Within the church, take sin seriously. We must judge ourselves. This is a different posture from when we interact with the outside world, engaging with tax collectors and sinners.
My personal favorite was when a long established parish was constructing a new building and the sign out front identified “the future site of Old St Mary’s Church)
Maybe that could be a CSM mission house?! This would be acceptable.
I told the SSJE superior that I decided what the Church really needed was for them to have a mission house by Kenyon College (he is also an alum) and well it was only fair to tell him I was going over his head and speaking directly to Jesus on the matter.
The Sewanee branch is quite the happening community right now. Two older sisters (still active) who have been there for decades. Sister Hannah life professed in I think 2022. Sister Felicity just life professed a couple weeks ago. Two novices. And rumor has it there are more preparing to enter.
Annual meeting Sunday but duty called me elsewhere. However I was able to get the high points from the church friends group text while they were attending or streaming. Highly recommend this approach.
Oh I hope that such a thing exists but I highly doubt it
Yesterday I hung out on campus and talked to exactly no one (there was a table of vegans across the way and people stopped to fight with the vegans and they ignored me) but simply being visible has value. Maybe next time someone will stop to say hi
It totally makes sense! The Cross is the culmination of God’s love. “He showed the full extent of His love.” It is complete. I will die on this hill.
I do “the love of God was satisfied” but I also like magnified.
Ohhh I was thinking Anglican Catholic Church (Continuum) and having some pondering about that.
Oooh. I heard that my diocese is about to start a licensed lay preacher thing and I’m intrigued.
There’s breadth and there’s depth and they are both important. I knew a pastor who would preach three series a year, one OT one gospel and one epistle. That seemed a good balance to me.
I went to a church years ago that was in the middle of two years on First Corinthians. Given that I was used to a lectionary system that covered THE BIBLE every three years, my little brain exploded.
Saw three services at three different churches (2 TEC, one nondenom) with a total of zero references to Martin Luther King. Pondering this.
*the stories that got passed around are probably more hagiography than factual, but it’s still significant that these stories were celebrated
Heck these are people who responded to Columbine by celebrating teenage martyrs* and teaching their children to be ready to do the same. You can say that’s messed up. And it is! But it’s not thinking we should be able to skip suffering.
Do evangelicals tend to exaggerate the costs they pay, or sometimes act like right jerks and consider the reactions to their jerkiness as persecution they must endure? Absolutely and that’s very bad. But they do expect to pay a price. In my observation we mainliners do not.
The “laying down your life also means laying down your lifestyle” reference I made elsewhere in this thread was from the evangelical church. The one time I’ve come across that sentiment in Episcopal settings was in a Bible study I wrote, quoting my former evangelical pastor.
Grow up, no. Spend about ten years in a solidly evangelical church in my 20s and 30s after being involved in campus fellowships in college and grad school, yes.
I can’t quite imagine an evangelical flat out saying “I didn’t sign up to be a martyr”
Expecting that discipleship will be costly and being willing to pay a price to stay faithful.
Your experience is different from mine on this one.
Hard disagree. In my experience evangelicals are much better at this than we are. Your experience may be different of course.
One of my favorite pastors ever used to say that we probably won’t be called to lay down our lives, but embedded in that is also a call to lay down our lifestyle
Rails are much faster than standing lines so that isn’t it. But there are ideological connotations in Catholic circles that just don’t translate for us. (It took me a LONG time to get used to rails because I was reading in Catholic politics)
I must take a firm stand against incorporating the South East Conference football calendar. There must be limits. 😆
I was corralling a 3 year old, 5 year old and 9 year old. Everybody is kinda grouchy and needs a nap but they’re returned back to their parents in one piece.
I spent a chunk of the pageant service paging through the hymnal with my five year old nephew looking for “6-7.” I regret nothing.
Yikes.
