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Tenth Ring

Suffering multiple organ failure, I had just received a grim diagnosis that I would be having a danger-laden surgery that would alter my life forever. It was the wages of a life that seemed so successful, but was undergirded by the troika of fear, doubt, and guilt – a three-legged stool.

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Something in the water

Psalm 118 (Morning) Psalm 145 (Evening) Zechariah 9:9-16 Trinity Episcopal Church and a postulant to the priesthood in the Kirkepiscatoid.

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Giving thanks

Reading from the Commemoration of Cecelia Then the three with one voice praised and glorified and blessed God in the furnace: ‘Blessed are you, O

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Our problem with authority

by George Clifford We Episcopalians frequently have problems with ecclesiastical authority. Here’s some anecdotal evidence: • Clergy and laity do not want bishops (or, for

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Finding holy ground

Once Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God was coming, and he answered, ‘The kingdom of God is not coming with

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Episcopal “Identity”

by Donald Schell Henry Fielding’s star shines bright in 18th Century Anglicanism. He’s a nuanced moral theologian whose comedy merciless satirizes simplistic moralizing and rigid

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Talents and the Reign of God

There is something very troubling to me about today’s Gospel, St Catherine of Alexandria Episcopal Church, Nehalem/Manzanita on the Oregon Coast. Her book of reflections

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