These eyes won’t judge you
June 6, 2010
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A wordless three-month performance piece at the Museum of Modern Art says an awful lot about our hunger for contact.
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Mass church offers service for dog owners
May 6, 2010
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A Danvers, Massachusetts church has offered a service to help dog owners get closer to God while several news sources emphasize that this service is
Recognizing God’s activity for spiritual transformation
April 26, 2010
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Many of us want a better relationship with God and a more fulfilling life, but are we also willing to admit our limitations, struggles, disappointments, and longing? Spiritual growth is truly possible; God is already at work drawing you closer to him and transforming you…
‘Pray for those who persecute you?’ Why? How?
April 18, 2010
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Disagreement and disengagement are not the same; you can still take delight in someone, no matter where you stand on the concerns of the moment.
Keeping death before our eyes
April 16, 2010
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Monastic wisdom has always recommended that everyone keep in mind their mortality. Benedict in his Rule suggests that the religious keep “death in mind at all times”. At first blush nothing seems to be less desirable. Why would I want to remember such a depressing thought? To our ears it seems like a morbid focus on the negatives.
Rejoice Now!
April 3, 2010
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Most Episcopal Churches are just now beginning or just concluding their Easter Vigil services. For most of the country it is Easter! And the first part of the service includes the singing of the Exultet. This version in Spanish is worth your time.
A meditation on Holy Saturday
April 3, 2010
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Canon Giles Frazier was deeply moved by Bishop Pierre Whalon’s account of his recent visit to Haiti on behalf of the Episcopal Church. Canon Frazier used a detail of the eyewitness account as the jumping off point for a meditation of the work of Christ during the most Holy Sabbath of the Triduum, and the need for new understandings of the Atonement.
The Word became flesh, right here
March 2, 2010
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In a diocese like ours where we are aware of the struggles of the Palestinian people and we know what terrible contradictions roil under the old pious title ‘the Holy Land,’ there are extra motives for making the pilgrimage, with opportunities for expressing solidarity with the wronged and for gaining first hand knowledge as a basis for political action and witness.
The news of the day and our Lenten obligation
February 28, 2010
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To walk in Lent with purpose is to occupy a demanding landscape. Media reports of disasters upon disasters only make more demand on us. On nights like these, the prayers we’ve internalized over these years come and pray themselves in us.
Simplicity itself
February 22, 2010
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Many members of your congregation yearn for simpler lives. They see themselves as just a little strange, moving against the mainstream of American consumerism, odd ducks in a world of too much, too fast, too many. In bringing simple lifestyles to the center of your faith-filled conversations, think of Jesus’s own lifestyle, the things he said and did.
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