Fellows

Joining the Johnson Service Corps, I had no idea what to expect.  Never in my life have I moved to a new city by myself to live with a group of strangers and engage in regular spiritual experiences with them. Yet, come July, there I was packing up my life to do just that.  Was […]

At this point, anyone who has heard me introduce myself on even just one Zoom call in the last month knows that I’m a writer. (If we haven’t met yet: hello! I’m a writer!). Words are my favorite, however, I’m finding I can only come up with one good one to sum up my JSC […]

I said to the the sun“Tell me about the big bang”The sun said“it hurts to become”-Andrea Gibson, “I Sing The Body Electric; Especially When My Power Is Out” Hello there! Welcome, one and all, to ~Sara’s Introduction Blog of Dreams~ (patent pending)! It feels a bit strange to introduce myself only a few months before […]

When I accepted JSC’s offer to join their 2020-21 cohort only two days after First Offer Friday, I did so with a deeply rooted certainty that this was the place meant for me. The sense of rightness, of fitting, was resolute, even as some anxieties began to sprout like weeds in my mind, particularly about […]

Well well well, so you’ve decided to drop by my little blog post. Goody goody! Take a seat, put up your feet, rest your human meat. I’m Emlyn, as you know, but I think introductions are nice even if they’re repetitive. Plus my name is fun and quirky so I like to say it as […]

3,000 miles. That is the amount I have driven since leaving my home in Waterloo, Iowa. I never expected taking a risk to travel and move so far away would allow me to still do things I love. I studied biochemistry and work at Durham Children’s Initiative. It doesn’t make much sense for me to […]

The following sermon was preached by current corps member Ben Miller at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (Englewood, NJ) on January 1, 2021. The primary text was Colossians 2:6-12. It’s not just New Year’s Day (Happy New Year, by the way!) Today the wisdom of the Church appoints the Feast of the Holy Name, one of […]

Damn. What a year. If you told me at the beginning of 2020 that we would be living in a global pandemic, murder hornets would invade the continental United States, and an old, white man would be elected to the Presidency – ok, that last one isn’t all that surprising – I would have looked […]

The past several weeks have been some of the most life-giving times of my life. Perhaps “wilderness” is the best way to describe my life overall in the past several years. I have been immersed in a life-time of learning and making mistakes. I am constantly being reminded that it is not about men but […]

It is a universal cliché, in my estimation, to speak of community in one of either two frames of mind. The first romanticizes community life by presenting it as  solution to all human ills, ignoring all the ways friends and neighbors betray one another in large and small matters in the name of their own interests, […]