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.

  • It’s official. My nephew makes me extra photogenic. Probably cause he’s so cute. Continue reading

  • Words, but no subject.

    I don’t use this blog for any other reason that to get out what I need to get out, it serves no cohesive purpose. I use it to work out issues and express my opinion on things that would get… Continue reading

  • It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream—making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible… Continue reading

  • Actually something I said today:

    Give the kid a break. So what if he wants Mac and Cheese at his wedding? He’s been in Afghanistan for the past year fighting a war that started when he was 10. Continue reading

  • The New Yorker: Wikileaks and the War

    Amy Davidson on Wikileaks and the War: “…a leak informing us that our tax dollars may be being used as seed money for a protection racket associated with a narcotics-trafficking enterprise is a good leak to have. And the checkpoint… Continue reading

  • Did I really do that?

    There are things that I reflect on in my life that I really have to question the validity of such events. Things that are so out of my character that I am almost convinced I dreamt it up in a… Continue reading

  • My brother, @BrianKello, is now a dad….and has been for approximately 9 days. Continue reading

  • Giving up being right about God, about life, about ourselves, is a process of emptying. When emptied of our need to be in charge of all the answers, we open ourselves to the stories of people we have always thought… Continue reading

  • Sincere, unprovoked, but still shameless plug.

    My friend @Transmillennial, or Kevin Beck, is a fantastic, insightful writer, even if he does talk about sports a lot. 🙂 Last week be began a series of posts on atheism. Here’s a quote from a recent post that I absolutely love. The… Continue reading

  • Fleeting, but exciting ideas.

    Someone once described my mind as if it where a large room with intertwining strings with pictures attached to the important plot lines for memory’s sake. If I was going to draw a picture of what’s going on up there, it probably… Continue reading