Wednesday, March 30, 2011

It's All Local Now

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Yesterday the House of Bishop's spent the morning considering the proposed Anglican Covenant (there's a link to the text on the righ...
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Saturday, March 26, 2011

On Young Adults

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Disclaimer: I'm a Baby Boomer. Most members of my generation haven't yet figured out that we're NOT young adults anymore. But th...
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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Rookie Appearance

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Tomorrow morning, the FAA permitting, I will fly to the Asheville, NC area (Kanuga, a conference center) for my first meeting of the House o...
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Monday, March 21, 2011

Being What I Do, Doing What I Am

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Here's the holy huddle from last Saturday. Take my word for it; I'm in there somewhere. The day was utterly joyful and completely...
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Sunday, December 19, 2010

Lessons & Carols Text Notes

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We're doing Lessons & Carols tonight at St Anne's. My lovely and talented Dragonfly is the director. The texts and music are sub...
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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Feedback (or...An Evangelical Walks into a Nave)

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Not long ago I preached a Sunday sermon about one of the techniques I have found useful for keeping my own liturgical spirituality fresh, wh...
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Wednesday, November 03, 2010

A Welcome Word

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I received the following this morning. Most of the members of CLSD probably differ from my position on some the core theological and ethical...
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Monday, November 01, 2010

Consent

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Almost since the day of my election as Eleventh Bishop of Springfield, there have been rumors that some folks in my former diocese (San Joaq...
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Sunday, September 19, 2010

Life is Changed, Not Ended

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OK, that's a quote from the funeral liturgy, so it's kind of ripped out of context. I have not died. But, metaphorically, there has ...
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Saturday, September 18, 2010

A Prayer For Today

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Marcel Dupre improvising on Veni Creator Spiritus on the organ of St Sulpice, Paris. The Dragonfly and I visited this place in 2005, and ...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

A Friday Afternoon Sentiment

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"Since from his bounty I receive such proofs of love divine, Had I a thousand tongues to give, Lord, they should all be thine."...
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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Out of the Mouths of Babes...

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One of my parishioners posted this as her Facebook status this afternoon: So, M...'s been sick for a couple weeks, and I haven't le...
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Sunday, September 05, 2010

Thy Will Be Done

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My parents-in-law, for as long as I can remember them inhabiting a home together, had a wall plaque that quoted (paraphrased, actually) I Ti...
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

Eucharist: An Anniversary Love Poem

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Sometime tomorrow afternoon, Brenda and I will have been married 38 years. "Growing old together" is no longer an abstraction, but...
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Singing Hopefully

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What follows is cross-posted from my parish’s website and newsletter, where I maintain a monthly reflection on one of the hymns we will be s...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Lost in Translation

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I've been doing a good bit of reading and reflecting lately on poverty, particularly poverty that is not situational (i.e. middle class ...
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Friday, August 13, 2010

Another Nugget from the Hymnal 1940

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If you stop by here from time to time, you know that I like to dig around once in awhile in the detritus of the Hymnal 1940—items that were ...
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Tuesday, August 10, 2010

An Alternative Collect for the Feast of St Laurence

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To appreciate this, you have to a) know something about how St Laurence left this world, and b) have a secure sense of humor, slightly twis...
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Monday, August 09, 2010

Guaranteed Agony

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The Diocese of Springfield (Illinois) will be electing its eleventh bishop on September 18. Two days ago, I learned that my name will be amo...
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Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Quotable and Ponderable...

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... though I can't precisely say why. It's just an intuition. I'm about to make the turn from the "at home" portion ...
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