Gayle L. Goudy

Author: Gayle L. Goudy

  • How to Use the Daily Office Lectionary | Book of Common Prayer

    This video introduces how to pray the Daily Office using the Book of Common Prayer. It explains the lectionary, liturgical calendar, and two-year cycle, then walks through Morning and Evening Prayer readings. It also reflects on the Daily Office’s flexibility and enduring value for personal and shared devotion.

  • What is the Liturgical Year: Advent, Lent, Easter, and Pentecost

    This video introduces the liturgical year as a sacred pattern shaped by the life of Christ. Covering its major seasons, it explains the Christian calendar’s history, meaning, and structure, with attention to Easter, the Book of Common Prayer, and Anglican tradition.

  • The Cross from Christ’s Perspective: Psalm 22 and James Tissot

    Reflection • James Tissot’s watercolor imagines the crucifixion from Christ’s perspective, illuminating Psalm 22 as Jesus’ prayer from the cross. What begins in anguish moves toward trust, resurrection, and triumph. The article invites readers to hear “My God, my God” not as despair alone, but as a cry filled with hope.

    Originally published in Words of Grace, Grace Church Cathedral, (Charleston, South Carolina), April 2026.

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  • Flight to Egypt | Evacuating Israel

    What happens when a pilgrimage to Israel is suddenly interrupted by war? In this video, I share my experience of traveling in Israel during a time of conflict and making the difficult journey home by land through Egypt after air travel was disrupted. What began as a Holy Land pilgrimage became a deeper lesson in faith, vulnerability, and the meaning of shalom.

  • Tiberias to Eilat | Seen from a bus window, March 2026

    This video follows the road from Tiberias to Eilat, Israel, on March 1, 2026, as I traveled south to leave the country after the regional escalation that followed the February 28 U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, the subsequent missile attacks, and the closure of Israeli airspace.

  • Taba to Cairo | Seen from a Bus Window, March 2026

    This video captures the changing landscape from Taba to Cairo, Egypt: Highway 50 along the Gulf of Aqaba, the Sinai Mountains, the Saint Catherine–Nuweiba Road, the passage beneath the Suez Canal, and the long approach into Cairo.

  • The Other Brother: The Prodigal Son’s Hardest Lesson (Luke 15)

    James B. Janknegt’s The Two Sons retells Luke 15 in contemporary imagery and brings the older brother to the foreground. This video shows how the painting reframes the Prodigal Son as a test of grace, resentment, and reconciliation for those still in the father’s house.

  • Forgiveness as a Gift of Love: Pascal Fessler’s “Return of Judas”

    Reflection • Pascal Fessler’s Return of Judas imagines Judas returning after betraying Jesus and asks whether forgiveness is possible. Placing viewers among the disciples, the painting challenges us to confront Christ’s command to love and forgive—even when it feels impossible.

    Originally published in Words of Grace, Grace Church Cathedral (Charleston, South Carolina), March 2026.

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  • The Theology of Damar Hamlin’s Jacket

    After his on-field cardiac arrest, Damar Hamlin wore the “Eternal” Jesus jacket at the Super Bowl—and backlash followed. This video reads the images through hip-hop remix culture and Scripture to ask how faith can be seen, misread, and recognized.

  • The Jesus Piece

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