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Presiding Bishop
Prays During Riot
Presiding Bishop Michael B. Curry made an unscheduled appearance on the Church's Facebook page and other outlets during a "coup attempt" at the nation's capital, praying "that all peoples may be gathered under the banner of the Prince of Peace, as children of one Father."
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Retired Georgia Bishop Louttit Dies
By Kirk Petersen
The Rt. Rev. Henry I. Louttit Jr., who served as Bishop of Georgia from 1995 to 2010, died peacefully on New Year's Eve at the age of 82. He had a strong interest in liturgical renewal, and was involved in the creation of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer.
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Progressive Bishop
For North Dakota
By Kirk Petersen
The Diocese of North Dakota will be led temporarily by Bishop Thomas Ely, who retired as Bishop of Vermont in 2019. He is a strong supporter of same-sex marriage rites, while the most recent North Dakota bishop, the Rt. Rev. Michael Smith, is a prominent opponent.
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Hospitality in a Pandemic?
By E.S. Kempson
The Christ-like hospitality Christians are called to offer should have the character of inviting people, especially the stranger, as they are, acting to receive and give life, and looking for transformation to occur.
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No War on Christmas
By Esau McCaulley
The battle over Christmas has little to do with the events the season remembers. It is about the ability to name the celebratory mood that pervades the month of December. When the pandemic took away the celebratory mood, the main battlefield was taken away from us.
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Mark: The Beginning of the Good News
By Brandt L. Montgomery
We may sometimes think of ourselves as unworthy of Jesus’s love. We might think that our sins our too numerous for Jesus to ever want to have anything to do with us. We must guard against this thought — it is what Satan would want us to think. We all have done things that have fallen short of God’s glory. Jesus knows with what we come to Him. But for any and all who follow Jesus, there is plenteous redemption, the chance for a new start.
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12 Days of Christmas: Gregory & Basil
By Hannah Matis
Remembering Gregory Nazianzen and Basil the Great, we reflect that zero-waste living and other such initiatives in sustainability bear at least a superficial resemblance to monasticism as it has often been practiced historically: forgoing the life of the consumer, vegetarian or vegan diet, self-sufficient monastic garden, the combination of physical labor with prayer or meditation. These practices cry out for some underlying doctrine of the soul to which they can anchor.
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