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A camp where transgender kids can be themselves

September 3, 2012 1 Comment

Bella English of The Boston Globe has written a lovely story about a camp for transgender children.

How to change your vicar: part two

September 3, 2012 No Comments

My second piece of advice is for people who believe there may be a capability issue with their vicar. For this to go anywhere formally, it should normally relate to what incumbents are actually there to do. A hymn writing, guitar playing or beekeeping fail is bad news. But it’s unlikely to support capability proceedings.

Labor Day and the lessons of history

September 3, 2012 3 Comments

Labor Day seems a good time to remind ourselves how many lives were lost in the fight for safe work places, reasonable working hours and collective bargaining rights. People who now have streets named after them were beaten bloody, and survived assassination attempts.

Fraser to Tutu: Morality is not about having clean hands

September 3, 2012 9 Comments

The reason I recoil at Tutu’s decision is that it smacks too much of the sort of thinking that he has, in other contexts, done so much to dismantle – the idea that it is the purpose of morality to make one feel better about oneself, to feel that one is on the right side, that one is with the angels. But morality is not about having clean hands.

Storms of life

September 2, 2012 1 Comment

Storms bring tempests of wind, deluges, and blizzards–and a special kind of grace despite the wreckage. Just as it rains on the just and the unjust, the wind blows on the just and the unjust, too. Storms bring both darkness and light simultaneously–flashes of brilliant light against a background of darkness.

Not-so-good healing day

September 2, 2012 No Comments

Psalm 146, 147 (Morning) Psalm 111, 112, 113 (Evening) Job 4:1-6, 12-21 Revelation 4:1-11 Mark 6:1-6a Mark 6:1-6a (NRSV): He left that place and came

What happens in Caesarea doesn’t stay in Caesarea

September 1, 2012 No Comments

Now the apostles and the believers who were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also accepted the word of God. So when Peter went

Credo

August 31, 2012 49 Comments

by Lawson Wulsin Three years ago, after being served communion once again by my brother, the priest of St Andrew’s Episcopal Church, and reciting the

Who knew? Mitt Romney, Bain Capital and the Episcopal Church Pension Fund

August 30, 2012 23 Comments

In those days, sometimes I wondered if I had made a really big mistake. I had thought about asking my church’s pension fund to invest, but I didn’t. I figured it was bad enough that I might lose my investors’ money, but I didn’t want to go to hell too. Shows what I know. Another of my partners got the Episcopal Church pension fund to invest. Today there are a lot of happy retired priests who should thank him.

Promoting civility

August 30, 2012 2 Comments

Religious fundamentalists who insist that politics must be theocratic or Theodosian—equating a particular political order with God’s will or design—often find democracy the work of

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