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    Pauli Murray’s house declared a national historic landmark

    January 17, 2017 / 0 Comments

    The former home of Pauli Murray, activist, advocate, and Episcopal priest has been designated a national historic landmark.

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    Speaking to the Soul: Rising and Falling

    January 17, 2017 / 0 Comments

    by Kimberly Knowle-Zeller   From the rising of the sun to its setting my Name shall be great among the nations,…

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    After nine year journey the Reformed Church in America ordains the first openly gay man

    January 16, 2017 / 2 Comments

    The Revd Chad Tanaka Pack shares his own story of the long road to ordination as a minister of word & sacrament in the Reformed Church in America.

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    Bishop of Vermont prays for peace and reconciliation

    January 16, 2017 / 5 Comments

    In a statement released Friday, Rt. Rev. Thomas C. Ely addressed the upcoming inauguration of President-elect Trump.

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    Speaking to the Soul: ‘Friending’ like Jesus

    January 16, 2017 / 1 Comments

    In a world where friends are made and lost with the click of the mouse, what is the purpose of friendship? Jesus demonstrates care in choosing friends to help him strive towards a beloved community.

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    From the Daily Sip: Ambition

    January 15, 2017 / 1 Comments

    Vocation is something so different from ambition. Vocation is honest. It is a path while ambition is the bulldozer on the front end of a road to power.

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  • 2 FAB #27: Numbers 26 & 27

    January 15, 2017 / 0 Comments

    Luci and Jordan continue their feminist journey through the Bible with Jordan’s favorite story in Numbers (her favorite way to get poked in the eye?), the daughters of Zelophehad

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  • Point of View: Inaugural Prayer: Throwing Away Our Shot

    January 15, 2017 / 27 Comments

    The Rev Janet Vincent offer her perspective on the controversy surrounding the participation of a National Cathedral choir in the upcoming presidential election based on her own experience of negotiating with Donald Trump

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    A radical Way of being

    January 15, 2017 / 0 Comments

    Christians are called to a Radical Faith. Christians, when they live as though their baptisms matter, are radicals. Jesus was a radical. A radical is one who advocates and works for fundamental or revolutionary changes in current practices, conditions.

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    Remember your baptism!

    January 15, 2017 / 12 Comments

    During his annual visit to our church today, the bishop will baptize Evanna. She’s a tall, somewhat plump transgender woman around age twenty… Our church has one other trans member, my sixteen-year-old son, Max… This is a safe place, yet instinctively I watch people’s reactions toward LGBTQ people. I look out for Evanna as if she were my own child.

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    Speaking to the Soul: Get Ready

    January 15, 2017 / 2 Comments

    The forces of evil will have won if we become so involved in what has been done to us, or what might happen in the future, that we forget how to be joyful servants in God’s kingdom today.

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    UPDATE – Trump doesn’t want preaching at the prayer service

    January 14, 2017 / 71 Comments

    In an article in yesterday’s Washington Post, Bishop Budde was quoted as stating that Donald Trump had requested that there be no preaching at the service.

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    The Anglican Communion’s oldest primate dies quietly in his sleep

    January 14, 2017 / 0 Comments

    The Most Revd Brown Turei was 92 years old. He was one of the three three Archbishops & Primates in the Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand & Polynesia an Anglican Church of three cultural streams (tikanga.) Archbishop Turei represented the Maori tikanga of the ACANZ&P.

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    Canadian Primate offers prayers for the USA

    January 14, 2017 / 2 Comments

    The Most Revd Fred Hiltz, Primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, has called his Anglican flock to unite in prayer for all of the people of the United States of America.

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    Speaking to the Soul: The measure of a man…

    January 14, 2017 / 4 Comments

    The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. — Martin Luther King Jr.

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