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How can I love my neighbor?

AM: Psalm 137:1-6 (7-9); Psalm 144 PM: Psalm 104 Numbers 24:12-25 Romans 8:18-25 Matthew 22:34-40 When the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees,

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GC committee says time to sell 815

The Committee on Structure cut to the chase this morning, editing D016 down from eight resolutions to one: Sell the Episcopal Church headquarters at 815 Second Avenue before the 78th General Convention.

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Friday reflections

Psalm 140, 142 Numbers 24:1-13 Romans 8:12-17 Matthew 22:15-22 “Deliver me, O LORD, from evildoers; protect me from the violent, Who devise evil in their

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Will Episcopal Relief and Development take a hit?

Episcopal Relief and Development will lose more than $700,000 that the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church intended to send its way if the church’s General Convention adopts a budget proposal offered by Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori.

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Can we reduce the asking right now?

I am not a financial savant, but I wonder what a budget that stripped out or reduced the new spending the presiding bishop has proposed and put that money toward reducing the asking in this triennium would look like.

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Convention eve

Still, it all seemed unnaturally quiet, unnaturally empty. The tall, wide halls seemed almost empty. The Exhibit Hall lacked, well, some hubbub. Tomorrow it will be noisy and busy and will verge at times on chaos; but today it has been peaceful and calm.

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Paying attention

‘Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a wine press in it, and built

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