One more poem! Too relevant to my recent musings to not post. (Found on http://maggidawn.com/priest/ but posted elsewhere online too ( Read more... )

Ordination is on my mind, as I prepare for May 30th. My classmates are intelligent and kind, but they are also a lot of Presbyterian men who were almost all formed in some kind of evangelical tradition, and so there is a lot of misogyny flying around. It's been a challenging year for me on that front ( Read more... )

Summary of Centesimus annus (a papal encyclical promulgated by John Paul II in 1991):

Socialism: still wrong.

It is no wonder that we have had to invent other games to counteract [the ways we spend time together while avoiding really "seeing" each other]. Encounter groups, T groups, the multisensory techniques of William Schutz and the Esalen Institude and the Living Theater. After all these years of playing games whose purpose it is to keep us at arm's ( Read more... )

Today is Ascension day; the feast of the Ascension will be celebrated in most churches on Sunday, but the feast day is actually today, Thursday. The feast of the Ascension commemorates when Jesus was carried up into heaven, 40 days after his resurrection ("a good biblical number" as says a post I just read). I had hoped to attend a service for this ( Read more... )

Here is a benediction that was used by the Rev. Dr. Doug Oldenburg frequently as he traveled the country as moderator of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).
"As you leave, I charge you to remember this above all else ( Read more... )