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Lenten Evening Prayer: Parables Ancient and Modern – Translating the Word
This year our Lenten Evening Prayer services draw on Peter Rollins collection of Parables found in “The Orthodox Heretic and Other Impossible Tales”. Prayers are drawn from the writings of the...
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Buddha at the Gas Pump interviews Thomas Keating
Fr. Keating is an internationally renowned theologian and an accomplished author. He has traveled the world to speak with laypeople and communities about contemplative Christian practices and the...
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Moving Beyond Tribal Theism with John Shelby Spong
Feb.20, 2013: Preaching during the Lenten Preaching Series at Calvary Episcopal Church in Tennessee, Bishop Spong calls the church to move beyond tribal understandings of the nature of God. As always...
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Lenten Evening Prayer: Parables Ancient and Modern – The Book of Love
This year our Lenten Evening Prayer services draw on Peter Rollins collection of Parables found in “The Orthodox Heretic and Other Impossible Tales”. Prayers are drawn from the writings of the...
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Lenten Evening Prayer: Parables Ancient and Modern – Betrayal
This year our Lenten Evening Prayer services draw on Peter Rollins collection of Parables found in “The Orthodox Heretic and Other Impossible Tales”. Prayers are drawn from the writings of the...
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Easter: 50 Days to Practice Resurrection!
Reposted from last year – Sermon for the Second Sunday of Easter April 15 2012 This Sunday I tried something new: introducing a video clip into the sermon! You can view the video within the written...
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The Passion of Jesus: The Way and the Kingdom of God – Marcus Borg
Speaking on March 17, 2013, Marcus Borg points to the teachings of Jesus, who he describes as a decisive revelation of God’s character, to outline the “Passion of Jesus” in order to move us toward a...
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While Preachers Dutifully Ponder the Doctrine of the Trinity, Our...
This Sunday is Trinity Sunday. In anticipation, preachers all over the world are dutifully pondering the Doctrine of the Trinity desperately searching for something to say to encourage their...
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A New Harmony: Re-Imagining St. Paul’s Vision of Oneness
Thinking about this Sunday’s epistle reading, Galatians 3:23-29 and wondering how we might re-imagine the Apostle Paul’s insistence that in Christ “There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no slave...
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A 69 Chevy Nova, Tea and the ONE In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being
A sermon on Galatians 3:23-29 and Luke 8:26-39 I am indebted to John Philip Newell and his book: A New Harmony for the insights that lie at the heart of this sermon. Listen to the sermon here Download...
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A Way to Understand the Resurrection – Richard Holloway
Peter Callesen’s Papercut Resurrection Richard Holloway, the former Primate of the Scottish Episcopal Church, interprets the story of the resurrection not as an historical tale, but as our own story....
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Canadian Lutheran World Relief and the Primate’s World Relief and Development...
Stroumboulopoulos beware: our own Bishop Michael Pryse’s interview skills might put you out of a job. Bishop Pryse explores the work of the relief agencies of the ELCIC and ACC during the Joint...
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What do the Feast Day of the Transfiguration and Hiroshima Day Share?
Today is Hiroshima Day. It is also the Feast of the Transfiguration. So I am reposting this as it appeared earlier this year in preparation for the Sunday of the Transfiguration. You Have the Power...
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Commemoration of Saint Mary: Was Mary a Virgin or Was Mary Raped?
Mary Pregnant? St. Matthew-in-the-City (Auckland, NZ) I’m on vacation so I don’t get to preach this coming Sunday. But if I did, I suspect that I would move the Commemoration of St. Mary to Sunday and...
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Struggling to Comprehend the Worst Humanitarian Crisis in Twenty Years???
For three years the news media has issued reports of the civil war in Syria. An humanitarian crisis is measured in numbers and the latest reports insist that 100,000 lives have been lost and to date...
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Hildegard von Bingen – Woman of Vision – Feast Day September 17
Herald of the Divine Feminine, reformer of the church and green prophet! September 17th is the feast day of the Christian mystic Hildegard von Bingen, a woman of great vision, a woman centuries ahead...
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EVENING PRAYER – Hildegard von Bingen
Evening Prayer Liturgy with text and music inspired by Hildegard von Bingen (developed at Holy Cross Lutheran Church) Evening Prayer Service Bulletin which is to be printed double-sided Evening Prayer...
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LOV Ministries at Holy Cross
In response to the needs of our neighbours, Holy Cross Lutheran Church’s Global Justice Team created the Lutheran Outreach Volunteers Program otherwise known as LOV Ministries. LOV volunteers currently...
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The Science of Happiness – An Experiment in Gratitude
Your Mom and Dad were right when they taught you that “thank-you” is a magic word. Science now confirms what we learned at our parents’ knees all those years ago. Happy Thanksgiving!
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PubNight at Holy Cross’ Beyond Church Pub
Click here to see what happened the last time the Lester McLean Trio was at Holy Cross
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