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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 your [...]

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 with my [...]

BOUT The time I was 17, I took a ride with my Mom and a Rabbi. For work, Mom was driving the conserva/dox Rabbi to Newark Airport. Mom was a paralegal and, although I’m not sure, I imagine the Rabbi was a client or witness for a client of the law office where Mom worked. [...]

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. We recognize our [...]

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 [...]

NDREW Sullivan took me down an unexpected course of cultural criticism today. In his first post, The Tao Of Guitar Hero he points us to an article by Rob Horning: For the cost of an Xbox and the Guitar Hero game, you can get yourself a pretty good guitar. I can’t help but feel that [...]

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 and [...]

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, in the [...]