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From the Daily Sip: Ambition

January 15, 2017 1 Comment

Vocation is something so different from ambition. Vocation is honest. It is a path while ambition is the bulldozer on the front end of a road to power.

2 FAB #27: Numbers 26 & 27

January 15, 2017 2 Comments

Luci and Jordan continue their feminist journey through the Bible with Jordan’s favorite story in Numbers (her favorite way to get poked in the eye?), the daughters of Zelophehad

Point of View: Inaugural Prayer: Throwing Away Our Shot

January 15, 2017 31 Comments

The Rev Janet Vincent offer her perspective on the controversy surrounding the participation of a National Cathedral choir in the upcoming presidential election based on her own experience of negotiating with Donald Trump

A radical Way of being

January 15, 2017 No Comments

Christians are called to a Radical Faith. Christians, when they live as though their baptisms matter, are radicals. Jesus was a radical. A radical is one who advocates and works for fundamental or revolutionary changes in current practices, conditions.

Remember your baptism!

January 15, 2017 13 Comments

During his annual visit to our church today, the bishop will baptize Evanna. She’s a tall, somewhat plump transgender woman around age twenty… Our church has one other trans member, my sixteen-year-old son, Max… This is a safe place, yet instinctively I watch people’s reactions toward LGBTQ people. I look out for Evanna as if she were my own child.

Popping Collars #53: Unpresidented

January 13, 2017 No Comments

Greg, James, Liz, and Ricardo discuss their favorite fictional presidents and try to figure out what it means to our communities with a pop culture figure in the White House.

Faith Reels: Silence

January 13, 2017 6 Comments

Bonnie and Dan take a break from their hiatus to deliver a review of the new Martin Scorsese film, Silence

Containers for peace: Singing, reflection and community-building

January 12, 2017 1 Comment

Last October, I flew to New Hampshire with two friends to attend workshop called Music that Makes Community, a nonprofit that holds workshops teaching paperless music. For us, it sounded like a way to bring more life and communion through music to my small congregation.

Whitechapel foundry and a decades long love of handbells

January 8, 2017 No Comments

A response to news of the closing of the Whitechapel bell foundry by a lover of handbells

2FAB: Episode 25 Numbers 21