Month: November 2020

Subversive Undercroft #175 When It Matters

Jesus’ incarnation shows us that human-ness itself is not the barrier to living into God’s hope for us. We can overcome, through our own effort and walk by faith; And when we do it gladdens the heart of God.

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Telling the Story

“Sometimes we exaggerate just a little or leave out bits that don’t make us feel good about our selves. Our stories began when we were born, with the tales our parents and grandparents told us about what we did and were like before we had any conscious memories of them.”

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Fragments on Fragments #14: Being Human in a Pandemic

“What is a ‘good death’? For many people it’s almost impossible to think of those two words together, but all religious traditions have had their different ideas about what it means to die well – not glorifying death, nor hiding from it. In this shared tragedy, might we be able to find new ways of dying well? The first step would be to reverse the move towards the privatisation of dying (and grieving). I have been with many people at their deathbeds, and the most peaceful and least anxious have been the ones in which death’s coming is acknowledged, both by the families and the dying person.”

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Pray Always; Don’t Lose Heart

“He’s not even expecting us to know for certain what all the injustices are. He only asks us to live in hope and faith that there will come a day when all has been rectified, and work like we believe that day will come.”

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The Beggar King

“But Christ’s reign in our hearts is founded upon entreaty rather than command. Proclaiming Christ as our King is a jubilant, grateful response to God’s plea to allow see ourselves as God’s own beloveds …”

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Dioceses suspend indoor worship

In response to the surge in Covid-19 cases, the dioceses of Central Pennsylvania, Bethlehem, Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania have suspended indoor worship through the end of the year. Has your diocese made recent changes to restrictions on indoor worship?

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Envy and a jealous God

Let this, then, be my prayer: not for an unblemished sacrifice, but for an unblocked heart; not for a unwearied spirit, but for pasture to rest in; not for the perfection of love, but for love enough to continue to pray imperfectly and fervently.

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