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Day: November 22, 2007

Presiding bishop gives thanks in Guam

November 22, 2007 No Comments

Fresh from her visit to the peace conference in Korea, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori visited Guam, which is estimated to have about 250 Episcopalians, according to the Pacific Daily News. Yesterday, she visited St. John’s School and delivered a sermon to the more than 500 students there, saying, “The basic reason you and I have come to a place like this is to say, ‘Thank you,'” she said. “Thank you for our blessings from God. Thank you for the abundance of life, … for our family, friends and neighbors.”

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Divisions are distracting us

November 22, 2007 No Comments

“Drenched in Grace” is a residential conference offered up by Inclusive Church, and is going on now in England. The writers over at Inclusive Church Blog are providing recaps of the featured speakers. Notable was yesterday’s opening keynote, delivered by the Dr Jenny Plane Te Paa, who “lamented our obsession with drawing lines that exclude, which is distracting us from the enormous suffering so many people face.”

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Responses of the Primates to New Orleans communiqué

November 22, 2007 No Comments

The Archbishop of Canterbury has written to Anglican Communion Primates and members of the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) with a summary of their individual responses to the outcome of September House of Bishops meeting of the Episcopal Church (USA). He made it clear that he was not at this stage advancing his own interpretation of these responses.

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Rector invites entire congregation over for turkey

November 22, 2007 No Comments

At Steve and Jean Keplinger’s Thanksgiving table, there will be turkey, ham and sauerkraut, mixed with traditional foods reflecting a potpourri of cultures. Nearly 200 people have been invited, and if you happen to show up, they’ll squeeze you in somehow. That the rector of St. David’s Episcopal Church has invited his entire congregation to dinner at home is not unusual….

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Thank who?

November 22, 2007 No Comments

Thanksgiving is not a purely civic holiday like Independence Day, although we are, in part, celebrating the fortitude of our Pilgrim forebears. Nor, like Christmas or Passover, does it come freighted with the content of a particular faith. Rather, Thanksgiving straddles these two categories; it is civic and religious. To paraphrase Jesus, Thanksgiving gives both to Caesar and to God.

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Thanks for small things

November 22, 2007 No Comments

Only he who gives thanks for little things receives the big things. We prevent God from giving us the great spiritual gifts he has in store for us, because we do not give thanks for daily gifts. We think we dare not be satisfied with the small measure of spiritual knowledge, experience and love that has been given to us,

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