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Shadows of Advent

December 23, 2012 No Comments

Daily Office readings for Sunday, December 23, 2012: Psalm 24, 29 (Morning) Psalm 8, 84 (Evening) Isaiah 42:1-12 Ephesians 6:10-20 John 3:16-21 Isaiah 42:1-12 NRSV:

A Blessing Station: out in the midst of the Advent crowds

December 22, 2012 3 Comments

This morning, during the darkest week of the year, a small team of us from Grace Episcopal Church in Medford, Massachusetts, stood at the West Medford Commuter Rail Station with a Blessing Station. In an attempt to help be part of Christ’s light during this darkest week of the year, we offered blessings and prayers to anyone who walked by. We were inspired by “Ashes to Go,” and some discussions on Episcopal Café, and were wondering about others ways to help bring the message of the Church outside onto the streets.

Bishop Mathes says NRA’s proposals are misguided

December 22, 2012 1 Comment

I wonder what will be the spiritual and psychic cost to a whole generation raised in armed schools. What will happen next? Demented assailants with bullet proof vests followed by a shootout between “bad guys” and “good guys?” Who will fall in the cross fire? Who will be blamed then?

Bishop Mary Gray-Reeves urges reform of gun laws, NRA

December 22, 2012 No Comments

I have decided I can’t go there, joining the NRA, but I do want to say, if you are a member, and you are appalled that the freedom of gun owners now consistently and repeatedly outweighs an average citizen’s ability to safely go to school, a house of worship, the mall or the movies (just the big shootings this year), then please exercise your membership power and suggest that the lobby get to the table of reasonable negotiation.

Captivity

December 22, 2012 No Comments

On that day the remnant of Israel and the survivors of the house of Jacob will no more lean on the one who struck them,

How romance novels heal the world: happy endings as prayer

December 21, 2012 5 Comments

by Amber Belldene Several years ago, back before video on demand, my husband and I found ourselves with a stack of unwatched DVDs from Netflix.

Wake up

December 20, 2012 No Comments

Matthew 3:1-12 According to Matthew, John the Baptist was the Voice in the Wilderness, the herald of the Christ. His purpose was to invite people

Finally, beloved

December 19, 2012 3 Comments

by Emily A. Mellott Look at that – the reading you picked begins, “finally, beloved.” I don’t know if you did that on purpose –

A monk in the midst

December 17, 2012 No Comments

A new video feature A Monk in the Midst from the Diocese of Massachusetts features Bishop Tom Shaw, a brother of the Society of Saint John the Evangelist, which has its monastery on Harvard Square. In this one, he speaks of how the church “wrecks” Christmas.

Ugandan president speaks against homosexuality at consecration

December 17, 2012 5 Comments

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni preached against homosexuality at the consecration of The Rt. Rev. Stanley Ntagali as primate of the Church of Uganda this weekend. But has he also signaled his intention not to sign the draconian anti-gay legislation under consideration by that country’s parliament?

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