Friday, June 29, 2012

Toward General Convention IV: The Anglican Covenant

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In 2006, as a Deputy from the Diocese of San Joaquin and a member of Special Legislative Committee 26 on Anglican Communion Relations, I par...
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Monday, June 25, 2012

Legislative Discipline

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(This is NOT the fourth in the promised series of four posts on major General Convention issues, but just some thoughts that came to me whil...
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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Toward General Convention III: Celebrating the Saints

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Resurrection is the fundamental datum of the Christian faith. The astonishing claim of the earliest Christian communities was that, because ...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2012

On Confirmation

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(Note: This is NOT part of my promised four-part series on General Convention issues. It's just lagniappe, as they say in Louisiana.) ...
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Thursday, June 14, 2012

Toward General Convention II: Marriage

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(This is the second in a series of four posts on major issues facing the 77th General Convention of the Episcopal Church.) In 2009, the 76...
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Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Resolution B009

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Here's one of my contributions to the General Convention workload. B009     Authorize Use of 1979 Lectionary  PROPOSER Martins, The...
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Monday, June 11, 2012

Toward General Convention: Polity

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I guess it's about time to start "thinking out loud" about next month's triennial General Convention of the Episcopal Chur...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

I Agree With the Presiding Bishop

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OK ... now that I have your attention... The Presiding Bishop spoke this afternoon to the regular triennial Synod of the Province of the M...
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Friday, March 30, 2012

On Christian Formation

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I was recently asked by a lay person who occupies a position of leadership in the diocese to share whatever I might on "Christian forma...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Part IV of Lenten Teaching Series

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Vocation and Spiritual Gifts: the Promise of Ministry
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

On Communion Without Baptism

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The Diocese of Eastern Oregon has introduced a resolution that would remove the Episcopal Church's canon that makes Holy Baptism a prere...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

House of Bishops, Day 5

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This was the final day of the House of Bishops meeting. We woke up to lightning, thunder, rain, and cooler temperatures--a marked change fro...
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Monday, March 19, 2012

House of Bishops, Day 4

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I'm not by nature a "morning person." But this being St Joseph's Day, and the first anniversary of my consecration, I got ...
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Sunday, March 18, 2012

Spring House of Bishops, Day 3

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Being the Lord's Day, the schedule was appropriately relaxed (in welcome contrast to Sundays in previous meetings). Eucharist was at 10,...
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Spring House of Bishops, Day 2

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Same morning routine as yesterday. The retreat-style meditation (in name only, it was actually a sermon) was by Michael Curry, Bishop of Nor...
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Friday, March 16, 2012

Spring House of Bishops, Day 1

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We're at Camp Allen, the outsize conference center owned and operated by the Diocese of Texas, about 60 miles northwest of Houston. Th...
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Patterns of Ministry: Part III

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The Icon of Ministry: Holy Orders
Friday, March 09, 2012

Part II of Lenten Teaching Series

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Patterns of Ministry: Baptism--The Mark of Ministry
Friday, March 02, 2012

Patterns of Ministry: What's In a Word?

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Session One of my Lenten teaching series in Alton Parish (St Paul's Church):

What's At Stake in the Anglican Covenant Debate

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A letter to the Church Times from to Church of England bishops: From the Bishops of Bristol and Oxford Sir, — As the majority of dioc...
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