Long-time parishioner and tireless sustainable living advocate, Carolyn Lief, was awarded the “Bishop’s Service Ministry Award” at the 2011 Diocesan Convention this past weekend. Congratulations to Carolyn! The following is the official commendation that accompanied the award: When Carolyn was a young girl, her father, Irving (who was a Farm Advisor for the University of … READ MORE…
At the forum on 1.30.11, Pastoral Counselor Brooke McGillis of the Cathedral Center for Pastoral Counseling Center discussed dealing with unexpected change. When thinking about unexpected change I think immediately about the artistic process that includes the “happy accident.” I am an artist and have struggled to know when a work is “done.” As an … READ MORE…
“Free is good,” says the IRS in a television advertisement for its online tax-preparation service, Tax Act, available to single and married taxpayers with no dependents filing Form 1040 EZ or Form 1040A for single and married taxpayers with dependents and who may claim certain tax credits but do not itemize deductions.. If you are … READ MORE…
From CNN: The White House announced a dozen appointments to its faith advisory council on Friday, with the leader of the nation’s largest evangelical group and the head of the nation’s leading Christian denomination serving lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people are both on the list. National Association of Evangelicals President Leif Anderson and Nancy … READ MORE…
The Episco-blogs are talking about a column in the British newspaper The Guardian, in which theologian Theo Hobson describes an Epiphany of sorts. Frustrated with the glacial movement of the Church of England towards modernization, he longed for an active, vibrant faith. Organised religion was intolerably illiberal, but only organised religion seemed able to organise … READ MORE…
Come on clergy, admit it…do you ever feel like this? Dave Walker pokes gentle fun at The Church of England and the Anglican Communion at the site Cartoon Church.
As you may recall from some of my other posts, when we travel to major cities, Lisa and I try to “bag a Cathedral.” So far we’ve visited sister cathedrals in Portland OR, Minneapolis MN, and Washington DC. We always introduce ourselves, and bring back a bulletin for Chris Harris (the bulletin sits on our … READ MORE…
John Sanford, a former rector at St. Paul’s, once wrote a book titled “The Kingdom Within.” It was based on a text from the 17th Chapter of St. Luke, in which Jesus says “The Kingdom of God is Within You.” Many of the parables Jesus told were about spiritual growth,like the story of the mustard … READ MORE…
I attended the last “What Is An Episcopalian” series because I wanted to look into a world which had been dark and mysterious to me as a child of the Pentecostal branch of evangelicalism. As an evangelical missionary in the arts, my spiritual growth steadily led me across denominations with increasing interaction in Episcopalian circles … READ MORE…
What is an Episcopalian? Now THAT’s a brave question. If you subscribe to St. Paul Cathedral’s mission statement, there are likely as many answers as there are Episcopalians! I learned through the unfolding of the 10-week-long course that I love this faith tradition… and it accepts and affirms ME. In the end it doesn’t matter … READ MORE…