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Sarah Puryear

The Rev. Sarah Puryear lives in Nashville with her family and serves as priest associate at St. George’s Episcopal Church.

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Franco Zeffirelli's 1972 film "Brother Sun, Sister Moon" illustrates the complicated joy St Francis experienced as a disciple of Jesus.s.

The Creed & The Life of The World to Come

We close the creed saying, we believe in the life of the world to come. Do we grasp the words we repeat each Sunday?

Called by Name

Daily Devotional • April 28 The Feast of St. Mark A Reading from Acts 12:25-13:3 25 Then after completing their mission Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem...

Agony in the Garden

Yes, we have a savior who shared in our pain, sin, and death - our agony. But he also had authority to overcome it. And by his stripes we are healed.

What Jesus Took Upon Himself

Tonight, on Thursday of Holy Week, we hear the story of the Last Supper, and we recall how Jesus commanded his disciples to remember...

Delivered From Deep Waters

Today we enter Lent, the most solemn and penitential season of the church. Lent first developed within the early church as a time of...

The Transfiguration Transforms

In 2011, a group of us from St. George’s went to the Holy Land on a pilgrimage, hoping to have firsthand experience of the...

Natality and Formation

We're continuing our series on Natality. In a time when loneliness and isolation are rampant, Sarah Puryear writes, the church needs to lean more into its identity as a community of support and formation, relationships that foster life in Christ.

Wheaton-to-Anglican Pipeline: A Response

Recently on Juicy Ecumenism, Sarah Carter — a Wheaton College graduate and a current Falls Church fellow — reflected on her experience of discovering...

Anglican Mysteries

If you’re on the hunt for some summer reading, my reading in the past ten years commends the remarkable niche of Anglican mystery writers....