Category: Daily Episcopalian

Truth will out

By the time I had signed for my check and walked off, I made a decision to lie about something. I decided that if asked what I do, I would lie and say that I was “a nonessential government employee.” This, I reasoned, would have the double benefit of bringing both awareness of a much larger issue and and keeping me from hearing an hour-long confession I was not prepared to hear.

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Epiphany

Some insist we are a “Christian” nation but how can we be if we ignore the very people Jesus spoke about the most – the poor, the ill, the widows and orphans? How can we claim it if we enable the rich to get richer while the poor only get poorer? Whether we are Christian, a member of some other religion or no religion at all, we all bear a share of the blame.

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Do we need denominations?

by George Clifford When people search for a church to join, one early stage decision in the process is whether to find a denominational or

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The angry priest or the boorish photographer?

… bad photography (and unconscious photographers) can, like bad liturgy (and unconscious celebrants), get in the way. This is what happened in the video when it went viral: the conversation became about “The Angry Priest vs. The Boorish Photographers” when we should have been celebrating the couple’s marriage.

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Collars

by Jim Papile Following up on St. Anne’s Reston Virginia. Originally from Boston, he is a proud member of Red Sox Nation.

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Call no one father

by Mark Stanley Isn’t it time that we stopped using the title “Father” for priests? Even though Jesus said, “Call no one Father” (Old St.

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