Although we cannot hear ourselves sounding through we are nevertheless sounding through to each other. This implies that our real gifts only become known to us when they are recognized and affirmed by those who receive them.”
Clowning in Rome
Henri Nouwen
“The word “person” comes from person-are which means “sounding through.” Our vocation in life is to be and increasingly become persons who “sound through” to each other a greater reality than we ourselves fully know …
I liked several months ago when we came across the “women remain silent” passages, Kate Moorehead-Carol in her Office devotional said, “The lectionary slips over those verses today. Well don’t want to. Let’s talk about them.”
PS. I don’t think the way to do Bible reading is to shy away from the uncomfortable verses. You can’t have an intelligent and investigative discussion about something if you’re not willing to admit/or are fully aware of what is there.
*loosely* the 1979 Office lectionary skipping over 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 today
I can’t help but notice how evident the lines between the maximalist social left and the reformist social left these last days have been
O God, the Father of all, whose Son commanded us to love our enemies: Lead them and us from prejudice to truth: deliver them and us from hatred, cruelty, and revenge; and in your good time enable us all to stand reconciled before you, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
You know, it’s too bad the ‘79 Office Lectionary doesn’t include James ch. 1 during Proper 17, during which we ask the “the author and giver of all good things” to “increase in us true religion.”
Dear friends, I am going on a couple self retreats - first tomorrow then again in September. I’d appreciate your prayers and any advice you’d have for me.
I don’t know how anyone can read without a pencil.
death and resurrection... with them, the black men and white men, with all life, in him whose Name is above all the names that the races and nations shout... We are indelibly and unspeakably one."
Jonathan Myrick Daniels
"The doctrine of the creeds, the enacted faith of the sacraments, were the essential preconditions of the experience itself. The faith with which I went to Selma has not changed: it has grown.. I began to know in my bones and sinews that I had been truly baptized into the Lord's
My letter to the Presiding Bishop. Let me know any thoughts if you have the chance. open.substack.com/pub/lukeamaz...
Augustine thought about this it appears
or does it imply an eventual end of an era, implying the king described by the Psalmist bound by the creation to some extent?
Could the Gospel reading be seen as an expansion of the prophetic description of the Messiah?
Sitting in the tension of the Office Gospel reading of Jesus’ spiritual authority above the elements of creation: physical lack, over the weather, and sickness—alongside Psalm 72 “He shall live as long as the sun and moon endure.” Is the endurance of the moon or sun a poetic symbol of eternity or
Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices.
-- St. Teresa of Avila
Here’s a piece I wrote on finding faith & spirituality after deconstruction. Big thank you to @earthandaltarmag.com for my first online publication. Thank you, @anachronistben.bsky.social, for the opportunity and your insightful editing. earthandaltarmag.com/posts/v29jyh...
Tasted God’s everlasting grace this morning at church. Thanks be to God! Happy Sunday!
other hand, attaching man to God by His own incarnation, and bestowing upon us at His coming immortality durably and truly, by means of communion with God — all the doctrines of the heretics fall to ruin.
St. Irenaeus
Since the Lord thus has redeemed us through His own blood, giving His soul for our souls, and His flesh for our flesh, and has also poured out the Spirit of the Father for the union and communion of God and man, imparting indeed God to men by means of the Spirit, and, on the
#MorningPrayer on Long Beach Island, NJ
Glorify the Lord, O mountains and hills,
and all that grows upon the earth,
praise him and highly exalt him for ever.
…
All birds of the air, glorify the Lord, *
praise him and highly exalt him for ever.
I’m sorry for the way the church has hurt you 💔
A simplistic take of a thorough and evidence-citing piece. I agree with Vines that critiquing the movement or strategy in an effort for progress is not the same thing as being anti-LGBTQ. I suppose we see it differently and I respect your right to. I hope you offer the same in return
“When you position yourself against social norms simply because they are norms,…, and when you relentlessly push the envelope for the sake of shock value, you are asking for a backlash.”
A worthwhile read by Matthew Vines
“We desperately need to recover our ability to make real progress again. But getting there will require… [a] return to the appeal to common humanity that once made it so successful.
…it would indeed be something to be proud of.”
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I miss her
#RachelHeldEvans
Sometimes I have a hard time bridging my gay Episcopal niche with my career in performing arts but thanks to theology nerd assistant stage managers, I have the encouragement I need for my posh British hotel manager scene 🤣
in our worship of you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; ever one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
