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Running Toward Hope Together
My paternal grandmother had this habit; having grown up in the foothills that rolled off the Appalachian Mountains in East Tennessee, she was barely educated. When I went off to college, my folks had a bit of advice, as parents… Continue reading
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Missioner Monday: August 11, 2025
Missioner Monday: Ninth Sunday After Pentecost with St. Paul’s Episcopal Church (Newport, Kentucky). It was a joy to be with the people of St. Paul’s yesterday: getting to meditate on Christ’s urgency to share God’s kingdom with us in Father… Continue reading
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Missioner Monday: July 28, 2025
An inaugural meeting of the Tates Creek Church Coalition hosted by @tcpca, @graceunitedlex, and @fcpsky on Wednesday and the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost with St. Mary’s Episcopal Church. Do you know that our best ministry efforts pull on our strengths,… Continue reading
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Praying and Trusting Like Jesus
Before I went to seminary to become a priest, I was a preschool teacher. Now, there are many surprisingly transferable skills between the two, but I think my favorite way in which my past connects with my present is how… Continue reading
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Missioner Monday: July 21, 2025
Wednesday with Frankfort Reading Camp at Church of the Ascension (Frankfort, KY) and the Sixth Sunday after Pentecost with St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, Lexington, Kentucky When I tell you that Frankfort Reading Camp was a joy to be at, let… Continue reading
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Worried and Distracted? Do Less
One of the delightfully weird gifts of being Christians in the year of Our Lord 2025 is that we get to reflect on some of the more unique and quirky Christian narratives that have made up our religious history. The… Continue reading
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Missioner Monday: July 14, 2025
A full day on Saturday with a Deacon’s Retreat at The Close Retreat Center in Mount Victory, Kentucky and the Fifth Sunday After Pentecost with Christ Church Harlan. A full weekend, dreaming, praying, and planning! Saturday I got to join… Continue reading
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Radical, Expansive Mercy
I walked into Ms. Ruth Ann’s funeral – my first Episcopal funeral – and it was the moment that I knew that Episcopal Church was my spiritual home. As a relatively new Episcopalian, I was surprised that the vestments… Continue reading
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Missioner Monday: July 7, 2025
Praying with all of Texas, and especially the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas – Bishop Jones Center. So much of my heart is in Texas, having spent my seminary years there. I have prayed on the edge of Lake Travis,… Continue reading
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Missioner Monday: June 30, 2025
Chaplain at Mini Camp I & II at The Cathedral Domain! I believe the best way to put it is that The Domain is a thin place. It’s a place of closeness with nature, with each other, and with God.… Continue reading
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.
Becca Kello 