Episcopal

  • Jennifer, Child of God and Bishop

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    In a few hours, over 1,400 people will gather in Indianapolis for the ordination of the 11th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis. And she is amazing. When Jennifer Baskerville-Burrows came to the walkabouts last fall, she knocked our socks off. Many of us wondered is it just me, or is she amazing? Apparently…

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  • Liturgy & the Event

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    The earliest rule I remember about church was my Mom telling me when I was 4 or 5, sitting in the balcony at the back of Trinity, Alpena and she pointed to the Lord’s Prayer and said to me that this is the one thing she expected me to memorize. The rest of the service,…

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  • Confession

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    “We don’t do confession.” I remember the conversations I used to have as a child about church. And it was usually how we do things differently or what is an E-piss-co-palian? Which always was accompanied with laughter. This childhood was in Alpena, a small city in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. Alpena was largely Polish, then;…

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  • Oversimplifying the problem is killing us

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    We are fond of the dialectic method of arguing. In this, there is always “us and them” and things are always “black and white”. We assign sides and it is simple and clean. Life is never so simple and clean. Those raising concerns about systemic violence in the criminal justice system, particularly toward young, unarmed, black…

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  • You aren’t supposed to understand the sacraments

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    Each Sunday I am privileged to worship and share in Holy Eucharist with a people committed to serving GOD. It is an awesome responsibility and brings feelings of great joy, humility, gratitude, and occasionally frustration every single time. We gather in word and song and prayer, lifting our bodies and our hearts and voices to…

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  • We are the voices of many calling in the wilderness

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    Make straight the way for the Lord.   Beginning with fireflies, whose light dances and shifts in the childhood remembrance of night, we are reminded again of the ongoing truth of light in darkness. Of the presence of Jesus and piercing of the oppressive veil darkness holds on us. In the midst of the dark night, not…

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  • With Regards To Conflict

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    MadPriest made a cogent statement over at his blog about the relationship between Sudan and the Episcopal Church: The Episcopal Church of Sudan’s retraction of their invitation to the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in the USA is like the Jew set upon by robbers, upon his recovery, telling the good Samaritan to fuck…

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  • into the wild

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    Though I’ve read the book by Jon Krakauer, this isn’t a book review, or even a direct allusion. But maybe it is. It seems as if we are bound to our domesticated life by shear will and determination. It is out in the wild that we actually yearn to live. Maybe its time we moved…

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