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Bishop Dan's Blog: January 2015
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Thursday, January 29, 2015. 13TH EPISTLE TO THE NEVADANS: SEVEN YEARS IN NEVADA. 8220;Who are you really wanderer? 8220; Your job is to find what the world is trying to be. It would be ego gratifying if I could say the diocese was in shambles then but thanks to my heroic virtues we are now flourishing. The truth is the diocese was in pretty good shape in those days, even though it had some struggles. Today, we are still in good shape and we still have some struggles, just different struggles. My sense is...
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Bishop Dan's Blog: November 2014
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Wednesday, November 19, 2014. 9TH EPISTLE TO THE NEVADANS: THE GRACE OF CONFLICT. The Church exists first and foremost as a place where we learn to feed each other, and – this is even harder – be fed by each other. These are not easy lessons because an unfortunate twist in human nature gets in our way. The first congregation I served as a priest. Was Christ Church, Macon, Georgia. In the mid-19. Well - uproarious. In the end, Mr. Reese and half the congregation. Century when Archbishop Law was torturing ...
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Bishop Dan's Blog: THE CATACLYSMIC PEW REPORT!!! IS THE PARTY ALL OVER?
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015. THE CATACLYSMIC PEW REPORT! IS THE PARTY ALL OVER? There is a stir this week about a Pew Forum survey showing a general numerical decline of churches, including the Episcopal Church. Mainliners like us declined by a whopping 3.4% in the past 7 years. Http:/ www.patheos.com/blogs/unsystematictheology/2015/05/reflections-on-the-pew-forum-adjusting-to-the-new-normal/. Http:/ www.amazon.com/My-Church-Not-Dying-Episcopalians/dp/0819229342/ref=sr 1 1? Congregations with a clear mission...
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Bishop Dan's Blog: LIVE FROM ANATOLIA: PART III -- POETS OF THE INNNER AND OUTER MYSTERY OF BEING
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Saturday, May 23, 2015. LIVE FROM ANATOLIA: PART III - POETS OF THE INNNER AND OUTER MYSTERY OF BEING. The whole situation was odd to begin with. I am not suggesting it did not happen like that. I am wondering what shifting and shaking was already going on in Paul’s religion when he set out for Damascus. Then we hit the road for Konya, which was known as Iconium when Paul and Barnabas stopped to spread the gospel on their way back to Antioch (Syria) from Cyprus. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). LIVE F...
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Bishop Dan's Blog: April 2014
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014. SO JUST WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE? 3RD EPISTLE TO THE NEVADANS. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. I have been pleased that in response to the first two Epistles to the Nevadans, people have suggested various topics I should attempt to elucidate. It is a mark that God has answered our baptismal payer that you should have “inquiring minds.” We will get to many topics in due course. Comes into the Church thorugh the Latin credo (. So how does that work?
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Bishop Dan's Blog: 15TH EPISTLE TO THE NEVADANS: AIN'T NOBODY HAVING FUN
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Monday, May 4, 2015. 15TH EPISTLE TO THE NEVADANS: AIN'T NOBODY HAVING FUN. Our walls of division do not rise all the way to heaven. Metropolitan Philaret of Moscow. What God Asks Of Us:. This message is simple to understand but hard to practice. Jesus is quite clear and emphatic about the attitude Christians are to take to one another. Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who mistreat you. A new commandment I give you. Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. But here...
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Bishop Dan's Blog: May 2014
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Monday, May 26, 2014. REVERENCE FOR GOD and RESPECT FOR OTHERS: DISCERNING GOOD AND BAD RELIGION. The second complication is that there is a lot of bad religion about. And bad religion really does need to be called out and named as such to keep it from doing harm. So, if I am so committed to respecting the faith of others, what do I mean by “bad religion? Do they become calmer, wiser, gentler? Or does the religion produce hatred, bigotry, rigidity, anxiety, fear, loathing, contempt? If our faith is roote...
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Bishop Dan's Blog: March 2015
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015. LIVE FROM KANUGA: PART 5. Today was the business meeting of the House of Bishops. First we passed the resolution on our own behavioral norms for Convention, essentially a behavioral covenant committing us to prayer, direct communication, and respect for those with whom we disagree. The ecclesiology committee (Ecclesiology” is the theological doctrine of the nature of the Church) then asked us to disseminate their draft report, Remembering and Reimagining. Finally, we passed a Res...
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Bishop Dan's Blog: June 2014
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Saturday, June 28, 2014. THE MODERN DIACONATE COMES OF AGE. Deacons are in one sense as old as the Church. In another sense, deacons are rather new. If you want a concise history of how the diaconate was born, went dormant, and then sprang back to life, you could not do better than this link:. Http:/ www.sfd.edu/book/export/html/45. In the wider Church, the experience with the diaconate has been more checkered. There has been a lot of good, but there have also been some problems. We had several group...
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Bishop Dan's Blog: December 2014
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Sunday, December 28, 2014. THE PROLOGUE TO JOHN: WHAT IF IT REALLY WAS "IN THE BEGINNING? The Gospel Lesson for the first Sunday of Christmas is the operatic Prologue to the Gospel According To John:. In the beginning was the Word. And the World was with God. And the Word was God. Through him all things were made. And without him not anything was made. And that life was the light of humanity. The light shines in the darkness. And the darkness has not overcome/comprehended it . . . So here’s what I ...
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