Happy St Nicholas Day
December 6, 2011
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Did you put out your shoes? What did you find in them? A coin? or? Does your church celebrate this day? A celebration was held
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Nicholas
December 6, 2011
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Happy legends are comfortable. They make us feel better. We don’t have to move much outside ourselves to exist within them.
Redemption
December 5, 2011
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… the more I continue to study the more I realize Clement of Alexandria is one of my spiritual ancestors, one of those who gave me the ability and the courage to set aside the certainties I’d had in my former church beliefs and embrace new possibilities, including the idea that the entire world will be redeemed,…
Prepare ye the way
December 5, 2011
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When we prepare a highway for the Lord, we need to remember it wasn’t built in a day–nor will we get used to it in a day.
How doctors die
December 4, 2011
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I cannot count the number of times fellow physicians have told me, in words that vary only slightly, “Promise me if you find me like this that you’ll kill me.” They mean it. Some medical personnel wear medallions stamped “NO CODE” to tell physicians not to perform CPR on them. I have even seen it as a tattoo.
Naming
December 4, 2011
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How many times have we been stuck in situations where we have a name for what is going on, or we know what our feelings are about it, but everyone else tells us otherwise, or chooses to assign feelings to us, or project their own stuff on us?
A strange beginning to Advent
December 3, 2011
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Then the Pharisees went and plotted to entrap him in what he said. So they sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying,
Bible-Reading Episcopalian: Who Knew?
December 2, 2011
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What would it be like, if people knew Episcopalians as people who were faithful, creative, thoughtful and open-hearted readers of the Bible, and who do regard it as the Word of God for us, in each succeeding generation, using all the resources of reason and tradition to “hear read, mark learn and inwardly digest” what the Scriptures contain?
Hollywood and mission in the first week of Advent
December 2, 2011
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It is an interesting thought to ponder –that while this nation was wracked in increasing political gridlock and friction and the threat to the Union regarding the boundaries of States’ rights and equality-liberty-and-justice for all, Williams chose to look beyond the horizons of his nativity and set his sight on Asia.
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