October 29, 2013

Pray-ers

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“These folks prayed for me when I was in the hospital when they didn’t even know me. When I first came to visit, they knew me because they...
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Having It Both Ways, Take 2

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Nearly two weeks ago, I wrote about the strange case of Episcopal priest Whis Hays, who is a candidate this weekend for a seat on the Commit...
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October 28, 2013

Gene Robinson to Visit Pittsburgh

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The Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson will visit East Liberty Presbyterian Church   November 9 and 10. According to an October 23, 2013, press r...
October 26, 2013

GAFCON Declares War on the Anglican Communion

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At the start of GAFCON II, which ended today in Nairobi, George Conger, in a post titled “ Whither Gafcon II ,” described GAFCON as “a movem...
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October 24, 2013

A New Hymn: Holy Eucharist

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A few months ago, during a service at my church, I thought of the line As we kneel before your altar  This was the beginning of my hymn...
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In Need of a Ministry of Presence

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When a new CEO joins a corporation that has been in trouble, people expect the new leader to hit the ground running and to work very hard un...
October 21, 2013

Convention Questions

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The Board of Directors of Progressive Episcopalians of Pittsburgh met October 14 to discuss materials for the upcoming diocesan convention....
October 16, 2013

Having It Both Ways

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The Rev. Whis Hays A priest canonically resident in the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh is a candidate for a seat on the Committee on Ca...
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October 15, 2013

Kicking the Can down the Road

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Sex is something we don’t like to talk about in the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh. Some people don’t like to talk about it, anyway. Prog...
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October 10, 2013

Convention Journals

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It had long been the practice of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh to publish a pre-convention journal to be distributed to deputies befor...
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October 9, 2013

Government by Morons

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I posted the graphic above on Facebook the other day. Facebook status updates quickly disappear from news feeds, however, and I thought ...
October 8, 2013

A Final (?) Hymn Revision

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For far too long, I have been working on my hymn “Heavens and Earth, All of Creation,” an alternative text for the David N. Johnson tune “Ea...
October 2, 2013

The Missionary Society

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Warning . What follows is really “inside baseball.” On the whole, it will affect the average Episcopalian, let alone the average any one ...
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September 28, 2013

Preëmptive Resolution Presented to Board of Old St. Luke’s

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Old St. Luke’s is an historic church of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh that had its origin in colonial times and played a role in the ...
September 11, 2013

Remembering 9/11

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One of the things I thought about after the attack on September 11, 2001 was what it must have been like to be in the World Trade Center tow...