November 24, 2010 – Episcopal Cafe

Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation

November 24, 2010 1 Comment

The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften the heart which is habitually insensible to the everwatchful providence of almighty God.

Ideas from Seth Godin

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8. Ideas fear experts, but they adore beginner’s mind. A little awareness is a good thing

9. Ideas come in spurts, until you get frightened. Willie Nelson wrote three of his biggest hits in one week

10. Ideas come from trouble

Covenant news roundup

November 24, 2010 6 Comments

A roundup of news and blogs on the Anglican Covenant vote at the Church of England’s General Synod…

What were the pilgrims really like?

November 24, 2010 2 Comments

Nathaniel Hawthorne, who came along a couple of centuries later, bears some of the blame for the most repeated of the answers: that Puritans were self-righteous and authoritarian, bent on making everyone conform to a rigid set of rules and ostracizing everyone who disagreed with them.

General Synod sends Covenant to dioceses for approval

November 24, 2010 10 Comments

General Synod has backed the Anglican Communion Covenant by lopsided margins in all three houses.

Happy Thanksgiving from Episcopal Cafe

November 24, 2010 3 Comments

Thanksgiving is not a purely civic holiday like Memorial Day or 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.

Truth in operation

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Right is founded upon Truth; it is the Truth gone into operation. Now the Truth that underlies our actions towards others is the relations we hold with others. What we can all do at once is to awake to a consciousness of these relations and begin to correspond to them in our dealings with the cook and the waiting-maid, the clerk and the cash-girl, the railway conductor and the telegraph-boy, the factory-operative, the dressmaker, the newspaper reporter, as well as the beggar and the charity “case.”

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