Just what concrete steps should we take to make a new economic system that's NOT-
1.) ruled by a few 2.) economically unjust 3.) chronically violent and 4.) religiously legitimated?
Occupy Wall Street? Actually these four eerily familiar bullet points are Marcus Borg’s description of the ‘four central features’ of ‘the ancient domination system,’ that prophetic voices in the Bible... Read more about Human Microphone: Liturgy and Pedagogy
This video is excepts of the closing Eucharist for the Music that Makes Community held at St. Benedict's Episcopal Church in Smyrna, GA on March 11-13, 2010.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioiX8YDKPOY&feature=player_embedded Read more about A link to a Video produced by the Diocese of Atlanta
"Services in Episcopal church are like repeating fifth grade. There’s no place for me there.”
“Do I have to be able to read music to belong to this church?”
My colleagues who heard this observation and this question, one from a friend, the other from a stranger, are seasoned, committed leaders in our church, but both felt they were hearing something significant in the impression of a first-time visitor to an Episcopal Church. Read more about Like repeating fifth grade
I was folding laundry. My wife, international programs director of an NGO doing AIDS work in Africa, Ph.D. trained gerontologist, amateur actor, mother of three splendid grown children and stepmother to another splendid grown child, does her best to avoid using the dryer. Read more about You are love
Frans De Waal is a primatologist. Like Mario Iacoboni, English is his second language and like Iacoboni, his ease and clarity writing it are enviable. The two books make an intriguing complementary pair. Iacoboni gives us a guided tour of the brain (ours and those other mammals). De Waal watches the behaviors a mirroring brain makes possible. Read more about The Age of Empathy, Nature’s Lessons for a Kinder Society
I wanted to write about a practice of gratitude, a new daily routine that I’m hoping to make as habitual as flossing my teeth. No, more than wanted to, I guess I am beginning to write about it. I’ll get to the problem in a moment. Read more about The Practice of "Thank You"
I’m inviting you to an important conversation. For two years since leaving the Rectorship of St Gregory Nyssen, San Francisco, I have traveled to scores of other Sunday services. Everywhere I encountered courteous welcome, and sometimes warm interest in what St Gregory’s Church does. Read more about What’s all this for?
This past summer we incorporated a new, and at the same time ancient, way of singing that focuses on the communal aspects of congregational singing. It is music and singing that is largely unaccompanied and doesn’t require any printed or projected materials. Read more about “Communitas” Comes to the Cathedral
