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hereby request admission as a Postulant for Priesthood

Recently I took a very nerve racking and exciting step that included the following words:

After much discernment, prayers and reflection I believe God has called me to participate as an ordained priest in the work of reconciliation and spiritual formation of His people. I want to invite and welcome people into the family of God [...]

Remembering the Feast of Enmegahbowh, First Native American Episcopal Priest

 
 

Lessons appointed for use on the Feast of Enmagahbowh
Enmegahbowh (ca. 1807 – June 12, 1902; from Enami’egaabaw, meaning “He that prays [for his people while] standing”; also known as John Johnson) was the first Native American to be ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.
Enmegahbowh was an Odawa from Canada who converted to Christianity from Midewiwin. In 1851, James Lloyd Breck began [...]

Remembering the Feast of Ascension

 
The Christian doctrine of the Ascension holds that Jesus‘ body ascended to heaven in the presence of his apostles following his resurrection, and that in heaven he sits at the Father’s right hand. Jesus died c. 30. In the Epistle to the Romans (c. 56-57),[1] Paul describes Christ as in heaven and in the abyss,[2] the earliest Christian reference to Jesus in heaven. The most influential account of the Ascension, and according to the two-source hypothesis the earliest[3], is in [...]

Native American Communities and Insights into Oppression

Kuddos to TheOoze.Tv
for their latest video dealing with questions of power, oppression and Christian complicity. I’m glad to see the conversation go beyond sugar-coated issues of spirituality and ecclesial gymnastics. 
 

 
Andrea describes how native groups and people of color used to organize themselves around common areas of oppression, but that this became an unhealthy way to [...]

Re-Membering Emergent Village: First Thoughts

(This is not a step by step retelling of the EV DC 09 weekend, but a brief reflection a week after the event. There will be more posts following this one. Photos thanks to Tim Snyder)

As I mentioned before, on April 24-26 I joined 24 sisters and brothers in a process that I refer as [...]

May 16: Pentecost Seattle: Faith and Justice for the 21st Century

Mustard Seed Associates invites you to a groundbreaking event taking place in Seattle. Coming together across denominations and theological differences, Seattle’s Christians - Evangelical, Emerging Church, Mainline and Catholic - will meet to converse in an open and hopeful way about the most urgent and changing needs of Seattle’s varied neighborhoods.
Pentecost Seattle: Faith and Justice [...]

Colorblind but not colorless.

Prepare to be confronted.
 

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Emergent Village 2.0 - Whatcha think? No, seriously what do you think?

 

The Future of Emergent Village - from the Emergent Village blog 
Last summer, the Emergent Village board put out a survey to see what Emergent felt itself becoming. The overwhelming result of that survey was that people wanted this network of generative friendships to continue. This continuation (and even broadening) of the friendship is taking multiple [...]

Holy Expansion: My Christian Carbon Footprint, Part 2 - Eliacín Rosario-Cruz - God’s Politics Blog

Holy Expansion: My Christian Carbon Footprint, Part 2 - Eliacín Rosario-Cruz - God’s Politics Blog

To expand or not to expand? That is the question. We are not about dogmas or doctrines, unless you are talking about the doctrine of expansionism.
One of the things I enjoy about our current wave of new Christian expression is [...]

Remembering Saints Perpetua, Felicitas and companions

The Lessons Appointed for Use on the Feast of Saints Perpetua, Felicitas and companions
Martyrs, suffered at Carthage, 7 March 203, together with three companions, Revocatus, Saturus, and Saturninus. The details of the martyrdom of these five confessors in the North African Church have reached us through a genuine, contemporary description, one of the most affecting accounts of the glorious warfare of Christian martyrdom in ancient times. By a rescript of Septimus Severus (193-211) all imperial subjects were forbidden [...]

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