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Year: 2009

Parish property in Pittsburgh: a clarification

October 9, 2009 2 Comments

The Stipulation requires that there be a dialogue between the diocese and any parish seeking to disaffiliate from the diocese regarding the disposition of property specifically held for or in the name of the parish, followed by mediation (where a neutral third party helps the parties resolve any disputes between them), before the diocese or the parish may resort to the courts to decide the dispute.

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Around One Table

October 9, 2009 No Comments

The results of a major new study were announced yesterday regarding the perceived identity of the people of the Episcopal Church. The Episcopal Identity Project study represent four years worth of data gathering about how Episcopalians understand their Church, what matters to them and how they relate that to the larger world.

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Walking the way of the psalms

October 9, 2009 No Comments

One, or perhaps “the” most marked trait of monastics of any stripe are their focus on the psalms as a primary way of prayer. Be it Benedictines chanting in choir or Jesuits whispering psalms to themselves as they go about the world, psalms are part and parcel of a monastic’s toolbox.

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Judge not

October 9, 2009 No Comments

No one can write his real religious life with pen or pencil. It is written only in actions, and its seal is our character, not our orthodoxy. Whether we, our neighbour, or God is the judge, absolutely the only value of our “religious” life to ourselves or to any one is what it fits us for and enables us to do.

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President Anderson preaches: Stand firm

October 8, 2009 2 Comments

The words stand firm have been claimed to represent some form of righteousness that can only be obtained by digging in and protecting against threatening forces. Stand firm has been used traditionally by unions in negotiation preparations, as in stand firm on no wage concessions, by social movements, as in stand firm on busing. It’s what we prayed in our collect today. We prayed together asking that Church witnesses are raised up after the example of Vida Dutton Scudder to stand firm in the power of the Gospel of Christ Jesus.

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An SC plea to stay together

October 8, 2009 No Comments

Historically we have been encouraged to think for ourselves. It was never required that our honestly-held beliefs comport with those of our priest, bishop, presiding bishop or even the archbishop of Canterbury.

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Living full lives to the end

October 8, 2009 1 Comment

He had been ordained as a Deacon in Christ’s One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church the previous Wednesday evening. Ordained for less than a week, all knew that his death was imminent on the night of his ordination. At some level this makes no sense at all.

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