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PUTTING BACK TOGETHER A ONCE-SHATTERED WORLD
Take apart the word ‘remember’ and it literally means to put back together, to re – member. It implies that something is broken. It carries with it associations of gentleness, tenderness; that which...
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WHAT WE’VE HEARD ABOUT THE ROAD TO HELL, AND WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT THE WAY OF LIFE
The timing couldn’t be better. In 1 Kings 3, Solomon ascends Israel’s throne after his father, David. He goes to worship the Lord and asks for wisdom, for the gift to discern between what is right...
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STREAMS TO REFRESH AND GLADDEN
Born in 1775 and consecrated Assistant Bishop of New York at the age of 36, John Henry Hobart’s life and ministry offers something of a model for our time. Without him, who knows what would have...
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BELIEVING THINGS, PUBLICLY
I’m tired of political partisanship and really sick and tired of the way the nasty game called politics has taken over our discourse today. Military deployed and foreign service workers are facing...
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MAKING YOUR LIFE DEEPER, THE GIFTS OF A FAITH-BASED COMMUNITY
Almost one hundred years ago, an Episcopal bishop in Wisconsin noted his “strong antagonism to proselytism.” “Men want to get others to join their side, their party, their church,” he wrote in 1914,...
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BOTH RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL
I am a religious Christian. It’s not so cool, today, to say you’re religious. It’s much more trendy to call yourself ‘spiritual but not religious’. But let me make a claim for religion, and I gather...
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TO PRESENT THE WHOLE OF OUR LIVES, SAYING ‘THANK YOU’ AS WELL AS ‘HEAL US’
It’s only been two weeks since Election Day, although it feels to me like much longer ago, so quickly have I put it out of my mind. This has been a particularly bruising time in our country. The...
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QUANTUM INCARNATION
One of my favorite classes in high school was physics. To be honest, I didn’t do well in the class; I earned a lowly C-. Nevertheless, I’m intrigued by the ideas of physics, principally the idea that...
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LITURGICAL RENEWAL AND THE BLAME GAME
I really don’t get it. Every weekend, leading up to and following Sunday morning worship celebrations, I see a sufficient spattering of good news and joy across the Episcopal Church. Well, let me...
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THOSE WHO GET WISDOM OBTAIN FRIENDSHIP WITH GOD
“I prayed, and understanding was given me; All good things came to me along with her. I learned without guile and I impart without grudging. It is an unfailing treasure for mortals; those who get it...
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