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Bible Study: Epiphany 3 (C) – 2013

January 27, 2013

[…] period, after the return of the Jewish people to Jerusalem from exile in Babylonia. The books of Ezra and Nehemiah are a narrative of the restoration of the Jewish people […]

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Presiding Bishop’s keynote address

April 1, 2015

[…] We have before us this day life and death.  Which will we choose?     Book of Common Prayer p 370  E.g., The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert.  Holt, 2014.  For a brief introduction, cf. Norman […]

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Today Is Rogation Sunday…, Easter 6 (C) – 2007

May 13, 2007

[…] to be certain you knew just where those boundaries were and who was inside them. Bookstores abound with resources for setting and keeping healthy boundaries. These books tell us when […]

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God’s Story, Our Story, Proper 19 (B) – 2015

September 13, 2015

On October 1, 1996 a book called The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks made its debut. Almost ten years later, on June 25, 2004, the movie adaptation came out with the story coming […]

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Bible Study: Epiphany 2 (B) – 2012

January 15, 2012

[…] Confession of Sin that we pray weekly at the Holy Eucharist. Read that confession ( Book of Common Prayer, p. 360) and reflect upon the following questions. What does it mean to love […]

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Easter Moves Around…, Easter Day (C) – 2007

April 08, 2007

[…] between March twenty-second and April twenty-fifth. There is, in fact, an entire section of the Book of Common Prayer devoted to finding the date of Easter Sunday in any given year. Read it […]

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Lenten Series: Week 5 Sacred Space for Debate

March 20, 2018

[…] the way, that we may know you in the scriptures, in the breaking of bread, and in the hearts of all whom we meet. Amen. (Saint Augustine’s Prayer Book, Forward Movement)

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Bible Study: Lent 2 (B) – 2012

March 4, 2012

[…] sake of the gospel, will save it. When reflecting on this lesson, I recall a book I read several years ago concerning a young priest, Father Jim. Father Jim was […]

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It Is a Wonder…, Proper 16 (C) – 2010

August 22, 2010

[…] Sabbath prohibition of work can be found in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5. In her book, Mudhouse Sabbath, Lauren Winner, an Orthodox Jewish convert to Christianity, mentions that: “Over time, […]

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Satisfaction, Proper 20 (A) – 2023

September 24, 2023

[…] That is exactly what our scriptures are about today. We have a passage from the Book of Exodus in which the Israelites are so unhappy and ungrateful that they actually […]

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Green and Growing, Proper 5 (C) – 2016

June 05, 2016

[…] are actions, through our words, and through our very being. The Practice of Prensence, is a book about Brother Lawrence, a Carmelite monk who lived in the 17th century. People are fascinated, […]

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Redefining “hybridization”

February 22, 2022

[…] by Omicron, for me “hybrid church” has come to mean “twice the work church.”   A book that’s helped me is called “The Gene: An Intimate History,” by Siddhartha Mukherjee.  Reading […]

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Text of presiding bishop's orientation address

July 29, 2003

[…] had come, by his own admission, to vote against the adoption of the new Prayer Book. You can imagine my surprise when, in the course of the Convention, he stood […]

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