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Posted on 6 October, 2014 by Emily

A Sermon for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost, October 5, 2014

Preached by the Rev’d Canon Dane E. Boston, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Columbia, South Carolina

Texts: Philippians 3:4b-14; Matthew 21:33-46

May I speak in the Name of God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. Amen.

When was the last time you worked on your resume? That may seem a strange and irrelevant question to those of you not actively seeking employment. That may seem a perfectly ridiculous question to those of you who are retired.

But I’d like you to think for a moment of what working on a resume means. Think of that process of distilling the important stuff of your life down to one or two measly pages. Think of the struggle to give a sense for your passion and purpose through a dull litany of old jobs. Think of that effort to prove…

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home improvement – reblog

Posted on 6 October, 2014 by Emily

a bi-fold closet door/screen idea I’m inspired by this morning. S25

(from Little Green Notebook)

“Homesick at Home”

Posted on 4 October, 2014 by Emily

I’ve been thinking, recently, about the Episcopal Church. There’s a lot that makes me cry and makes me want a glass of wine, but it’s the only place where evangelical zeal, mystical drama, and universal, historical order meet–as my friend Andrew Petiprin says here.

reblogged from the Covenant Blog.

brave people make intimidating congregations

Posted on 2 October, 2014 by Emily

Over coffee this morning, shop-talking with my colleague, Dane, I thought of this ole post. May the 26 y.o. Emily speak to you as she’s spoken to me–demanding courage to speak the truth at all times and in all places.

hope of things not seen

Often, while sermon-writing, words come slowly, and when they come, they seem like little clods of dirt that break apart into dust the moment you try to grasp them. This exercise sends me running through my cycle of google reader-facebook-twitter. Having just completed the circuit a few minutes before, there was nothing new on my reader, but when i typed in “fac” in my browser bar (the fewest letters necessary to bring up my worn “facebook.com” link) and arrived at the top of my newsfeed, a new photo had been posted by my sister:

She wore a white sundress, her blonde hair was down, and the big white posterboard she held up read, “Shh… just go back to sleep.” It was a photo taken for Project Unbreakable, a website dedicated to survivors of sexual assault. I’d known about the event she referred to for a few months, but seeing…

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How I limited screen time by offering my kids unlimited screen time.

Posted on 15 September, 2014 by Emily

tricking myself with this today…

Narrowback Slacker

As a freelancer who makes her own hours, I’ve learned a few things about personal momentum. I’m a morning person, and my peak productive time is before 10:00am. If I start my day by sitting at the desk at, say, 5:00am, and digging in on actual work, I’ll keep going all day. If I start the day by, say, cleaning the kitchen or folding laundry or phaffing about on the interwebs, I’m in trouble. And if, God forbid, I sit on the couch and flip on The Today Show, all bets are off; I’m not moving until bedtime. I think of it as Newton’s Law of Personal Momentum, for I am an object that will either stay at rest or stay in motion, based on where I am at 5:30 am.

My kids are the same way. And because they are youth existing in the 20teens, they are drawn like…

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Evangelical Catholicism – Robert Hendrickson’s Blog

Posted on 14 September, 2014 by Emily

Or, Why I became Episcopalian part 5.

READ HERE: Why Anglicanism? Catholic Evangelism and Evangelical Catholicism.

Guest Post: Take Off Your Shoes, Take Up The Cross

Posted on 3 September, 2014 by Emily

shared this sermon with the 7:30am crowd this morning. I said to myself, “If we still read John Chrysostom out during sermon-time, I can surely read Kara Slade during sermon-time!” Best words on these passages that I’ve heard.

Jerusalem to Jericho

When she posts to a blog, Kara Slade most often posts to Profligate Grace, so I am glad to have the opportunity to post this sermon of hers on my own blog tonight!
SPOILER ALERT: This is the sermon that Kara will be preaching at St. Stephen’s Episcopal in Oxford, NC tomorrow morning (31 August 2014) – so don’t read it before then if you have the chance to go hear her deliver it live! 🙂

NB – Kara nicely footnoted all her references, but they didn’t transfer over very easily when I pasted her text in here, so I’ve done my usual version of footnoting on this blog, using links to refer you to the works she is citing.

Take Off Your Shoes, Take Up the Cross

A sermon given by the Rev. Dr. Kara N. Slade at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Oxford, NC, on the Twelfth Sunday…

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