Last Wednesday I spend the evening at church, being trained
in Safe Church practises. Safe Church is a program developed by the Episcopal Church to protect children from sexual predators, including but not limited to clergy and other staff. Continue reading
I have volunteered as a reader in the services at our church. I was assigned to read the Old Testament lesson at the 9:30 PM Christmas Eve Eucharist last night, Isaiah 9:2-7.
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Chicon Overview
mia_mcdavid and I spent the holiday weekend at Chicon 7 with our son James and carpe_noctum_93. We had a great time. I have some pictures up on Google.
Pentecost, May 27, 2012
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This past Sunday was Pentecost. At St. Mary’s,
as I have seen elsewhere, a tradition is to read one one of the lessons in multiple languages. I volunteered to read
in Irish. We read the Gospel, after our Deacon introduced it. The Irish translation is from An Bíobla Naofa.
Léigh tuilleadh
From
The Norway Massacre: Born of Ideology or Belief? via
From Arne Fjeldstad: Belief? Ideology? Faith?”
It is not required that you have a personal relationship with God or Jesus in order to fight for our Christian cultural heritage and the European way. In many ways, our modern societies and European secularism is a result of European Christendom and the enlightenment. It is therefore essential to understand the difference between a “Christian fundamentalist theocracy” (everything we do not want) and a secular European society based on our Christian cultural heritage (what we do want).
The European cultural heritage, our norms (moral codes and social structures included), our traditions and our modern political systems are based on Christianity – Protestantism, Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity and the legacy of the European enlightenment (reason is the primary source and legitimacy for authority).
Every year our church does a book drive does a book drive for the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The announcement for the 2011 drive was just posted on several bulletin boards around the building. mia_mcdavid was apparently the first person to take a good look at it. Whoever put it together was evidently in a hurry :-)>
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Today mia_mcdavid, carpe_noctum_93 and I went to the wedding of a friend from colgaffneyis. Thoughts on the ceremony
Episcopal Café‘s Onion-style link to Pope’s book on Jesus ‘edited out’ women
Lohan and Polanski: Where is justice in this?
Posed by my old friend, and classmate from both High School and College, Sister Edith Bogue.
St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, Minneapolis, Sunday, June 27, 2010. Across the street from Loring Park, where the Twin Cities Pride festival was taking place.
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