When one discerns for the ordained ministry in TEC, the entirety of one’s life is picked apart, analyzed and judged as being worthy of recommendation to the bishop for ordination. Is it any wonder that those who pass the strictures of said processes often act if they are somehow superior to those not “in the club”?
When old ideas lose energy, when relationships wane, when institutions crumble, when things unravel, when we feel decay, when understanding fails — “stand up and raise your heads.”
Harriet Baber makes a couple of provocative claims in a comment on yesterday’s item about why people don’t go to church. She notes:
Another song of the season for your Sunday evening pleasure:
reflects on Christmas and the feelings it sometimes evokes:
The Rt. Rev. Greg Rickel of the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia Rev. Rachel Taber-Hamilton, rector of Trinity, Everett, WA:
Programs are at the bottom of the list for why people don’t come to church.
Psalm 148, 149, 150 (Morning) Psalm 114, 115 (Evening) Isaiah 5:1-7 2 Peter 3:11-18 Luke 7:28-35 Luke 7:28-35 NRSV: I tell you, among those born
The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, the Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori will visit the Diocese of South Carolina in January according to