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Bishops White and Seabury are at it again

Summoned, apparently, by the debate over restructuring the governance of The Episcopal Church, Bishops William White and Samuel Seabury have been resurrected and are continuing their argument over church polity on Twitter.

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Knowing truth

Psalms 24,29 (Morning) Psalms 8, 84 (Evening) Leviticus 8:1-13, 30-36 Hebrews 12:1-14 Luke 4:16-30 When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up,

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Cheek turning

‘You have heard that it was said, “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.” But I say to you, Do not

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Making progress

Hi folks. Efforts to resolve the Cafe’s server problems continue. The Lead seems to be working. We aren’t so sure about the comments. You may

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We’re back. We think.

Folks, we have been through two disruptive rounds of server migration. We hope that things will run smoothly now, but we don’t really know. If

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Part 2: Thinking together

by Donald Schell My older daughter and I were exiting the Imperial War Museum in Manchester (U.K.) where she lives. It was bright outside from

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A Rowan retrospective worth reading

Surely a man who had persuasively concluded that active homosexual relationships might be capable of being free from sin in the Christian sense owed it to the Church, and to the society that Church existed to serve, to contribute his further insights to the development and refinement of the Christian understanding of sexuality.

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Part 1: Journeying to the Song and Gesture

The challenge of finding composers to make new music for a candlelit evening liturgy plunged us into startling discoveries of how it felt to learn music relationally, how a leader modeled the music and gave it away, and how people singing claimed the music as their own and lived into their own authority as music-makers.

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