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Future Now
Why do we struggle with taking steps today that would bring a better tomorrow? We tend to hide part of the equation.
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Preparing for the Advent (Advent 1A)
Getting started with Advent 1A with familiar themes for the season. The most obvious of them is preparation.
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Advent—here now and coming soon
The season of Advent combines the sense of anticipating heaven in the now and at a moment some time in the future.
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Of what I was afraid
To tell you the absolute truth, I was not afraid I would die; I was afraid I would be damaged. Prepping for a colonoscopy, going into the hospital, being put under, being told of what was found: each of these caused concern for me. And if you’ve been reading along, you know my anxiety with…
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The Gut-Ball of Frustration
Phone interviews are different when you are at home most of the day. In the Episcopal Church, our process of discerning a call to ministry in a congregation has several steps. You put all of your info online, answering a bunch of questions. Then contact is made, either presbyter to congregation, presbyter to diocese, congregation…
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Confirmation: Why?
In light of the long evolution of our theology, the troubled and inconsistent history of the Sacrament of Confirmation I was struck on Sunday by our needs for an evolution in the practice of Confirmation.
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Seminary Truths 102
I loved seminary. I continue to believe in it. I would be completely unprepared for the priesthood had I not done seminary. In fact, I might be the poster child for pre-seminary idiocy and indifference to the workings of the church. Seminary is the training ground, afterall, for the future leaders of the church. Seminary…
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Seminary Truths 101
A first in a series of posts about the nature of seminary–what it is and what it is not–and what it hopes to be in the future. This post deals with the charge of the primacy of politics.