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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. [...]

UNDAY’S Sermon atTrinity Church, Buffalo included this passage, commenting on the opening line of the Gospel of Mark:
You may have read or heard that opening line dozens or even scores of times if you have been a regular church-goer, especially in Advent. But I want us to hear that opening sentence with this background.
On [...]

UNDAY’S SERMON Moved me from a quiet meditation (I was sitting with my eyes closed, peaceably listening) to an eye-popping climax
The whole basis of our economic life has been made into competition with one another, and rooted in out-consuming each other. Instead of inter-dependence we have all been raised in the myth of self-sufficiency. We [...]

Drafting this for the E-Newsleter for Trinity Church
Members and Clergy of Trinity Church went to the Diocesan Convention on Friday and Saturday (24 and 25 October). Convention is the annual business meeting of the diocese and, since the Episcopal Church is a democratically-governed organisation, all parishes have a say in the process.
Bishop Garrison’s [...]

Y PARISH, Trinity Church, Buffalo, has a new website! It’s all up to date and fabulous. Look for podcasting of our sermons later, although there’s stuff there to read (etc) now. Go! Read, mark, learn and inwardly digest!

ODAY’S Readings in my RSS are filled with an odd counterpoint: on the one hand there are the Lambeth Bishops. The officially scoured and spun blog from 815-land. There are on-going Episcopal contributions such as Bp Alan and there are newbies to the fold such as Bp Porter.
And there is news [...]

EDNESDAY We were discussing the use of images of Jesus – and the races depicted thereon. I realised two things: 1) the Renaissance cultures that produced the all-white Jesus never really expected to run into any other culture. 2) Traditional icons of Jesus (not the cartoony ones done in the last 40 years [...]

Surprise! a two-part video recording of Cam’s sermon from yesterday. And, yes! A YouTube Account! Nice! Way to go Trinity: now get some podcasting!