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The Right Rev. Gregory Cameron- an architect and supporter of the Covenant has written reasons for voting yes. Published at the Fulcrum website he offers 5 points. Cameron: 1. A covenant is the way we say we belong together. Answer: 1. Can't we just say we belong together without a piece of paper? Cameron: 2. The Covenant would restore trust. Answer: 2. Doesn't seem to be working- so far it has

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Readings are here. Why do we gather on this day? Why do we receive ashes on our foreheads with the sign of the cross? What are we doing here? Do you notice the gospel asks us not to make a display and yet many of us wear our ashes all day. I have been thinking about this "disconnect" between our actions and our readings. The conclusion I come to at this time is that we live in a time and

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PROTECT IP / SOPA Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo.

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Bits and pieces for Advent II: from Edge of Enclosure the arid earth of others Our brokenness is the wound through which the full power of God can penetrate our being and transfigure us in God. Loneliness is not something from which we must flee but the place from where we can cry out to God, where God will find us and we can find God. Yes, through our wounds the power of God can

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Readings are here.This gospel is a stumper for me. My sense of fairness gets challenged - why couldn't they just share? So what if the lamps all went out? Are the doors to the party shut for all time if we run out of oil? What were the oil sellers doing open for business at midnight? Who is the bridegroom? Who are the young women? What is the oil, the light?I suppose it helps to know that Matthew

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Bishop Alan Wilson of Buckinghamshire speaks about Occupy London:

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Readings are hereNotes toward a sermon -Almighty and everlasting God, increase in us the gifts of faith, hope, and charity; and, that we may obtain what you promise, make us love what you command; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen. (collect)Thessalonians – oldest letter – writing of the NT. Nurse – wet nurse. When

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Matthew 22:15-22Then the Pharisees went and plotted to entrap him in what he said. So they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, ‘Teacher, we know that you are sincere, and teach the way of God in accordance with truth, and show deference to no one; for you do not regard people with partiality. Tell us, then, what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to the emperor, or

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Be a humming bird!

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Thoughts toward a sermon -- readings are here.
The Earth reminded us of a Christmas tree ornament hanging in the blackness of space. As we got farther and farther away it diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful marble you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate, that if you touched it with a finger it would crumble

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Readings are here.Sermon thoughts:I wrestle often with the question Peter asks about forgiveness. My experience is that people expect instant results if one forgives. The church makes one feel guilty if a person cannot forgive. Psychologists (pros and amateurs) tell us we will be the ones to benefit. But for me this just does not work. I need the acknowledgement of the wound and a time with my

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Watch and weep. Thanks to Andee for being an icon of a faithful friend. Barefoot and Laughing: In Loving Remembrance - Kirstin's Memorial Service.

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Full box of tissues alert.Thanks MP and Clumber

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Readings are here.When we left the followers of Jesus last week they were staring up in the sky wondering, what next? Now they have spent the week+ gathering for meals, praying together, studying the scriptures and recounting their experiences with Jesus - doing what all have done since that time - gathering, lighting the fire, telling the story and breaking the bread - the basics of church.

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I love the images of the Ascension especially the ones where Jesus' feet hang out of the sky. When I think about the Ascension, the image of Glinda the Good Witch leaving the Munchkins comes into my mind - I can hear them saying "good-bye, good-bye" and waving, excited by her visit and sad to see her leave but sure she will return again. Here are a few favorites:

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Readings are here.Notes towards a sermon. I have gone back to my previous practice of notes instead of text since I rarely preach the totality of what I write. This week thought about Way, Truth, Life in light of living in a pluralistic society. As we follow Jesus (what he asks us to do) he shows us the Way, he embodies Truth and wherever he goes he spreads Life. As a holy people, a royal

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Readings are here.Notes toward a sermon:A couple is returning home from the heady days of their past week. Last week they had left the garrison town of Emmaus where they work for the Roman legions, stationed there. They had gone for the festival days of Passover. Making a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. They had been caught up in the crowds flocking to hear this man, Jesus. So kind, so embracing -

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This captures that moment of the breaking of the bread among the strangers at Emmaus for me. h/t to Kwok Pui LanJohn O’Donohue’s “Beannacht.”On the day whenthe weight deadenson your shouldersand you stumble,may the clay danceto balance you.And when your eyesfreeze behindthe grey windowand the ghost of lossgets in to you,may a flock of colours,indigo, red, green,and azure bluecome to awaken in

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Readings are here.Every year, the first Sunday after Easter, the church reads this Gospel. It is a challenge to say anything new about the appearance to the disciples who are hiding in terror from the religious authorities and the soldiers of the Roman Empire. Are any of the women followers of Jesus with them? Is it just the 11? Hard to tell from the word "disciples," because in Greek if there is

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A verger cartwheels in the Abbey after the ceremony -- how I feel after an excellent liturgy!!

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Of course I got up at o'dark thirty to see it all. It was fun and silly and grand - and reminds me of why I love being an Anglican/Episcopalian. Here is the whole service for your watching pleasure. Wedding sermons are notoriously hard to preach - what to say that has not been said? This one is just right and the quote from Catherine of Sienna - good for all our days. The prayers at the end were

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It is early Sunday morning, it is still dark, a dark that is only lit by Magdalene's oil lamp and the stars spread out across the sky. The dew is thick in the garden, the smell of the grass and the dirt and the trees fills the air. The stones are cold, all the heat of the day gone out of them. Her feet carefully pick their way along the path. The silence of that Sabbath is heavy in her heart. It

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Last Supper by Piasecki

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Here is the liturgy we will use for Maundy Thursday. It is from the materials of Education for Ministry from the University of the South:Sanctuary set up for dinnerPeople bring Middle Eastern or Mediterreanean food and place it on table 2nd Century Eucharist - Rite of HippolytusThe Liturgy of the WordAlmighty Father, whose dear Son, on the night beforehe suffered, instituted the Sacrament of his

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Readings are here.The streets are packed with people coming to the city for the Holy Days. The Roman legions are everywhere- nervous young soldiers sent to reinforce the regulars in the notoriously difficult place. Probably they are wondering about the Jews and their commitment to one God. Wondering why they can't just worship like everyone else - giving worship to the emperor, making offering to

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Readings are here.This week in our Bible Study we looked at the various characters in the Gospel. We thought about what it would have been like for each of them and we were like or unlike each one. As we read the story again this morning, did any of them stand out for you? What did you wonder about each one? The sisters are mourning - each in her own way - Mary sitting beside Lazarus, Martha busy

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Readings are here.Notes for a sermon- redux.Seeing is believing – true or not? In our gospel – much is revealed to the disciples and the people around Jesus – God’s truth is shocking to them. What they see Jesus doing is hard to believe. Many in those days and still today believe in a cause and effect between bad things happening to people. Sometimes it is true – if you do certain things bad

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Love this video -- I am so un-adventurous and fashion challenged - but maybe there is hope?I would post the video itself but it has auto run. Check it out.h/t to Peace Bang at Beauty Tips for Ministers

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Readings are here.Sermon notes:This is the reading that was the Gospel at my ordination as a priest. It is so rich with so many themes. The Orthodox call the Samaritan woman St. Photini - the enlightened one. Well stories in the Bible are always about betrothal - those seeking a wife or husband meet at the well. Does the Samaritan woman pledge herself to Jesus in this encounter? She goes to the

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Readings are here.Notes towards a sermon:Nicodemus – victory-people – (Nike – demos)John –used for the gospels in Lent (A –Matthew, B-Mark, C-Luke) – parallel stories – this week – Nicodemus – next week Samaritan woman.In the world of John there is a split between the Jews who followed Christ and those who did not. – a religious split that you can see referenced all through the Gospel of John –

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Readings are here.Once again the readings take us back to the beginning. Eve and Adam begin their life outside that perfect relationship (called Eden) with God and all creation. And Jesus takes his first steps from his baptism to the cross and beyond. Each responds to the challenges in very different ways.For Eve and Adam, they live in perfect relationship – an unconscious unity with God and

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Readings are here.Today we begin Lent – taking time for our spiritual lives. Traditionally we have given up things like chocolate or other candy, alcohol, meat, or other physical sacrifices. These are worthy things to do as each time we are are confronted with the thing we have given up we are reminded that it is Lent and a time for reflection on our spiritual journey. Taking on a spiritual

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Readings are here.Today is the last Sunday of the season of Epiphany – a season of revelation and revealing. Beginning with the Baptism of Jesus by John to the revelation of transformation on the mountain – transfiguration. The question behind each reading in this season of Epiphany seems to be – how are we to reveal Christ in this world as he reveals himself to us? In the baptism – he plunges

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Readings are here.From the psalm:But I still my soul and make it quiet,like a child upon its mother's breast; *my soul is quieted within me.When I read through the lessons for today - I immediately thought of our primroses. A few weeks ago we were buying some primroses. Our children and their children came to visit and so they sat on the porch unplanted. From the warm sunny false spring of early

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Notes towards a sermonReadings are here.From the Collect: O Lord, you have taught us that without love whatever we do is worth nothing: Send your Holy Spirit and pour into our hearts your greatest gift, which is love, the true bond of peace and of all virtue, without which whoever lives is accounted dead before you.The lessons this week tell us how to live when we have love poured into our hearts

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Readings are here. This is also the week we celebrate Janani Luwum, Archbishop of Uganda who was murdered February 11, 1977.This is one of those gospel readings that might make one wonder why there are not more one-eyed, one-handed Christians. A literal reading and following of this passage might stop anyone in his or her tracks. And in a desert community where eating is done with the right hand

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Readings are hereThe last few weeks we have been hearing about Jesus beginning his public ministry - calling the disciples. Now he is gaining more attention and crowds are gathering wherever he goes. Today he begins to move beyond the healing ministry that has attracted the crowds and preach the message that will startle the world around him and call for a new way of looking at life. Looking at

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Thoughts towards a sermon:Readings are here.Once again the Gospel relates one of the call stories - though it differs from last week in the setting - now they are in Capernaum instead of by the Jordan River. Jesus has apparently taken up residence in this small town whose economy was based in fishing and agriculture. Recent archeological findings show that the town was made up of sturdily built

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Looking back from Monday at what I really said -- 8 a.m. - felt to me like the sermon wanted to go in 2 directions - not sure it really came together. 9:30 a.m. - one of those rare moments when it felt like it all came together - sermon, music (not planned by me), prayers.The congregation is beginning their search process and will have the Annual Meeting next Sunday so the focus was on their call

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Join the band with saints and angels. Gives a whole new meaning to "with all the angels and archangels and all the company of heaven" we sing!!h/t to Phil's Treehouse

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Today is the anniversary of my ordination to the priesthood. I was happy to be ordained on Epiphany as shooting stars are a metaphor for my life - I love the ones in the sky as well as the flowers that grow up the canyon from our house. It was an odd journey to that day and from that day. Now I am contemplating the future of where that call will take me. Here is TS Eliot reading his poem on the

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I am not preaching this week - The Baptism of Christ, but am thinking of the scene from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Eustace has been transformed into a dragon but now wants to become a boy again:["I looked up and saw the very last thing I expected: a huge lion coming slowly toward me. And one queer thing was that there was no moon last night, but there was moonlight where the lion was. So it

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Lully, lullay, thou little tiny child, bye-bye, lully lullay. O sisters, too, how may we do / for to preserve this day/ this poor youngling for whom we sing / bye-bye lully lullay? Herod the King, in his raging charged he hath this day / his men of might, in his own sight/ all young children to slay. That woe is me, poor child for thee! / And every morn and day / for thy parting nor say nor sing

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I salute you. I am your friend and my love for you goes deep.There is nothing I can give you which you have not got. But there is much, very much, that while I cannot give it, you can take.No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today.Take heaven!No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instance.Take peace!The gloom of the world is but a shadow.

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Welcome to our celebration of this most amazing night. Celebrating a birth that reveals that all creation and life is holy. The beginning again of hearing the angels' song of hope for Peace on Earth - peace in our families, peace in our communities, peace in the world. The helpless infant in the manger at Bethlehem is the message God is with us. God is with us in our joys and our sorrows, in pain

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Hallelujah Chorus -Kuinerrarmiut Elitnaurviat 5th Grade - Quinhagak, Alaska

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A Christmas Card with Jana Mashonee's rendition of "O Holy Night" in Navajo. It is accompanied by appropriate winter scenery on Navajo land featuring original artwork by Daniel Tate. Merry Christmas!

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Kids enact the Christmas story like you have not seen before.thanks to Episcopal Café

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We have an olive wood carving of Mary, Joseph and Jesus and the donkey - headed to Egypt - given to us by my mother from her travels to Israel and Egypt. I wonder what she would think if she visited now?O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie!Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.Yet in thy dark streets shineth the everlasting Light;The hopes and fears of all the

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My thoughts on Christmas past are here A video from Simon's Cat and some thoughts about this year below:This year is joyous and difficult. I have been re-united with a church where I was kicked out 12 or so year ago. Will preside at the Christmas eve service. I have been doing 8 a.m. services on Sunday and this past Sunday I preached at the later service. It was a place I had not served for all

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Readings are hereJohn the Baptist is in jail – and soon to lose his head, it is the low point in his life. Since he first leaped in the womb of his mother Elizabeth at the approach of Mary pregnant with Jesus- the gospels tells us that he has spent his life pointing to the one who was to come. From the high point of the baptism in the river Jordan when it all seemed to be coming true to now—seems

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From MamaBishop, the Rt Rev. Carol Gallagher reflecting on Luke 20:34-40:Some days on waking lightfiltering through windows dustyeyes sleep swollen and stumblingare these feet aliveor dead waking to new life?Some nights tossing worryingmistakes tiptoe around menight visitors in shadow and whisperI wonder what heaven might be like.Some afternoons as the sun burns into my working shouldersdigging

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Tree is up - time to decorate -- come Christmas ---

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If your heart yearns for a more it doesn’t know,if you’ve suffered blow after blowand can barely dare to lift your head,if you’ve ever wished you’d rather been -if you’ve bled, or tried to bind a woundif you’ve cried then tied a knot to chokethe flow of hope before it can open upa way to disappoint againand leave you brokenthen this is for you.If you’ve longed, if you’ve wronged,if you choke on

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Happy ThanksgivingO God, it is good to be alive, and numbered with the people whom thou has made:and I thank thee for thy gift of life.O God, it is good to have the power of thought,and to seek and learn and know:and I thank thee for thy gift of mind.O God, it is good to dwell beneath the sunin the world which is thy handiwork:and I thank thee for earth’s beauty,and thy rule within its laws.O God

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No Anglican Covenant Coalition has started a blog to go with the web site, Facebook page, and Twitter presence. An international coalition of faithful Anglicans who believe the proposed Covenant will change the essential nature of Anglicanism by making it a centralized church were experimentation is discouraged, local evangelism is strangled and cultural differences are no longer respected. Join

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It helps, now and then, to step back and take the long view.The kingdom is not only beyond our efforts, it is beyond our vision.We accomplish in our lifetime only a tiny fraction of the magnificent enterprise that is God's work. Nothing we do is complete, which is another way of saying that the kingdom always lies beyond us.No statement says all that could be said.No prayer fully expresses

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Sermon by the Rev. Robert Morrison, St. Alban's, Albany, OR for Proper 28, 25th Pentecost.“If we don't do it, there's no one else who will.” What a challenge that sentence brings to us all! What great encouragement, that someone will be there for whatever eventuality, but especially in time of need. Yet how disappointing – that there’s the possibility that no one else may be there!Sometimes life

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Today, on the celebration of Richard Hooker, a new international coalition of Anglicans/Episcopalians has launched a campaign to oppose the Anglican Covenant as it is currently proposed. With the following news release the coalition argues against the Covenant. The coalition believes that the current Covenant will:*Bring historic changes to the nature of Anglicanism*Trade a vibrant and colorful

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Readings are here.Luke 19:1-10 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through it. A man was there named Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was rich. He was trying to see who Jesus was, but on account of the crowd he could not, because he was short in stature. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree to see him, because he was going to pass that way. When Jesus came to the place, he

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Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!

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Readings are here.The last week or so I have been thinking about the young gay men who have committed suicide after being bullied and harassed. So many people in our world feel that sense of hopelessness that leads to thinking that death is better than life. I cry out with Habakkuk:O LORD, how long shall I cry for help,and you will not listen?Or cry to you "Violence!"and you will not save?Why do

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Readings are hereSometimes I think we say the Lord's Prayer so frequently we race over the meaning and mumble the words. Today I encourage you to read it through slowly, savoring each phrase. Or perhaps reading it in other translations/paraphrases will help see the fullness of the prayer that Jesus offers his followers:THE ARAMAIC PRAYER OF JESUSas translated from Aramaic by Saadi Neil

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Readings are here.Every time this Gospel about Mary and Martha come around, I cringe. It seems to be a set up to pit women against one another using Jesus as the instigator. I know that in the time of the reading it was shocking for Jesus to go to the home of 2 unaccompanied (by men) women, to eat with them, to allow one to slack off on her household duties, and to encourage the other one to do

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From Argentina, where they just passed a marriage equality law:

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Readings are here.The Presiding Bishop, the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori preached last week on what I tried to say this Sunday morning - On Freedom:On June 27 Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori preached at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland, in the morning, and at evensong at St. Michael and All Angels in Christchurch.The readings for the day were: 2 Kings 2: 1-2, 6-14; Psalm 77: 1-2, 11-20;

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Readings are here.Sermon notes for Holy Communion, Rock Springs.A reflection in our EfM group and some sermon notes by Robert Cornmer, turned my thoughts to the comparison of the woman and the Pharisee in today's gospel. The two main characters are a study of us in many ways. The woman comes to Jesus in her poverty. She is at the end of her rope and rushes in all hair and tears to offer

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Today we hold the service celebrating my brother's life. Last week he was playing golf and this week he is dead. No one knew that the cancer was there - he lived life until he died. He had good relationships with his kids and grandkids and siblings. It is all just so stunning to us to think of not seeing him in this life. He asked me to do his service and I will. People from various parts of his

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Thoughts toward a sermon:Readings are here.There is a joke that was going around preaching circles last week as we pondered what to say this year about Trinity on this-- the celebration of this revelation.Jesus asked his disciples, “Who do people say that I am? And his disciples answered and said, "Some say you are John the Baptist returned from the dead; others say Elijah, or other of the old

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Just for fun - some regular riders on Mukhtar the bus driver's route organized a flash mob for his birthday. Good news does happenh/t Andrew Sullivan

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Patrick Stewart talks about his personal experience of domestic violence at the launch of 'Created Equal', a new book on women's rights.h/t to Simple Massing Priest

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How do you pronounce the name of the volcano causing all the travel trouble? An Icelandic singer helps:Eyjafjallajokull - pronounced ay-uh-fyat-luh-yoe-kuutl-ul

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From Episcopal Café:Andrew Sullivan, writing on The Atlantic's Web site, has been praising the Episcopal Church for its actions on priests who commit sexual abuse, exploitation and harassment. In the comments on his column stories of quick action following the reporting of abuse have appeared. It is good to hear that our system is working for some people who have suffered at the hands of priests

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I have all sorts of issues with Augusta and their leadership but the scene was grand:

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Readings are here.Thomas is mentioned twice in the Gospel of John. In the passage we read for today and in John 11:16. In the earlier appearance, Thomas is a man of action. Jesus' disciples think they should all stay away from Jerusalem and not go to see about Lazurus death because they are afraid of being killed. When Jesus says he is going anyway, Thomas says " "Let us also go, that we might

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Readings for Easter Sunday are hereThoughts toward a sermon:The thing I notice about the Easter readings this year is how all are so resistant to seeing the Risen Christ. Resurrection seems to be impossible so they cannot see it. New life, when we are used to the same old same old, is invisible to us. Peter in the has to be awakened by his dream to see the new thing God is doing. He is so

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I love the scene where ++Katharine is escorted into the House of Deputies following her election as Presiding Bishop:

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Andrew Plus: Blessed Oscar Romero, pray for us.

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A diagram that helps understand curling here

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From Trinity Cathedral in Phoenix, AZ:and from Episcopal Cafe:Let us show forth the holiness of our creator, with our ashes, so people will know that we are a holy people - committed to God and followers of Jesus Christ. How might we do this? I suggest we move beyond chocolate to declare our own fast and feast ---Fast from judgment, Feast on compassionFast from greed, Feast on sharingFast from

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On the anniversary of the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Message from Katharine Jefferts Schori and Rob Radtke on Haiti and the needs:Go Episcopal Relief and Development to donate.

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Lessons for Christmas 2. How dear to me is your dwelling, O LORD of hosts!*My soul has a desire and longing for the courts of the LORD;my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God. Psalm 84:1How many of us are doing now what we thought we would be doing when we thought about that as children or even a few years ago? How do you deal with the changes and chances that have happened to you along

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Barbara Brown Taylor speaks on the intersection of religion and spirituality. She says "I am religious, but not contentious"and I am spiritual, but not detached". She offers a very articulate discussion of religious dualism. Q and A, too: video platform video management video solutions free video player

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From the newsletter of St. Matthew's Episcopal Church, Fairbanks, Alaska:“But Mary treasured all these things, pondering them in her heart.” (Luke 2:19) Remembering his parents’ red bell, which always hung in the house on Christmas, because it had always hung in his father’s childhood house on Christmas . . . and now has disappeared. maybe. In those days . . . the trash furnace behind the School

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From a heathen and a pagan on the side of the rebel Jesus:h/t to Episcopal Cafe

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Young Israelis refuse to serve in the army while it occupies Palestine:From Jewish Voice for PeaceDear Ann,A year ago today, tens of thousands demanded the release of Israel's youngest prisoners of conscience, the Shministim.These 12th graders courageously chose prison time over serving in the occupying Israeli army, and became heroes to us and the entire world.Last Chanukah, just one day after

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