When Stress Is Good
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There's a new research study out that touts the benefits of stress.
While there are many reasons to lessen stress in our lives and to seek
release fr...
Bishop of Aberdeen & Orkney suspended
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Press release from the Scottish Episcopal Church. Canonical process
confirmed in Diocese of Aberdeen & Orkney August 10, 2022 The Scottish
Episcopal Chur...
Open A Bible And Be Dangerous To The World
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God's food for thought.
They don't like it very much when God's truth gets people thinking.
The post Open A Bible And Be Dangerous To The World appeared ...
Dancing toward the cross
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If you are on social media and want to follow someone, all you have to do
is click a button and the app does all the work. All you have to do is
decide is...
The Blind Christ (2016)
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Christopher Murray's *El Cristo Ciego* (The Blind Christ, 2016) leaves
Netflix tonight after a 5 year run in which it's garnered almost no
attention, eve...
Committee 11: Evangelism & Church Planting
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The main series of "And also with blue" concludes with this guest blogger's
commentary on the resolutions dealing with evangelism and church planting.
The Strathfarrar Quartet
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There is really is something wonderful about the vast area of wild land
that lies between Inverness and Kyle of Lochalsh. The roads, and railway
lines do...
Jesus the spirit-filled exorcist in Mark's Gospel
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Mark's gospel presents Jesus first & foremost as a spirit-filled exorcist
from a baptism by John in which the spirit comes into him. It is in the
spirit ...
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
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Desmond Tutu was small in stature but a giant of a man. Others have
commented on his greatness in terms of being a moral leader, one who spoke
truth to ...
Two Prophetic Women, a Lord, and a Leaper
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Below is a rough translation and some exegetical notes for Luke 1:39-48,
the gospel reading for the fourth Sunday of Advent, year C. It is a
familiar story...
God, Grace, and Horses
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To say the past almost two years have been trying is an understatement. We
were living life, and then...
It all stopped. During the pandemic, so much slo...
Bernd Wallet – Archbishop of Utrecht
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After delays because of Covid, Bernd Wallet was finally ordained bishop and
installed as Archbishop of Utrecht in the Old Catholic Church.
What We Can Now Live With
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Today it has been a whole year since I was advised to go into
self-isolation, as it was called back then, because of Covid19. I had been
ill with a chest i...
belief
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Scholars of religion generally agree that belief is a Western, Christian,
and even Protestant construction that obscures more than illuminates the
lives of...
Aquinas on emotion, pt. 2 (ST 2.23)
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In a previous post I began a commentary on Aquinas' understanding of
emotion (or "the passions") as it is laid out in the *Summa theologica*. In that
refl...
Disconnect
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Earlier today, I spoke to my stepfather for the first time in several years
- and likely for the last time in this life.
The reasons for our estrangement a...
Back to the Holy Drawing Board, with some relief
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For a conventional set up like the Church of England General Synod, all its
structures loaded for deference, yesterday's result was something of a
shock t...
Goodnight, Sweetheart
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Everyone's life changes. Mine is no exception.
When I started this blog in 2006, blogging was relatively new, and I was
relatively new to the Episcopal ...
Viridarium Novum
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*A Little Book of Nature*
*'New little book of flowers, in it all kinds of beautiful flowers, also
fruits and little animals, which are very useful to pain...
Advent Blessings
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Love Blooms Bright has come to an end this year. Thank you all for sharing
this space — readers, writers, artists, friends. You have given me many
blessing...
On Being 80
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oh yes. A new thing. My liver enzymes are up. The result of methotrexate
for 20 years, and leflunomide combined with it, has a high rate leading to
toxic l...
traces of the past
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"I haven’t seen that much of the world honestly, but from what I have seen,
this area strikes me as being particularly beautiful but also haunted by
its hi...