front, its leader — Thomas Rousseau — and members William Ring and Jacob Brown are ordered to pay over $470,000”
www.wtvr.com/news/local-n...

Close up of the face of a giant, fluffy, white dog, lying on a hardwood floor.

Mornings with Ella. 😍

Giant, fluffy, white dog, standing in a yard with winter trees behind her.

Mornings with Ella. 🩷

Giant, fluffy, white dog, standing on a roadside with dead grass, and winter trees behind her.

Mornings with Ella. ☔️