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ERGE RECENTLY WROTE Some very kind (tough but kind) things about me on his blog last week and then entered into a dialogue about those things in the comment section. Other people have asked me about the things he said: are they true?
First, thank you Serge. I’m honoured by your kindness. And by [...]

‘ALL (Clergy or not) take a look at this post from TribalChurch. Although she writes in a Presbyterian community, I think it’s a valid question for us using the traditional model of the three-fold ministerial hierarchy of Deacon, Presbyter, Bishop (in the Indy, Eastern, Roman, Anglican or Lutheran etc communities).
How do we stop [...]

VER THE LAST FEW weeks, something has come into a sharp focus that was kinda fuzzy a few months ago and totally non-existant a few years ago. Part of the focus has been the development of the language to talk about it. This was made a sharper focus tonight through two conversations: one [...]

God of unchangeable power and eternal light: Look favorably on your whole Church, that wonderful and sacred mystery; by the effectual working of your providence, carry out in tranquillity the plan of salvation; let the whole world see and know that things which were being cast down are being raised up, and things which [...]

S PART of my on-going vocational discernment, I’ve decided to look at clergy that I admire and pull out common traits. Actually, there’s a modicum of parallels even with some clergy I despise…
To use an over-abused word, all of ‘em are Mavericks. A maverick is an unbranded range animal, especially a motherless calf. It [...]

RINITY CHURCH, Buffalo, Is going through some discernment processes just now. She’s trying to decide what are the next steps to take in her parochial vocation as stipulated in the Mission Statement.
Trinity is a metropolitan house of prayer. We’re a community of worship and spiritual inquiry and we welcome all people. [...]

The LORD called Samuel again, a third time. And he got up and went to Eli, and said, “Here I am, for you called me.” Then Eli perceived that the LORD was calling the boy. Therefore Eli said to Samuel, “Go, lie down; and if he calls you, you shall say, `Speak, LORD, for your [...]

S TODAY Is the feast of Christ the King – the patronal feast of the Anglican Cathedral in Hamilton as well as the feast of the RC Cathedral here – most of the hymns, this AM, were rather laudatory and muscular, to use the word used by the preacher. One gets the rather masculine [...]

ECENT CONVERSATIONS With several clergy and wannabe clergy folks within ECUSA, Orthodoxy, Judaism and the Indy Sacramental movement have led me to a corner I’ve visited before and I keep coming back to it the longer I pray.
Define the difference between Ordination in any mainline church and ordination in almost every non-mainline church [...]

WO THINGS Happened in my world yesterday worth sharing:
1) I had a meeting with Cam and we’ve decided to take a couple of steps forward in the discernment process (ie: I’m getting a committee). Expect an entire new topic-pile of rambles as I continue to explore the concept of vocation, priesthood, whatever, [...]