Category Archives: Religion

Response to disaster

A thought occasioned by Bishop George Councel’s meditation on loss in the time of natural disaster: We live in the illusion that we can adapt and change the world to our purposes. Rather than recognizing that we are made to … Continue reading

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Lenten Bible Study Day 8; Luke 8

I’m posting this Lenten reflection here as well as on the diocesan blog, where the rest of them have been posted. The subject matter touches on faith and science and I thought those of you reading here but not there … Continue reading

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Journey through Lent: Ash Wednesday, Day 1

As part of our Lenten observance in the Diocese of Rhode Island, I’ve invited people to read Luke and Acts with me. I’m posting a daily mediation on the diocesan blog. We’d love to have you join in the journey with us over there. Continue reading

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Christmas Sermon 2012

Having just returned to the Northeast from the Southwest, it’s not the change in temperature or weather that has been the most striking. It’s the change in the length of and the darkness of the night. In the Southwest, we … Continue reading

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Prayers for the victims of violence in Newtown CT

Dear clergy and people of Rhode Island; We are all struggling to make sense of what is, at its heart, a senseless act of violence. I invite those who wish, to add the following collect to your prayers in the … Continue reading

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Making Covenant: between relativism and determinism

Rabbi Sachs says that we can lift ourselves out of the trap caused by Scylla and Charybdis of Absolutism and Relativism by intentionally creating meaning as a community – a community that includes the sacred presence of God. And for us Christians, it’s a God we know through the power of the stories of the scriptures, and particularly in the stories that Jesus told us. Continue reading

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A prayer for those in Hurricane Sandy’s path this day

Holy God, sovereign of all creation, remember your people in harm’s way this day. Protect us from the storm that rages around us. Let us find safe anchor in your gracious providence through this night, and preserve us until the dawn. In Jesus, the bringer of hope’s name we pray. Continue reading

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Chapel Rock; A new hope

“God was present to these people and they felt that presence, often in ways they never had before. God allowed that presence to seep deep into the cracks in of their souls that had opened and allowed the pain to pour out. God’s Holy Spirit flowed in, making level the places that were strewn with rocky memories.” Continue reading

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Where do Episcopalians live?

There’s been a great deal of research on the ways different sized Episcopal Churches function, and on the distribution of parish sizes. We know that most (more than half?) of the Episcopal Church congregations can be considered small or “family” … Continue reading

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Bikes making a comeback in cities

Bikes are becoming more popular – is this something congregations need to think about? Continue reading

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