Year: 2014

Taking council in Virginia

There has been a trend in recent years to use diocesan conventions in the Episcopal Church more as opportunities for training and community building than

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Church words

As some readers know, I make my living as a communications consultant, working primarily within the church. I frequently write and edit copy intended for

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Watts, Wesley and the hymns I have ‘by heart’

…we hear a lot about the problem of “classical music” just not being accessible to modern seekers. A challenge for me, and for those like me who have been formed in this hymnody, is to stay in touch with the deeper spirituality that is carried in the best of our hymn tradition, both in the music and the poetry – and perhaps to find new expressions of that spirituality.

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Rooted and grounded in Christ’s love

Coming to that place of understanding – of the breadth and length and height and depth – of the knowledge of Christ’s love which surpasses knowledge – is coming home. When we know that Christ dwells in our hearts, when we are grounded and rooted in Christ’s love, we are at the place where we belong. Even if we have never been here before, we recognize it, and our spirits soar with joy.

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Presiding Bishop preaches on racial reconciliation

The particular challenge of Episcopalians here and across the Church is to acknowledge our complicity in the institution of slavery – that the Church here in Louisiana began and continued as a wealthy, white proclaimer of a gospel of obedience and loyalty to a system of domination.

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A Drunken Cover-Up

Wednesday, January 22, 2014 – Week of 2 Epiphany, Year Two [Go to Mission St Clare for an online version of the Daily Office including

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