Author Archives: Becca Kello

Becca Kello is an Episcopal priest serving the Diocese of Lexington as Canon Missioner, and is passionate about discipleship, community, and justice.

I decided to settle in. Next came an Orthodox couple—he in a black frock coat and beaver fur hat, she in a glossy wig, neither of them, amazingly enough, sweating in the bright heat. Then a stooped man in a shirt and tie, carrying a thick book, “The Psychology of Shame.” Three pretty young womenContinue reading

New Ways to Think About Grief (Time Magazine)

psychotherapy: The five stages of grief are so deeply embedded in our culture that they’ve become virtually inescapable. Every time we experience loss — whether personal or national — we hear them recited: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. They’re invoked to explain our emotional reaction to everything from the death of a loved oneContinue reading “New Ways to Think About Grief (Time Magazine)”

Sometimes, My Parents Amaze Me.

Seriously. Maybe this is typical of the age I’m at, but sometimes I think about it and am swept away with appreciation for them.  My mom grew up in poverty in a tiny town in Tennessee. When she graduated high school, the schools weren’t yet successfully integrated because it had only happened a few yearsContinue reading “Sometimes, My Parents Amaze Me.”

So maybe salvation isn’t something we “get” and then consider the option of joining God in his grand mission. Salvation is what we experience and spread in the process of joining God in his grand mission. Of course this is not a works/earning/self-justification thing—it’s all about God’s grace from start to finish. But the focusContinue reading