by Amy Walton | Feb 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
A few years ago, a dear couple with whom I grew up invited me to their home one evening when I was in my NC hometown. The reason? One of their children was engaged to a Catholic, and this Baptist couple had a lot of questions. “Why do Catholics have to go to a...
by Amy Walton | Oct 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
Me on the Appalachian Trail, @ 2015 I’ve had several friends walk the Camino de Santiago in the past year, I’ve enjoyed following their journeys on social media, and everyone who made this pilgrimage had different goals and things they hoped to receive...
by Amy Walton | Oct 22, 2023 | Uncategorized
Photo Credit: Cindi Oakley Johnson, Mayodan Moravian Church Today is my home church’s homecoming. I say “home church,” because it’s the church I attended my entire childhood and youth and of which I remain an associate member. It provided the...
by Amy Walton | Jun 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
When I was a child growing up in he Moravian Church, I thought that the mission field was some foreign land where really brave and selfless Christians ventured to take Bibles and to share the good new of Jesus. The Moravian Church actually spawned the first...
by Amy Walton | Apr 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
On Holy Thursday this year, my church’s choir sang one of my most beloved hymns, that African-American spiritual “Let Us Break Bread Together on Our Knees.” Oh, how I love that song! And when I am at mass, literally on my knees with my fellow...