Sabbath
July 10, 2016
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This originally appeared as part of the Daily Sip, a ministry of St John’s Cathedral in Denver, CO by Charles LaFond Sabbath
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Author: Jon White
Faith Reels: ‘Our Kind of Traitor’ … on which side?
July 8, 2016
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This week’s review is the ethically challenged film ‘Our Kind of Traitor,’ a John le Carre novel brought to film starring Ewan McGregor
Popping Collars #43: Ashes to Ashes
July 7, 2016
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Ben, Burl, Eric, and Greg look back on the hit television series Six Feet Under and share their own stories and perspectives on dealing with death and grieving in parish ministry.
California Supreme Court will decide soon whether to accept appeal of San Joaquin property case
July 7, 2016
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If the California Supreme Court decides to accept the breakaway dioceses’ appeal, the property litigation will continue. If it doesn’t then the decision from 2014 awarding 28 disputed properties to the continuing diocese stands.
How small is too small?
July 7, 2016
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How willing are we to forgo the structures that served us well in the past but which are no longer fit for purpose?
Do You Believe. . . .
July 4, 2016
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‘And maybe today is a cloudy, cynical day – but I have to wonder is anyone even concerned? Does anyone stop, and think, and then think some more? I think if we did, our world would look very different.”
Letter to the Editor: Gender identity discrimination
July 3, 2016
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“There is a strong temptation to look at the successes of the gay rights movement and celebrate victory. The hard fact is that the gay rights movement has not always served or assisted transgender people. Transgender people have often not been the focus or the aim of the gay rights movement, and that reality is clear in the Episcopal Church. The sad reality is that there are no transgender people employed full time in the Episcopal Church.”
Summer Knowledge – A Photo Essay
July 3, 2016
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Jim Friedrich, the Religious Imagineer, explores the Spirituality of Summer in this photo essay
Safe Space After Orlando?
July 3, 2016
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If no one and no place is safe, are we now to live in abject fear, anxiously confined to certain places, inhibited from living a full and free life, resolved to build walls around our houses, communities, or across our borders both to keep others out and to keep us safe, and perhaps even buying guns? Surely not.
Christ-like or Christian-ish?
July 3, 2016
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I think a church can and should be a place in which we live like rocks in a rock-tumbler – being tossed around inside as it turns, spraying water and knocking jagged edges until we are smooth and kind to the touch, like God. But too many churches are not like that at all.
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