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Mary Barnett

Mary Barnett is priest in charge at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Middletown, CT.

Sunday’s Coming

Calling Zacchaeus to be Zacchaeus (Luke 19:1-10)

Jesus is present in the circumstances in which we already find ourselves.
Sunday’s Coming

The dreamland where the wild things are (Daniel 7:1-3, 15-18)

The angel unawares who interprets Daniel’s dream points him to a wider reality that holds him in its everlasting arms.
In the Lectionary

November 2, Ordinary 31C (Habakkuk 1:1-4; 2:1-4)

We are one body, even as the world comes apart.
In the Lectionary

November 1, All Saints (Luke 6:20-31)

My friend Mollie didn’t need to be a minister. She was already a fisher of people.
Features

Doubting Thomases in an age of science

It takes courage to plunge our hands smack-dab into the side of the universe and reach for a God that could be real.
Features

The poetic space of the liturgy

What if we suspend our disbelief, collapse our ironic distance, and allow ourselves to go in?
Features

My fertility journey with Mary

Navigating agency and surrender with my namesake, the mother of God

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