With a fellow parish, my wife, Sr. Warden, and I took a mission trip to Guadalajara. There, we did a seminar entitled ‘The Life in the Spirit’ which is a course designed to teach some basics and to bring folks to a deeper walk with Christ. Lots of experiential stuff that Constantine likes. I’ll have […]
Month: October 2005
Keeping the lamps trimmed and burning…and the lights on too
Giving to the church Deux: Going back to the discussion on giving, we are in our annual pledge drive. I got some pretty honest and important feedback (see the post ‘how to ask’ below)from you readers. When you’re dealing with a church budget, some of an average person’s pledge will go to the rising energy […]
Pro Bono
Listen to this great quote from U2’s Bono: “The idea that there’s a force of love and logic behind the universe is overwhelming to start with, if you believe it. Actually, maybe even far-fetched to start with…But the idea that that same love and logic would choose to describe itself as a baby born in […]
Gnosis with the Mostest
On more than one occasion, I’ve heard Episcopal priests use this quote from Teilhard de Chardin, “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, but we are spiritual beings having human experience.” What sayeth ye readers? Is what the Frenchmen says true?