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    • Weekend RoundupWeekend RoundupFebruary 23, 2019Stories you might have missed from around the Anglican/Episcopal world...
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    • Faith and a CommaFaith and a CommaFebruary 23, 2019“Faith is doing what may not be the most natural thing but is the right thing. It is the letting go of my personal will and putting it in God’s hands while still using the intellect and reasoning ability that God gave me at my birth to do what is right and what I should be doing.”...
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      • United Methodists Discern “A Way Forward”
        United Methodists Discern “A Way Forward”A special session of the United Methodist Church’s General Conference is meeting in St. Louis this week which will determine the future of the denomination. From the Washington Post: A schism, the splitting of a church over irreconcilable differences, has sometimes seemed imminent. Yet in an extraordinary meeting of church leaders in St. Louis that begins Saturday, the 12 million-member denomination will try to reach a plan to hold their church together while also deciding the church’s stance […]...
      • Opinion: Invite all or none
        Opinion: Invite all or noneA response to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s widely-panned choice to not invite spouses of LGBT+ bishops to Lambeth in 2020...
      • President Jennings on the exclusion of same-sex spouses from the Lambeth Conference
        President Jennings on the exclusion of same-sex spouses from the Lambeth Conference“the Anglican Communion Office has created a public situation in which two children are learning that the hierarchy of the church considers their family to be a source of shame and worthy of exclusion. … When little children are collateral damage, that is not the way of love.”...
      • Two congregations, two faiths, six years of Muslim-Episcopal friendship
        Two congregations, two faiths, six years of Muslim-Episcopal friendship“I like to think it was the hand of God that brought us together.” -The Rev. William Mahoney...
      • Episcopal churches host concerts reinterpreting ancient stories in the #metoo era
        Episcopal churches host concerts reinterpreting ancient stories in the #metoo eraCleveland Scene describes Burning River Baroque’s The Other Side of the Story: Untold Perspectives on Familiar Tales as “a program that takes on the issues of ‘toxic masculinity’.”...

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    Podcasts

    • PodcastsFebruary 18, 2019
      Faith to Go: Radical EqualityHow do talk about Jesus’ vision of radical equality?... Read more...
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      2FAB #136: Hebrews 7-13Luci and Jordan delve into the High Priesthood of Christ... Read more...
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      Subversive Undercroft #83Thy presence my light... Read more...
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      All Things Rite and Musical #35Expansive Language Eucharistic Prayers  ... Read more...
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    • Speaking to the SoulFebruary 23, 2019
      Faith and a Comma“Faith is doing what may not be the most natural thing but is the right thing. It is the letting go of my personal will and putting it in God’s hands while still using the intellect and reasoning ability that God gave me at my birth to do what is right and what I should be doing.”... Read more...
    • Speaking to the SoulFebruary 21, 2019
      Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s“We are, in fact, little icons of God, carrying the image of the Creator stamped on our souls.  Each of us wondrous, complex, mystifying humans points in our very nature to the author of the cosmos.”... Read more...
    • Speaking to the SoulFebruary 20, 2019
      The Eucharistically Shaped Life“Each time we gather for communion, we offer our gifts, which are then taken onto the altar—mundane, simple things like bread and wine, yes, but also we offer what we value—our monetary offerings and offerings of our selves: our time and our talents for the common good. Those offerings are then blessed, consecrated, made holy through the power of the Spirit to help empower us as disciples, both individually and as a community. Those gifts are then broken open—barriers and boundaries fall, so that true sharing can take place. And then those gifts are given back, yet somehow enlarged, made greater than their constituent parts.”... Read more...
    • Speaking to the SoulFebruary 19, 2019
      Welcome“Yes, there are words that hurt, especially when heard in the context of church and worship, but similarly there are words that speak God’s grace. It takes practice and forgiveness over and over again to be a church and a people who can speak words of love to everyone who enters.”... Read more...
    • Speaking to the SoulFebruary 18, 2019
      Martin Luther and Forgiveness: a Question of Christian Ethics“Always the teacher, he wrote catechisms and books at a prodigious rate, trying to spread the Gospel through knowledge and understanding, but primarily through knowing Christ from the Gospels. His translation of Scripture into German, and beautiful German, may I add, was groundbreaking in that now the common person could read and meditate on the actual words.”... Read more...
    • Speaking to the SoulFebruary 17, 2019
      Walking the Walk“As an adult I realized that the ritual of confession does more than wipe my slate clean for the week. It, and the entire communion service, serve to remind us of the things Jesus asks us to do in our daily life.”... Read more...
    • Speaking to the SoulFebruary 16, 2019
      Using I“One of the disciplines or practices on which we’ve been working hard for the last few years is the use of the “I” statements.  “I” statements are used to indicate our personal beliefs, thoughts, opinions, and positions, as opposed to “we” statements which lump us in with others who may or may not share our thoughts and beliefs.”... Read more...
    • Speaking to the SoulFebruary 15, 2019
      Bright and Shiny in the Land of Dirty and Messy“So many times, we enter the mission field with the idea that we are somehow the bearers of bright and shiny–only to discover a world of dirty and messy, a world that seems impossible to fix.”... Read more...
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    • Featured Story / The LeadFebruary 23, 2019
      Weekend RoundupStories you might have missed from around the Anglican/Episcopal world... Read more...
    • Recent Stories / The LeadFebruary 22, 2019
      United Methodists Discern “A Way Forward”A special session of the United Methodist Church’s General Conference is meeting in St. Louis this week which will determine the future of the denomination. From the Washington Post: A schism, the splitting of a church over irreconcilable differences, has sometimes seemed imminent. Yet in an extraordinary meeting of church leaders in St. Louis that begins Saturday, the 12 million-member denomination will try to reach a plan to hold their church together while also deciding the church’s stance […]... Read more...
    • Recent Stories / The LeadFebruary 22, 2019
      Opinion: Invite all or noneA response to the Archbishop of Canterbury’s widely-panned choice to not invite spouses of LGBT+ bishops to Lambeth in 2020... Read more...
    • Recent Stories / The LeadFebruary 21, 2019
      President Jennings on the exclusion of same-sex spouses from the Lambeth Conference“the Anglican Communion Office has created a public situation in which two children are learning that the hierarchy of the church considers their family to be a source of shame and worthy of exclusion. … When little children are collateral damage, that is not the way of love.”... Read more...
    • Recent Stories / The LeadFebruary 20, 2019
      Two congregations, two faiths, six years of Muslim-Episcopal friendship“I like to think it was the hand of God that brought us together.” -The Rev. William Mahoney... Read more...
    • Recent Stories / The LeadFebruary 19, 2019
      Episcopal churches host concerts reinterpreting ancient stories in the #metoo eraCleveland Scene describes Burning River Baroque’s The Other Side of the Story: Untold Perspectives on Familiar Tales as “a program that takes on the issues of ‘toxic masculinity’.”... Read more...
    • Recent Stories / The LeadFebruary 15, 2019
      Lambeth 2020 UpdatePlanning for the next Lambeth Conference, to be held in 2020 at the University of Kent in Canterbury, is well under way. Dr. Josiah Idowu-Fearon, the Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, shared some of his thoughts about it in a new blog post over at ACNS. He writes, As I travel around the Communion, it has been encouraging to see the level of excitement and enthusiasm growing about next year’s Lambeth Conference. The Conference team has now received […]... Read more...
    • Recent Stories / The LeadFebruary 14, 2019
      Texas Supreme Court considering review of Fort Worth property caseThe Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth shared the following statement on their website this past week: On Friday, February 8, 2019, the Texas Supreme Court said it would like to consider briefing on the merits before deciding whether to take up the breakaways parties’ petition for review of the Fort Worth Court of Appeals April 2018 opinion in favor of the loyal Episcopalians of the Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth and our conditional cross-petition for review. The conditional cross-petition asserted additional […]... Read more...
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    • Featured Story / The MagazineFebruary 17, 2019
      Being a Trustworthy Church in an Age of #Churchtooone truth is becoming increasingly clear, which is that sexual abuse is endemic in society as a whole. No denomination, church, or organization can safely conclude that it has effectively addressed sexual abuse. Nor is any church immune from the effects of sexual abuse... Read more...
    • Featured Story / The MagazineFebruary 10, 2019
      Daily Sip: In the deep dark forestIt is in the wildernesses of our lives that we need silence and yet…... Read more...
    • Recent Stories / The MagazineFebruary 3, 2019
      Drive LovinglyWe can’t build our way out of our daily frustrations and annoyances, but perhaps we can build up within ourselves a capacity for grace... Read more...
    • Recent Stories / The MagazineFebruary 3, 2019
      Lectio Terrestria: Reading in the Cathedral of the Earth.Reflective verse from Charles LaFond... Read more...
    • The Lead / The MagazineFebruary 2, 2019
      Reconciliation in the MidlandsEighteenth century remains from a dissenters graveyard unearthed during construction in the English city of Wolverhampton were recently re-interred in a moving service at St John’s Church adapted from the 1662 BCP... Read more...
    • The MagazineJanuary 27, 2019
      ImperfectionOur imperfections make us gorgeous... Read more...
    • Recent Stories / The MagazineJanuary 20, 2019
      Four PoemsFour poems from Indian poet, Sanjeev Sethi... Read more...
    • Recent Stories / The MagazineJanuary 20, 2019
      Daily Sip: DefianceI am trying so very hard to live out this statement – to not mind what happens to me.  Some days hold more successes than others. ... Read more...
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