“Respondent’s conduct directly attacks the discipline process of the Episcopal Church. Respondent’s conduct continues his personal vendetta about a congregation. Respondent’s secret effort (even from his own church) to sell the church in the midst of the Title IV proceedings undermines the integrity of the process.”
When we accept the mission God has given us, we, too, take our place with Isaiah, Ezekiel, Peter and Paul as evangelists, truth-tellers, stolid neighbors, and enlightened prophets.
Today in our lectionary gospel the disciples receive the instructions: “As you go, proclaim the good news: ‘The kingdom of heaven has come near.’ Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons”
Each Sunday at church my daughter gets the opportunity to be loved by the community. She also gets to share her love.
Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.
I’ll still say it’s hotter’n Hell if the temperature gets above 115°, but this week I think I will try to maintain the right kind of thoughts about Hell and think of how it can be interpreted.
… the church should be spending more time evangelizing the fastest growing demographic group – older people.
When we begin to see all of humanity–and maybe all of the non-human created world, to boot–as “our litter”–something changes in us…and it’s precisely the “something” that hooks us to God. We forget about the power of grace–until it comes in on “little cat feet.”
Our deepest yearnings become realities as we give over our illusion that we are in charge.
… the language of love that God imprinted on us at creation, during Jesus’s ministry and again at our baptism, often seems like a foreign tongue. It’s hard for us to trust in words like “grace,” “mercy,” and “forgiveness” for ourselves as being real, much less for us to speak and live them out to others.