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Feeding the Hungry
At Site of Race Riot

By Kirk Petersen
The Diocese of Oklahoma seeks to raise $100,000 to support the food ministry at a historic Black church in Tulsa, the scene of one of the worst race riots in American history.
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Podcast: Policing
In America Today

Interview by Stewart Clem
The Rev. Gayle Fisher-Stewart and the Rt. Rev. José McLoughlin were seasoned law enforcement officers. Now, as Episcopal clergy, they share their uniquely insightful perspectives on current policing practices as well as hope for change.
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Diocesan Conventions During Coronatide

By Neva Rae Fox
How do you conduct a diocesan convention when gathering hundreds of people in a hotel ballroom is out of the question? Meeting online is an obvious answer... but how about meeting at a drive-in theater?
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Clergy Facing Stress as Pandemic Continues

By G. Jeffrey MacDonald
“I have noticed a profound lack of joy in priests,” said the Rev. Ed Cardoza, a spiritual director who works largely with Episcopal clergy and finds them wounded by the inability to be present with their flocks. “This is the first time I’ve heard clergy folks say, ‘I’m really thinking about ending my life’.”
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Great Litany Subs for Holy Communion

By Sarah Hinlicky Wilson
On and off throughout adulthood, when my own prayers have been empty or weak or distractable, I have turned to the Litany. Now, in this crisis year of 2020, I’ve come to appreciate it afresh. Everything I’ve ever thought I was learning for the first time, every challenge I’ve faced without preparation, turns out to have been there in the Litany all along.
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The Advent Gospel
Of the Chicago Cubs

By Zac Koons
It took five seconds: The right fielder scooped up a ground ball, threw to first to record the final out, and the Chicago Cubs had won the World Series for the first time in over a century. Call me crazy, but just about everything you need to know about the Christian moral life is embedded in that five seconds.
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Finding Hope
In My Father's World

By Mark Michael
The hymn "This is My Father's World," may sound a little saccharine. But the hymn is more profound when seen for what it surely was: a song of praise in the midst of deep inner pain; a testimony of God’s faithfulness and watchful care from a man who believed, but at times struggled to find such assurances meaningful.
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Cultural Blinders
And the Beatitudes

By Mother Miriam
The Beatitudes are built around a word normally translated as “Blessed.” In Greek it is makarios, but English does not have an equivalent single word. This has serious implications for the Christian life, because we have difficulty describing or even identifying something for which we do not have a word.
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