Subversive Undercroft #184: Ye Olde Covenant
February 7, 2021
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Snow, sunshine, cool vestments, and what the covenants of the Hebrew Scriptures have to do with our faith today.
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Year: 2021
2FAB: St Margaret of Cortona
February 7, 2021
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Luci and Jordan continue to “annotate” the lives of the beatified; this week it’s St Margaret of Cortona
Prayer and God’s Way
February 7, 2021
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“Where are you getting your “marching orders” from these days? Are you serving the needs of the small self, or are you working for God? It’s usually not an either-or issue so much as a complicated mish-mash.”
Words in the Wind
February 6, 2021
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“Jesus often spoke to large crowds, unaided by electronic devices to amplify sound. Crowds in Jesus’s day were accustomed to listening with care and attention. There was no media recording and replaying sound and video later.”
Fragments on Fragments #32: Being Human in a Pandemic
February 5, 2021
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Losses over the last few months have been of different kinds, but few of us have escaped without any sense of losing something. Living with loss is one of the hardest pieces of work for the human psyche. The loss of bereavement is the greatest, but at every level work needs to be done, not to ‘get over’ our loss, but to find out how we can continue to live with it and through it. Let us not underestimate how much there is to do, for ourselves and for our communities.
God Desires Healing
February 5, 2021
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“As we traverse this second year of COVID with fears about the possibilities of more restrictions conflicting with our desire to get rid of masks and start gathering together, I know that many of us are wondering, ‘Does God believe in healing?'”
The Rev. Pauli Murray documentary at Sundance
February 4, 2021
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Fifteen years before Rosa Parks refused to move from her seat, Murray and her good friend Adelene McBean were jailed for refusing to budge on a bus in Richmond, Va. Nearly 20 years before the lunch-counter sit-ins, Murray headed protests that desegregated restaurants in Washington, D.C. Five years before Ginsburg argued her gender equality case before the Supreme Court, Murray was leveraging the 14th Amendment on behalf of women.
Diocese of Central Pennsylvania partnership creates emergency housing
February 4, 2021
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A homeless shelter in Carlisle will use the former Episcopal Home owned by the Diocese of Central Pennsylvania for family emergency housing. Episcopal Home, a senior living facility, closed in September after 93 years of service.
Bonhoeffer and The Heart of Christian Living
February 4, 2021
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“Bearing contempt for others cannot be made right just by offering a gift at the altar. No, that’s too easy, and avoids the very real work of reconciliation. The entire point of covenants and commandments is that we live in RELATIONSHIP with God and with each other.”
Church of England plans for the future hit by pandemic
February 3, 2021
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The document, Perspectives on Money, People and Buildings, seen by the Church Times on Monday, has not been made public, despite confusion from parish priests and others about media reports on its contents, and a declaration at the start: “Honest sharing of information on how those resources of money, people and buildings are being stewarded for greatest impact is vital.” – Church Times
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