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Being Together
Our focus on being together can get in the way of making it happen–and doing the very thing we’re called to do.
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Pray
Making your beautiful prayer common. Prompt 5: Let’s hear what you’ve got! Read: Read over your notes and prayers from last week. Assignment: Pick an opening and closing that you like. And practice praying with the basic outline. Practice in a mirror, in the shower, or in your car–wherever you are.Take notes on what works for you…
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Prayer Book Revision in Three Headlines
Did The Episcopal Church vote to revise its Prayer Book? Yes and No. The one thing missing from the 79th General Convention coverage is how we chose confusion over clarity. Prayer Book Revision On Hold. Sort of. But Not Really? Depending on where you got your General Convention coverage, the headlines declared the House of…
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A Book of Prayer for Common People
For many, the Book of Common Prayer is a source of continuity and comfort. What they rarely recognize is that it is a radical, world-changing document. Written and updated by Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (1533-1556), the Book of Common Prayer, or BCP was a radical invention formed of a radical time. England, thoroughly enmeshed in another of…
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The failure of rigidity in Christian faith
I went to seminary to find the answers. All of them. To be smart and do the right things. It took longer than it should’ve to see how wrong I was. I had swallowed that ridiculousness whole. Liturgy was uniform and precise. Beliefs were specific and certain. There was a common understanding that went all…
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Confession
“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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Word obsessed
Lately, though, words have begun to mean even more to me. Not simply because I write, teach, and preach as a priest or as a sentry posted to defend orthodoxy from the heretics. [That’s all nonsense to me, by the way.] But because our faith keeps coming back to words. Simply words. Having words. Words…
