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Year: 2007

Do nothing to change your life

August 14, 2007 1 Comment

Dr John Sentamu, the Anglican Archbishop of York, has announced that he is to send every MP in the country some summer reflection material: The 100-Minute Bible, and a guide to slowing down, Do Nothing To Change Your Life, which urges its readers to create pauses in daily life to benefit their own, and society’s, health and well being. The book argues this fresh perspective of relishing every moment with a greater attentiveness will improve our relationship with God.

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Read, mark, learn…

August 14, 2007 No Comments

The truth is that we Episcopalians could stand to learn a thing or two from our evangelical brothers and sisters. Even when we know quite a bit about the Scriptures, we are bashful about sharing our knowledge in a way that communicates comfort with these strange stories in which our faith is rooted. Rather than castigate literalists we would do well to engage the narrative and offer more varied interpretations that are accessible to all.

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Jonathan Myric Daniels

August 14, 2007 No Comments

Like the early Christian witness, Daniels could write, “We are beginning to see as we never saw before that we are truly in the world and yet ultimately not of it.” He was sickened by signs saying “White Only,” but uncomfortable as well with making too “smart” an answer to a segregationist.

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Evangelizing Ethically

August 13, 2007 3 Comments

A world wide gathering of representatives of several Christian traditions in Toulouse, France, representing Roman Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Evangelical and Pentecostal traditions met to develop

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Virginia schism leads to answered prayers

August 13, 2007 No Comments

Bill Mehr writes: “When The Falls Church asked about room to temporarily worship at the Presbyterian Church down the street, they were told, “We were waiting for you to call.” St. Margaret’s rector told how they’d started Sunday services with four worshippers, two of which were clergy. Now they average more than 60. Now, the hymns are accompanied, with sublime grace and beauty, by one man playing a trumpet.”

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Two Brothers, Two Journeys, Same Christ

August 13, 2007 No Comments

Two brothers, both Episcopal priests, symbolize the difficult choices and strong feelings that grow out of the current struggles in the Episcopal Church. They ministers just miles away from one another. They are deeply committed Christians and Anglicans. Yet Fr. Bill Murdoch of West Newbury, MA, is leaving the Episcopal Church, starting a congregation affiliated with the Anglican Church in Kenya and will be consecrated a missionary bishop of that communion. At the same time, his brother, Brian, serves a church in West Roxbury, also of the Diocese of Massachusetts, and is gay. They both hope that the struggle in the church does not become a division for their family.

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Remembering Jonathan Daniels

August 13, 2007 No Comments

The violent death of Episcopal seminarian Jonathan Daniels’ was remembered Saturday by 200 people who braved in 103-degree heat to honor the white seminary student

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I object!

August 13, 2007 No Comments

I’ve been a parish priest long enough that I’ve been through five General Conventions. I learned early on to dread them. Not so much because I had anything to do with them, or frankly in the beginning even paid attention to them. I feared them because of what my parishioners reactions were going to be to actions that General Convention had taken, and with which they disagreed.

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Right intentions

August 13, 2007 No Comments

It is probable our hearts are right with God, and our intentions innocent and pious, if we set upon actions of religion or civil life with an affection proportionate to the quality of the work; that we act our temporal affairs with a desire no greater than our necessity;

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