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A web site and blog about fulfilling Christ's mission in the world.

The Three Rs of Christmas

Sermon by The Rev. Dr. Lauren R. Stanley, preached 12.24.21, Pine Ridge Episcopal Mission/St. Katharine’s, Martin, South Dakota Do you all remember, way back when, when educators talked about school, they always mentioned the “three Rs”? You know, the three basics of what school was supposed to … [Read More...]

Walking by faith

Since becoming Canon to the Ordinary of the Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota, I no longer am preaching five times a week on #REMLive, the Facebook Live broadcast for the Rosebud Episcopal Mission. So I shall try to get videos of my sermons as I travel around the Diocese. This sermon was preached … [Read More...]

Heart-breaking racism

Two days after the horrific shootings in Atlanta, in which six of the eight people murdered were women of Asian descent, I came face to face with anti-Asian discrimination right here in South Dakota - and Nebraska. Know this: *I* was not the victim of racial hatred. I am a white woman of French, … [Read More...]

COVID-19 and Following Jesus: Living sacred lives, not scared ones

Image from the Centers for Disease Control website. I have spent almost all of Monday working on COVID-19 — preparing for its arrival in South Dakota (which I am, alas, sure will happen), working with church leaders to figure out what we will do in services, searching in vain for hand sanitizer … [Read More...]

This and That: The meaning of the Eucharist

The Feast of Corpus Christi 20 June 2019 The First Eucharist Celebrated by The Rev. Danny Lee Pegg St. Luke’s Parish, Stone Cross, Sussex, England The Rev. Dr. Lauren R. Stanley Superintending Presbyter, Rosebud Episcopal Mission (West),  Rosebud Indian Reservation, South … [Read More...]

Pentecost 2019: Today’s the day!

My sermon preached at Trinity Episcopal Church, Rosebud Episcopal Mission, Rosebud Reservation, on Sunday, 9 June: Today's the day we get the power and the ability to do the work that Jesus has given us to do. pentecost-2019-the-day-we-get-the-power-to-live-the-gospel … [Read More...]

Ascension 2019: It’s time for Jesus to get out of the way

My sermon preached at Trinity Episcopal Church, Rosebud Episcopal Church, Rosebud Reservation, on Sunday, 2 June 2019: This is the day when Jesus gets out of the way - because Jesus trusts us to do the work he has given us to … [Read More...]

6 Easter 2019: A little love here, a little love there, a little love everywhere

My sermon preached at Trinity Episcopal Church, Rosebud Episcopal Mission, Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota, on the Sixth Sunday of Easter, 26 May, on John 14: It's all about the … [Read More...]

5 Easter 2019: We are all clean, holy, and worthy

My sermon preached on the 5th Sunday of Easter, Year C, at Trinity Episcopal Church, Rosebud Episcopal Mission, Rosebud Reservation, South Dakota, on the Acts of the Apostles, 11:1-18. https://soundcloud.com/lauren-r-stanley/5-easter-2019-who-are-we-to-hinder-god … [Read More...]

4 Easter 2019: God doesn’t ‘follow’ us; God ‘chases’ us!

My sermon preached at Holy Innocents Episcopal Church, Parmelee, on Sunday, 12 May, 2019, on Psalm 23: God doesn't timidly follow you in life; God aggressively pursues you! https://soundcloud.com/lauren-r-stanley/4-easter-god-doesnt-follow-you-god-chases-you … [Read More...]

The Rev. Lauren R. Stanley

All my life, it seems, I’ve been on mission.

And it’s all my mother’s fault.

You see, when I was a child, my mother was adamant: We were to help those in need, those who had less than we did. We were to speak for those who could not speak, feed those who had no food, give water to those who were thirsty.

Oh, she didn’t preach it in those exact words – that was not her way. What she did was teach by example. When she saw someone in need, or something that needed doing, she did it. Simple as that.

As I got older, she dragged me into the mission field by assigning me to go out and collect money for people in need. Those of us who are old enough remember the days before mass mailings, before the Internet. We remember those little cans, wrapped in the logo of some organization: Multiple Sclerosis Society, Muscular Dystrophy Association, American Cancer Society, March of Dimes, Easter Seals … My job, from the time I was fairly young, was to go door to door in the neighborhood, asking politely for donations. My neighbors would ask me, “Didn’t I just give last month?” And I’d stand there, looking up at them, and reply, “No, that was for Muscular Dystrophy. This is for Multiple Sclerosis.” Never mind that I couldn’t explain the difference; I simply had to do the collecting. [Read More …]

Where in the world …?

You can find me full-time on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, the home of the Sicangu Oyate Lakota.

I serve as the priest-in-charge of the Rosebud Episcopal Mission, Western Side, with eight congregations:
•Trinity, Mission
•Church of Jesus, Rosebud
•Grace Chapel, Soldier Creek
•Holy Innocents, Parmelee
•St. Paul's, Norris
•St. Thomas, Corn Creek
•Tiwahe ed Wacikiyapi, Norris (a joint outreach of St. Paul's and St. Thomas)
•St. Philip's/St. James, White River

I began my ministry here in February 2013.

Recent Posts

  • The Three Rs of Christmas
  • Walking by faith
  • Heart-breaking racism
  • COVID-19 and Following Jesus: Living sacred lives, not scared ones
  • This and That: The meaning of the Eucharist
  • Pentecost 2019: Today’s the day!
  • Ascension 2019: It’s time for Jesus to get out of the way
  • 6 Easter 2019: A little love here, a little love there, a little love everywhere
  • 5 Easter 2019: We are all clean, holy, and worthy
  • 4 Easter 2019: God doesn’t ‘follow’ us; God ‘chases’ us!
  • 3 Easter 2019: Do You Love Me?
  • 2 Easter 2019: God is God, and God is love
  • Easter 2019: Believing the ones who went before
  • Palm Sunday: Who are we?
  • 5 Lent C: Sending forth in love

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