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Jubilee Morning Meditation

May 21, 2012

Leviticus 25:8-12 Luke 4:16-30 Note: Bishop Griswold’s meditation was not delivered from a printed text. The following is the transcription of an audio tape. What I’d like to do with you now is share some thoughts that I hope will stimulate your own reflection, and invite you, through those thoughts, to enter personally at a […]

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God’s Ongoing and Enduring Drama of Love and Adventure, Ascension Day – 2012

May 17, 2012

They say that the sequel is never the equal. The movie that comes after the original to expand the story never lives up to the first one. And it is even worse in movies that come in threes; trilogies are the worst. Take the “Star Wars” movies, for example – the original “Star Wars” movies, […]

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The Episcopal Church's opportunity: A Church for the 21st Century

May 7, 2012

  Who are we, and who is here?  I would invite you to reflect for a moment and remember what God has been saying to you for a very long time:  you are my beloved, and in you I am well pleased.  That is our primary identity – beloved siblings, created in the image of […]

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Bible Study: Lent 2 (B) – 2012

March 4, 2012

Genesis 17:1-7, 15-16 All of the readings for today have a common theme of faith: God’s faithfulness to us and our response. Psalm 22:22-30 This psalm actually begins in lament with the familiar: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Then, it moves to today’s portion, which includes praise, worship, and finally a […]

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Bow at the Name of Jesus, Holy Name Day – 2012

January 02, 2012

We know very little about Jesus’ childhood. There is nothing in Mark or John. From Matthew, we learn that an angel told Joseph to name Mary’s child “Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” This, he reports, they did, and then he relates the account of the Wisemen’s visitation, followed by the […]

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Today Is Remembrance Sunday…, Proper 28 (A) – 2011

November 13, 2011

Today is Remembrance Sunday – the Sunday closest to November eleventh – the day World War I ended nearly a hundred years ago at the “eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month” of 1918. In the United Kingdom and in many Commonwealth countries, Remembrance Sunday is kept with great solemnity as an […]

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Beauty and Power, Truth and Good: A 21st Century Quest for the Real

June 1, 2011

1 June 2011 Stanford University The Most Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori Presiding Bishop and Primate The Episcopal Church I’m going to start with a religious question – why are we here? I don’t think we’re here looking for exactly what some of my classmates sought nearly 40 years ago. Once in a while when the […]

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House of Bishops Daily Account for Sunday, March 27, 2011

March 27, 2011

The House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church is meeting at the Kanuga Conference Center in North Carolina from March 25 to March 30. The following is an account of the activities for Sunday, March 27. Following a day of Sabbath, the House of Bishops gathered for a Moravian Service of Holy Communion in the […]

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Cyril and Methodius 2011

February 12, 2011

Last year I heard about a parishioner in West Virginia who kept on complaining about this prayer book we still call new. He was really angry about it, even decades after it had turned up in his church – so much so that he attached a chain to his 1928 prayer book and fixed the […]

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Episcopal Bishop Steven Miller addresses "strength of full communion" at festive service with The Moravian Church in North America

February 11, 2011

In his sermon at the February 10 festive service of full communion between the Episcopal Church and the Northern and Southern Provinces of the Moravian Church in North America, Bishop Steven Miller of the Episcopal Diocese of Milwaukee addressed the meaning of this relationship, and its possibilities for the future. “We know that the strength […]

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The Presiding Bishops Preaches at Conclusion of St. James' Bicentennial Celebration

November 14, 2010

Three weeks ago, Immanuel Chapel at Virginia Theological Seminary burned. It has heard countless prayers and student sermons since it was built almost 130 years ago. Last Thursday, St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Houma, Louisiana, also burned. Although the parish was founded in 1855, the building that burned was finished in 1892. This congregation of […]

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A rousing call to action from one of the nation's foremost religious leaders

November 2, 2010

Immigration, environmental concerns and lack of proper medical care are just three major issues faced by people around the world each day. Whose job is it to fix these problems? Can communities of faith sit idly by and wait for governments to address the crises threatening society, or is it up to individuals to provide […]

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A Year Ago…, All Saints’ Day (C) – 2010

November 01, 2010

A year ago a young hotel clerk showed up at an All Saints’ Day service. He told the priest as he left that it was the one day he felt obligated to be in church. “I never miss All Saints’ Day,” he said. True to his word, he hasn’t been back since. The Feast of […]

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Even Listening Attentively…, Proper 22 (C) – 2010

October 03, 2010

Even listening attentively to Paul’s second letter to Timothy, we are probably not going to want to go the distance with Paul when he invites Timothy to “join with me in suffering for the gospel … relying on the power of God.” It’s really easy to hear “Join with me in suffering” and then just […]

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It Is a Wonder…, Proper 16 (C) – 2010

August 22, 2010

It is a wonder, why, in their infinite wisdom, the compilers of the Revised Common Lectionary chose to begin this week’s epistle where they did. The syntax and cadence are difficult enough, without even beginning to look at the content and context thereof. The reading seems to drop right into the middle of an ongoing […]

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