Click on this link to down load my newest cross stitch pattern. It's called "A Tribute to Mary Magdalene".

A notice to my loyal supporters

Currently, this site as well as my other religious based sites are under a verbal attack by a certain man who I believe is trying to cause my seminary school as much trouble as one man possibly can.
At no time have I ever presented myself as an academic. My ordination and my doctorate degree are from a religious seminary. They are religious credentials.
As Dr. Martin Luther King was a Doctor of Theology, so am I.
Since this man has what might be considered internet knowledge, I will be slightly altering the names and hometowns of those who post to my BLOGS, contribute to this Ministry and in other ways identify themselves to the world through any of my web sites. This is necessary, in my humble opinion, to protect my wonderful supporters from any attack, verbal or otherwise, from this person’s questionable behavior.
Please pray that God touches this man's heart and that She will stop him from any future harassment.
Thank you,
Dr. Maggie

Our Prayers & Sympathy

Our Deepest Sympathy and Prayers to all those who lost their lives at Virginia Tech. We also offer our prayers to innocence lost; to those who survived this tragedy but will never be the same.

I thought this was thought provoking, to say the least!

Thought you might enjoy this interesting prayer given in Kansas at the opening session of their Senate.It seems prayer still upsets some people Please read.....When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard;"Heavenly Father,We come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your direction and guidance.We know Your Word says, "Woe to those who call evil good" But that is exactly what we have done.We have lost our spiritual equilibrium And reversed our values.We have exploited the poor and Called it the lottery.We have rewarded laziness And called it welfare.We have killed our unborn and called it choice.We have shot abortionists And called it justifiable.We have neglected to discipline Our children and called it Building self esteem.We have abused power And called it politics.We have coveted our neighbor's Possessions and called it ambition.We have polluted the air With profanity and Pornography and called it Freedom of speech and expression.We have ridiculed the time Honored values of our Forefathers and called it enlightenment.Search us, Oh, God, And know our hearts today; Cleanse us from every sin And set us free.Amen!"The response was immediate. A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest.In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls responding negatively. The church is now receiving international requests for copies of this prayer from around the world.Commentator Paul Harvey repeated this prayer on his radio program, "The Rest of the Story," he received a larger response to the program than any other he has aired.With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our Nation and wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called "one nation under God."

Link to a great site.

This web site" Christian + Feminist " has lots of great links to articles and books on Women in Religion. Check it out!

A question about liability insurance for the clergy

Today I read a posting on my Seminary School's Yahoo Group for their Ordained Ministers. It was about the need and availability of liability insurance for pastors, ministers, etc. Please post a comment if you have and info on this topic. I'll re-post it for all to share. In the web search I did today, I came up with tons of questions but no specific answers! Help!

This was written by a cloister-mate of mine from the Order of Mary Magdalene

Poem for Mary Magdalene
I was lost in a fog-
What is real?
Her voice came to me-
a whisper on the wind.
She is the secret-
She is the key-
She is the wisdom-
She is the tower divine.
(Written in a style to pay homage to Emily Dickenson)
Gössel