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Day: February 5, 2011

Brewing up church community

February 5, 2011 3 Comments

Back in the day Episcopal Church congregations used to organize themselves into Foyers groups (small dinner groups) to find ways to get to know each

Alternative liturgies are featured in this week’s Saturday Collection, with one congregation doing a modern adaption of Evensong for Superbowl weekend, a PA parish doing a U2’charist to raise funds for the Sudan, and an Interfaith worship service in Rochester NY. There’s an account of a particularly industrious way to raise money for a parish Food Bank and of a different twist to Youth ministry.

A priest rediscovers faith

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There’s a moving story of an Episcopal priest’s crisis of faith that started when a medical crisis nearly destroyed his family. The Orange County Register tells the story of The Rev. Brad Karelius, rector of Church of the Messiah.

Super Bowl weekend bishop bets

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America’s great

The Super Bowl as liturgy

February 5, 2011 5 Comments

The Super Bowl is the great liturgy of the United States of America and for many around the world. It binds us together across the usual divides of class and race, even if you are among those who never watch football. Like our liturgies of the church it has its own rhythms and order. Good and evil contend for our allegiances.

Dissent at the heart of unity

February 5, 2011 1 Comment

When the Puritans had lived in England, it was clear who they were: they were not the established Church of England. They held up the Bible as the pure word of God and preached faith as the central requirement in the human relationship with God. They saw no need for bishops and Prayer Books.