February 6, 2014 – Episcopal Cafe

What does your parish do well?

February 6, 2014 3 Comments

Recently, Broderick Greer, a student at Virginia Theological Seminary, asked a simple question on Twitter (where he is @HolaBrody) : What drew you to the

Executive Council takes up thorny governance issues

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The Executive Council is taking up some difficult issues of governance at its meeting near Baltimore. Episcopal News Service has the story:

Electing women to the episcopacy: a double bind?

February 6, 2014 7 Comments

There are three women and no men on the slate of nominees for suffragan bishop in the Diocese of Maryland. The Rev. Sara Irwin has

TREC paper on the role of networks in the Episcopal Church

February 6, 2014 5 Comments

The Task Force for Reimagining the Episcopal Church has published the first of a number of “subject matter” papers that will guide its work and

Epiphany: a season of endings and beginnings

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People may argue for December because Christmas without all the trimmings (and the people) can be a lonely affair, but, at least in my eyes, the thought of a new year is like a stretch of Route 66 that was as straight as an arrow and went on for what seemed like half a million miles with absolutely nothing much in the way of scenery and the mountains that loomed in the distance never seeming to get any closer.

Martyrdom

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I’ve always thought I’d make a terrible martyr. I just don’t think I could manage to be strong and centered while being hung up on a cross and stabbed to death with a lance like the Japanese Christians being honored today…. I’d probably be a total disgrace, sobbing and begging for mercy. I would betray all my beliefs, I am just sure of it.

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