Calling & Clarity

The Rev. Becca Kello is an Episcopal priest living and serving in Lexington, Kentucky. She often finds God’s presence in nature while hiking or out playing with her dogs, Coakley and Oliver. She is passionate about the intersections of faith and justice, and all sorts of discernment that leads to a clarity of calling.

  • But Mary Stood Weeping

    Sermon on the text of John 20:1-18 delivered during Holy Week, March 23, 2016 to the Abilene Christian University Graduate School of Theology Chapel. There are days in hospital chaplaincy that are smooth and easy; days when God’s presence is obvious and… Continue reading

    But Mary Stood Weeping

  • There’s a Stirring

    There is much stirring about in the denomination of which I was once a part, and with all my heart, I hope it continues to be and becomes a holy stirring towards a more faithful reading of scripture. I have… Continue reading

  • Finding My Voice in Wide Open Spaces

    A new friend of mine, Mitch, asked me to write a guest blog on his site, Create Grace, for his Music Changed Me series. At the conference where I met Mitch, I remember walking in and genuinely trying to decide… Continue reading

  • Where is the Hope?

        We were all sitting around our curry dishes in an annual birthday celebration, when we noticed that the rain that had been going for days took a turn toward the troubling. The rain fell so thick that seeing… Continue reading

  • Pictures or It Didn’t Happen: Barbara Brown Taylor

    Images kept popping up in my mind as I thought about whether we would take a falsely intimate selfie or if we would appear stiff as the strangers we were in photograph captured by another stranger, anxiously awaiting his own 30… Continue reading

  • And I Prayed: A Woman’s First Time

    I continue to have firsts in the church; today, I taught my first class. While it doesn’t quite compare to serving Eucharist, it was certainly reminiscent of experiencing that first. Last November, after I prayed and served my first Eucharist,… Continue reading

  • Reflection: Telling stories

    In Day Twenty Six, the patient spent about 30 minutes telling me stories. Not stories of how she found herself in the hospital, not stories of what she was going to do when she got out of the hospital, but… Continue reading

  • Reflection: Not everyone needs a chaplain

    My first few days I struggled with feeling as if I wasn’t being chaplainy enough. I would spend time with the patients, and quickly, I would learn if their children were wonderful, or if they provided a source of anxiety, I learned where they… Continue reading

  • Reflection: God as the Stranger

    It was my first real death, a few weeks into my time at the hospital, I was far from the wide-eyed new chaplain, but I’m hardly seasoned either. It was particularly hard. An all day process, everyone involved knew that… Continue reading

  • Reflections

    Fifty days, fifty sayings on God. Throughout my time this summer doing this blog, I have wanted to give more. After all, these 50 sayings are merely a window into my ministry this summer; along the way, people have asked me… Continue reading