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Friday Five: Trash, Treasure or Tea?
The Friday Five is up again. This one I couldn't pass by. It is far to close to home. Muthah+Posted onMay 23, 2014byDebThis is a corner of my garage: This weekend, our church is have a “Rummage Sale...
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Friday Five: Priesthood
Friday Five: PriesthoodPosted onMay 30, 2014bymarybethbutlerI’ve just finished a great little book by L. William Countryman called Living on the Border of the Holy: Renewing the Priesthood of...
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Two Sparrows
This was written by my friend and Presbyterian colleague, Andrew Stehlek. Two Sparrows Please meet my friends Chirp and Tweet. In Spring 2009, when we still lived in upstate, this couple of House...
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Post Hack: Church in the 21st Century
It has been some time since I have blogged. I was badly hacked in early June. Of course I changed my password, and was hacked again. I changed password again and was hacked again. This happened so...
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...and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
How many of you have read the book of Genesis? If you haven’t, may I suggest that sometime this week you get out the first book of the Bible and read Chapters 37-50. It will make these Old Testament...
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Ferguson, Jon Daniels, Uppity Women and Mercy
I had another sermon all developed to preach this Sunday but the events of the past week have focused the nation’s attention to the events between police and the people of a St. Louis, MO suburb. I...
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Outer Darkness--Beyond the Pale
I am an avid genealogist and have been since high school. And while I don’t at present have a membership with Ancestry.com I have been able to trace our family back to the mid-17th century in England...
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'Where God and Man have sat down'
What is appealing about sermons? Today I have listened to 3 or 4 of them. Now that I am retired I don’t have the weekly responsibility of preparing sermons. I generally enjoyed the process of...
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Of Bishops, Clergy, Discrimination and Accountablity
I am grateful for this letter from Gay Clark Jennings, the President of the House of Deputies. This is an incidence that has made me heartsick all the way around. I do not know +Cook, but I grieve...
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Marriage, Covenant and Holy Week
This isn't the normal article one would usually find during Holy Week on this blog. Because of J's fall and broken neck in January and the weeks in rehab and therapy, we chose not to observe Lent...
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Walking on the Dark Side
I have just finished Barbara Brown Taylor’s Learning to Walk in the Dark, a beautifully written bookthat at the same time heals and scares the heck out of me. I believe that it is meant to do that....
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Behold, I make all things new!--a preparation for the 78th General Convention
Today I commented on a national church site on which I spoke to the area of TX in which I now live. After spending 43 years living outside of TX, and now have returned ostensibly to help our diocese...
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Touching the tassels: Sermon for June 28
Mark 5:21-43It feels good to be back in the pulpit here at St. Martins. For those who have known me to preach extemporaneously, I have finally come to that place in life when I am beginning to lose...
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Martyrdom--what does it mean?
As I prepare to go on the Jonathan Daniels' 50th anniversary pilgrimage, I am pondering what martyrdom means. Throughout the history of Christianity we have had those who have 'died for their faith'...
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The Selma Tales: Impressions following the Jonathan Daniel's 50th Anniversary...
I had planned to write an ongoing series of blog posts while on pilgrimage to mark the 50th anniversary of Jon's death in Hayneville, AL. It just wasn't possible, primarily due to fatigue. Walking,...
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The Selma Tales: Civil Rights Institute, Birmingham, AL II
After meeting our fellow pilgrims on Wed. evening and some guided discussion, Thurs. morning we all went to the Civil Rights Institute in Birmingham. There was a instructional exhibit for those who...
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Is it not the rich who oppress you?
Has not God chosen the poor in the world to be rich in faith and to be heirs of the kingdom that he has promised to those who love him? But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress...
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The Selma Tales: Montgomery and Selma III
On the way to Selma we went through Montgomery. One of our pilgrims, Richard Morrisroe, the former Roman Catholic priest who was shot with Jonathan Daniels in Hayneville, took the bus microphone and...
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Of Truth, Witnesses to History and Windows 10
I have a new computer with Windows 10. I can't quite tell if the problems with Windows 10 are a part of the program or the fact that the new HP has a touch pad that I can't turn off. But so far I...
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Martin of Tours and St. Martin in the Fields: A Patronal Feast
The patronal feast is always a special date for every congregation. I tried to find out how we got named St. Martin’s in the Field and so far haven’t found out. (As we come close to our...
View ArticleNew Year, New Head, a New Life
This is the first time I have tried to write since I went down with a brain tumor on the 9th of December. The surgery was on the 14th and for a few days I couldn't even speak following what the...
View ArticleAnglican Communion, The Episcopal Church: What we are and what we are not.
I have been trying to figure out how to respond both what has been happening to the Anglican Communion, what is happening in my own diocese and what has been happening in my life. I have been in the...
View ArticleAnd Why Did We March?
This is something I wrote back in August while coming home from the commemorations of Jon Daniel's life and the events of Selma. But it was not so much about Jon as it was about what has happened in...
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Church History, New Church and JesusA couple of years ago I had read Diarmaid MacColloch’s Christianity, The First 3,000 Years. I had taught church history since the 70’s but it was a limited idea of...
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