Found this on Brian Baker’s blog (he found it on You Tube). It will NOT be everyone’s cup of tea, but it’s a powerful rant. Click here to see it. (I note that there is definite language in this video.)
May 22, 2010
I’m Sorry I’m a Christian: Chris Tse
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March 8, 2010
The Strange Saga of Roy Ashburn and the Cost of Being in the Closet
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James Richardson wrote a thoughtful piece on this in his blog. You can find the article here. I think it’s worth reading.
January 16, 2010
Our “Family Service”
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One of the things I’ve never been quite sure how to do is to properly publicize the 9 AM Family Service at St. George’s.
I don’t normally blog about things so specific to St. George’s day to day operations. But I was talking about this service with a Lutheran colleague this past week. He liked what we were doing. And he noted that it was a lot of extra work to prepare this service. Which is right. We’ve put a lot of work (and continue to put a lot of work) into this service to provide something fresh and new. I’ve just never known quite how to market the service beyond our own congregation. (more…)
January 15, 2010
A Woman Bishop is Scotland?
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Episcopal Cafe has an update on the move towards woman bishop’s in the UK. The artile begins:
While the movement towards women bishops is stalled in England because the revision committee missed their deadline, The Scottish Episcopal Church moves towards the election of a new Bishop of Glasgow & Galloway for which one of the three finalists is a woman.
If you want the full update, you can find it here.
December 23, 2009
A Great Night to be the Church
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From Dean Baker’s blog:
Here’s what I wrote for this week’s enewsletter:
On Tuesday night the vestry concluded its discussion of Stephanie Speller’s Radical Welcome. I chose this book because it focused on a core value of Trinity Cathedral – openness. (more…)
October 6, 2009
Outside Looking In
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I found this (so did Dean Baker) at the Daily Episcopalian on Episcopal Cafe:
Outside looking in
By George Clifford
In downtown San Francisco, an abandoned building has furniture, including a refrigerator, sofa, chair, and lamp, hanging out of windows and otherwise attached to the exterior. The building has stood that way for years, with colorful murals decorating the sheets of plywood placed around the ground level to keep people out. I do not know the building’s story, whether the perpetrator(s) intended it as an artistic statement or something else. (more…)
September 28, 2009
Achy Breaky Heart and the Kingdom of God
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This comes whole from Bishop Dan’s Blog:
Last Sunday we said goodbye to Fr. Ed Lovelady who is retiring from All Saints, Las Vegas. It was a fantastic service. It was tri-lingual and multicultural. A packed house. Great worship!!!
Then came the party. One of my best friends, a Georgian of the gay persuasion, was visiting. At one point, I saw him line dancing, holding hands with Rose (Fr. Jun’s mother in law) a Filippina from the Nothern Mountains. Other dancers included Fr. Arsi and Benadette, Fillipionos of the South — different language, ethnicity, and piety. More of the dancers were Latino. And the music was: Billy Ray Cyrus — Achy Breaky Heart.
As I watched this wonder, even before I watched Fr. Ed whaling a pinata and scads of children scambling after the candy he broke loose, I thought to myself, “Sometimes the Church works. Sometimes the Church really is a Kigngdom event right here and now.”
August 26, 2009
The Saints of Summer from Jim Richardson on Fiat Lux
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The Saints of Summer: Thomas Gallaudet and Henry Winter Syle
Thomas Gallaudet (1822-1902) and Henry Winter Syle (1846-1890) were pioneers in the education and inclusion of the deaf in the life of The Episcopal Church. Galladet, born in Connecticut, followed in his father’s footsteps as an educator of the hearing impaired.
Thomas (in the color image) was not deaf, but his wife, Elizabeth was deaf. He was ordained in The Episcopal Church, and established St. Ann’s Church in New York with worship services primarily in sign language.One of Gallaudet’s students, Henry Winter Syle (black and white photograph) became the first deaf person ordained an Episcopal priest. Syle, born in China, educated in Gallaudet’s school, was encouraged by Gallaudet to seek ordination. Syle went on to establish his own congregation for the deaf.The work and witness of Gallaudet and Syle are great reminders that our church has long sought to include all of God’s children at the Holy Table. We follow giant footsteps as we continue their work.
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