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Harry Potter Life Lesson #2
The illusion of control. **(no particular spoilers–if you’ve been not-living-under-a-rock the last decade, you’ll learn nothing new here to spoil the plot of the HP franchise) As the series develops...
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Who is my family?
(Cathedral of St. Mary, St. Cloud, Minnesota) All of my genes come from one county in central Minnesota. Spending time there as a girl with my father’s family, seeing my paternal family name on...
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“work/life balance” versus energy-giving/energy-sapping
In the last few months, I’ve start to run into articles challenging this pervasive idea of a “work/life balance.” The work/life balance idea is that our lives generally don’t fit into neat 9-to-5...
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Grey’s Anatomy & Jesus
I’ve found my true calling: recognizing (“rationalizing”?) the echoes and underpinnings of the Christian message in popular television. It’s a difficult job–watching lots of television and searching...
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God Keeps His Promises (full stop).
A homily on Genesis 16:1-16 Sarai’s getting old. She’s getting worried. God has just made a promise to Abram, but there’s got to be some kind of work-around. In chapter 15 of Genesis, God makes a...
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holy week
this week brings ordination to the priesthood for two of my dearest friends, a ZTA soul-sister, and my husband. Last night, Kara Slade was ordained in Oxford, NC. The sermon from the service can be...
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logs & specs (& yoga)
Two weeks ago, I bought new glasses (!). After a five-year hiatus from the world of fashion specs, I was eager to try something funky–wearing contacts on a daily basis means that your glasses can be a...
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Circumstances Are Just Circumstantial
I may have preached this morning on excuses as obstacles that we put up to avoid facing the real change to which Jesus calls us.* However, I really think these shoes will make me a better Christian...
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A Novel Leader: Is Francis New News?
(via Photograph: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters) Excerpts from a Guardian article on the Pope: “‘A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another...
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Psalm 131 Mash Up
Hebrews 12:1-2 “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race...
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Bended Knees – On Which To Chew
Reading Screwtape Letters* for the first time in perhaps 10 years; how salient it continues to be decades after its release is a testament to the un-changing-ness of human nature, the problems, vices,...
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Being Present – On Which to Chew
“The humans live in time but our Enemy destines them for eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time which they call...
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holding breath
There’s a reason that holding your breath kills you. Out in the garden over the weekend, I filled up boxes with compost-y soil. It was hard work, but that was just what I needed–I’d been too static...
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giving growth
Seeds are such mysterious things. Here in South Carolina, it’s already time to start planting the hardier stuff–greens, roots, some herbs, so I took advantage of the sunny, warm days over the weekend...
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NBC’s Parenthood. and Jesus.
Shouldn’t we all live in Berkley, California? Watching last week’s episode, as the four adult siblings gather to support one of their ranks who’s found herself unexpectedly alone, I felt a twinge–my...
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Prayer for Lent
“O God! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell, and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I worship You for Your Own sake, grudge me not Your … Continue...
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Finding Jesus, or just Seeing Things?
Last month, Jesus bought me a latte. A few days ago, I saw Jesus’ eyes. Did you know that Jesus is still around? Or is it that my brain turns certain moments over in my head, and soon enough,...
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A Strange Thing Happened at Trinity Cathedral
A poem inspired by several independent experiences of Ash Wednesday at Trinity this year, shared with me over the course of the week: As we prepped for Lent, we were all very clever, We had last...
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How I Became Episcopalian, Part 2
There’s an Episcopalian joke I like to tell: some parishioners went to their rector and said, “Father, we want to do a Bible study. What book should we start with?” Their rector, taken aback, but...
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Quotation of the Day – Henri Nouwen
“The various disciplines of the spiritual life are meant for freedom and are reliable means for the creation of helpful boundaries in our lives within which God’s voice can be heard, God’s presence...
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