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Day: June 19, 2012

Juneteenth

June 19, 2012 No Comments

Dating back to 1865, it was on June 19th that the Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. Note that this was two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation – which had become official January 1, 1863. The Emancipation Proclamation had little impact on the Texans due to the minimal number of Union troops to enforce the new Executive Order.

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Don’t restructure for mission, restructure through mission

June 19, 2012 3 Comments

Amid all the calls the restructuring, instead of setting up a new special commission to study what could be done and calling a special convention to recommend canonical changes, perhaps the Church would be better served by implementing A073, which focuses on the actual doing of mission.

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The Temple Tax

June 19, 2012 No Comments

“What do you think, Simon? From whom do kings of the earth take toll or tribute? From their children or from others?” Easy answer — from others.

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What should Trinity, Wall Street have done?

June 19, 2012 17 Comments

I have had a difficult time understanding exactly what Trinity, Wall Street could and couldn’t have done to avoid a situation in which an Episcopal Church was involved in the criminal prosecution of a retired Episcopal bishop and an Episcopal priest for what seems to me, at this point, to be little more than street theater.

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