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“No matter what”
Last week, sitting in a field at the 2011 Alive Christian Music Festival, I heard a speaker say something quite unexpected: “God loves you, no matter what the Bible says.” It seemed like an odd thing to say, and it certainly … Continue reading
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Tagged Alive Christian Music Festival, Church in Wales, Deuteronomy, prayer of humble access
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Book Review: Plastic – A Toxic Love Story, by Susan Freinkel
Following my adventures with plastic knitting (see previous post), I was fascinated to hear of the publication of Susan Freinkel’s Plastic: A Toxic Love Story (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011). Freinkel’s journalistic exploration of the history and present and future … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, knitting, plastic, Plastic A Toxic Love Story, Susan Freinkel
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A Plastic Story
Last month, some friends and collaborators presented our church with a new set of liturgical vestments: an altar cloth, a chasuble, stoles for all the clergy and more. The twist? They were all knit and crocheted out of plastic shopping bags. … Continue reading
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Tagged knitting, Knitting Pearls, plastic, recycling, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cleveland, vestments
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Telling the Truth
(A poem for Pentecost.) “Words written in the past are fixed,” he said, “the meaning unchangeable; otherwise, you and I, we have no truth to tell, only words,” and we watched the sun slip its moorings and fall behind the trees beyond the lilied … Continue reading
Waiting
Last Thursday evening, I saw a new spotted fawn springing across our lawn, full of the joy of simply being alive. On Saturday, my teenagers reported that the fawn was sleeping in the tendrils of a fallen tree limb in … Continue reading
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Ascension
A sermon for the Seventh Sunday in Easter (the Sunday after the Ascension), June 5th, 2011, preached at Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, Ohio – my first as a Deacon! A podcast of the sermon is available via http://trinitycleveland.org/podcasts/sermons.html “Men of Galilee, … Continue reading
Backdated: Ascension (again)
As promised, here is the next installment in a three-week/three-year sweep of Ascension sermons. This one was preached on May 12th, 2010, the Eve of the Ascension, at the Choral Evensong of Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, OH, using the Year C … Continue reading
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Tagged Ascension, Donald MacKinnon, sermon, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral Cleveland
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Backdated: Ascension stories
It’s been a busy couple of weeks, and it’s getting busier, so while I still can, I’m dipping into the archives again. This week’s homily time travels from Evensong at Trinity Cathedral, Cleveland, on the Eve of the Ascension 2009, … Continue reading
A Sighting
Yesterday, rounding the corner, I saw my brother standing on the sidewalk, dressed as ever in his soft gray t-shirt and rough, sloppy jeans, his scarred, shaven head bruised with stubble, sucking in cigarette smoke with the sharp, spring air, his cheeks drawn … Continue reading
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Backdated: Easter for the lost and the lonely
This was the post I had intended to use today, you know, before today happened. This sermon was preached on “Low Sunday” last year, April 11th 2010, at St Peter’s Episcopal Church, Lakewood, Ohio: Do you remember this story? A … Continue reading
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