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Year: 2010

Calls rise to probe Capitol Hill Muslim prayer session

December 16, 2010 2 Comments

When zero takes the plural (as in, zero calls) it’s grammatically correct for Pat Robertson’s CBN uses the headline “Calls Rise to Probe Capitol Hill Muslim Prayer Session” when Robertson’s American Center for Law and Justice issues the only call. Did we mention Jordan Sekulow, the ACLJ’s Director of International Operations, is a contributor to the Washington Post’s On Faith blog?

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Monastic values: reflections of a warden in budget season

December 16, 2010 3 Comments

As I prepared for the November vestry meeting, I spent some time reflecting on the three vows that monks take, the vows of “Obedience”, “Stability” and “Conversatio” or “conversion of heart.” Unpacking these ideas has been helpful to me – and was helpful to the vestry, meeting about the budget in November. So I thought I’d share some thoughts about them here.

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Transience

December 16, 2010 No Comments

Someone asked me recently: what is it that haunts you? I said, “I can tell you exactly; it is the sense of time slipping through my fingers like fine sand. And there is nothing I can do to slow it.” One of the Psalms prays: “O Lord, help me to see the shortness of life that I may gain wisdom of heart.”

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Churches respond to recession

December 15, 2010 1 Comment

To make ends meet, churches have laid off staff and frozen salaries, put off major capital projects and cut back on programs. At the same time, more of their congregation members and neighbors are asking for help with basic needs such as paying the rent and buying groceries.

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How to avoid lay ministry burnout

December 15, 2010 2 Comments

Even if they maintain their ministry tasks, they are absent from worship and other spiritual formation activities. Their spiritual identity is based solely upon their responsibilities and no longer in their relationship with Christ.

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Pennsylvania Standing Committee meets with Presiding Bishop

December 15, 2010 3 Comments

Eight members the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Pennsylvania met with the Presiding Bishop, the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori, and with her chancellor, David Booth Beers, and the Officer for Pastoral Development, the Right Rev. F. Clayton Matthews to discuss the situation of the Bishop of Pennsylvania.

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The White Light Festival

December 15, 2010 2 Comments

When the applause died down and the lights went up, I sat in my seat at the center of the front row spellbound by the performance of Judith I had just seen. I’d heard her anxiety, her prayers, and her courage. I’d heard the words of the dying Holofernes. But how? The biblical text doesn’t record them. So what was it I’d heard?

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Nation’s oldest Episcopal camp celebrates 125 years

December 15, 2010 No Comments

Church of the Incarnation, Manhattan, began its camp in 1886 as a way to provide a “fresh air” respite for the city’s immigrants, many of them Armenian . . . The camp was an outreach of the Chapel of the Incarnation, now called Church of the Good Shepherd and located on 31st Street.

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