Pittsburgh calls assisting bishop
December 13, 2008
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Lay delegates from 27 congregations and 42 clergy gathered today to reorganize the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh.
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Long distance Christmas
December 13, 2008
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Bishop George Packard, the Episcopal Bishop in charge of Chaplaincies, points us to a new resource offered by Episcopal Church to families celebrating Christmas while
Self-mortification for your environmental guilt trip
December 13, 2008
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The New York Times Magazine is filled with ideas from 2008. One is a device for doing carbon penance: Annina Rüst, a Swiss-born artist-inventor, wanted
Whole lotta liturgy goin’ on…
December 13, 2008
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Bishop Mark Dyer offers an image of the church hosting a giant “Rummage Sale” every 500 years – a sale where that which no longer serves the work of the Spirit is cleared away to make room for fresh expressions of ministry. What might the church might have to let go of, for the sake of new life?
Reviewing Rowan
December 13, 2008
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Libby Purves, in The Times, expressed the disappointment of many kindly disposed observers at this early stage of Williams’s pontificate when she wrote: “Rowan Williams seemed like a wild card, a holy man from the West come to revive the Faith. Alas, the dreadful suspicion grows that he is just another Archbishop of Canterbury.”
How Obama won the Latino vote
December 13, 2008
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John and “the immersion
of mind change”
December 13, 2008
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Despite the popularity of the old book, I’m OK, You’re OK – I don’t believe that. I am not O.K. And neither are you. Not on our own. Not as we are. Not without the Grace of God. As Mark explains in the first verses of the first chapter of the first Gospel — the beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ for all people happens when Grace works within us, making way for God’s mercy to get through.
Bearer of light
December 13, 2008
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A favorite Scandinavian holiday tradition is tied to the beautiful white clad figure of Lucia, the “bearer of light,” who illuminates the darkness of winter on the morning of December 13th. Very early, before dawn, when the world is still blanketed in darkness, Lucia appears at each bedside, dressed in a white gown with a red sash.
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