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“I’d never cried like that before, but the psalmist had”
Today, I write at the Covenant Blog about how memorizing prayers has helped me deal with death. Check it out HERE.
I’ve also written about how I’ve seen God through life with my grandpa over the last weeks and years. Look HERE for an irregular Eucharist. And HERE for what he’s learned from illness.
Jesus is the Answer
A Sermon Preached on the Second Sunday after the Epiphany, January 18, 2015
By the Rev’d Canon Dane E. Boston, Trinity Cathedral, Columbia, South Carolina
Texts: I Corinthians 6:12-20; John 1:43-51
May I speak in the Name of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. Amen.
Questions. Our readings this morning are filled with questions. We began with Paul asking the Corinthians, “Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Do you not know that you are a temple of the Holy Spirit within you? Do you not know that you are not your own?” Then in our Gospel, we heard Nathanael ask Philip, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?” just before he asks Jesus, “Where did you get to know me?” And after earnest Nathanael makes his remarkable confession of faith, finally we heard Jesus himself ask, “Do you believe because…
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My dog, my teacher
On the Covenant Blog today, what I’ve learned about God and about worship from my sweet puppy, Benedict. HERE
An Alcohol Free Lent: A Season of Repentance and Reflection
Join Canon Robert Hendrickson, and me, this Lent.
To this point I have refrained from public comment on the tragic death of a cyclist who died because of the brokenness of an Episcopal bishop in Maryland. There has been much comment on the culpability of the bishop, the diocese, and the discernment committee who put her name forward despite previous troubles with alcohol.
There has also been much written on the need for both justice and mercy in cases such as this. There has also been a good deal of emotion in debates about what it means for us to welcome into leadership those who continue to struggle with issues of addiction.
On Facebook today, a friend sent along an idea that I thought both sensible and spiritually valuable. He wrote the following:
“Like everyone in the Episcopal Church, I’ve been torn, dumbfounded, and mortified by the events of Maryland: what it says about the episcopacy and church…
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hope of things not seen 