About
E-piphanies is a place for spiritual reflection — a small corner of the web where faith is taken seriously and the ordinary moments of life are examined for the grace hidden within them.
What this is
The name is a small play on words: epiphanies, but offered electronically. The idea is that glimpses of God rarely arrive with fanfare. They tend to come quietly — in a moment of stillness, in a word that lands differently than expected, in the face of a stranger or the weight of an ordinary day.
This site collects those glimpses. Reflections on prayer, discipleship, and the life of faith. Occasional longer pieces on Scripture, the Christian tradition, and what it means to follow Jesus in the particular circumstances of our time. Always written with the conviction that the spiritual life is not a specialty for the devout few but the birthright of every baptized person.
Who writes it
E-piphanies is written by The Very Reverend Ron Pogue — an Episcopal priest with a long vocation of preaching, teaching, and accompanying people through the full range of human experience. Fr. Ron has served parishes, led retreats, and spent decades paying attention to where God shows up in ordinary life.
These reflections grow out of that ministry — not as formal theology, but as the kind of honest, searching writing that happens when someone has been listening carefully for a long time and has something worth saying.
More about Fr. Ron Pogue →A note on the approach
Christian writing tends toward two poles: comfortable reassurance and anxious exhortation. Neither is very useful. The goal here is something more like honest attention — taking the faith seriously enough to look at it carefully, and being willing to sit with difficulty as well as consolation.
If that sounds like your kind of thing, the reflections are a good place to start.
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