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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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Christian or Christ Follower?

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You are probably familiar with Apple's ad campaign wherein one character declares, "I'm a PC", and the others says, "...
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Friday, July 09, 2010

Theology Exam Questions

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OK, you have to be a bit of a geek in the area of academic theology to even get why some of these are funny, but if you are ...  most of the...
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Update on Mexico and the Covenant

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Apropos of the post immediately upstream from this one, do look here for some perceptive reflections on why it is "meet and right...
Sunday, July 04, 2010

Muchas Gracias, Mexico!

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When, in the wake of certain controversial decisions taken by the 2003 General Convention of the Episcopal Church, the ad hoc Lambeth Commi...
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Friday, June 25, 2010

Spelunking in the Hymnal 1940

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As is my wont on occasion, I spent some time this afternoon at the console of the “Mighty Rodgers” in St Anne’s Church playing through selec...
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