| Sign this! |
[Jul. 3rd, 2008|08:42 pm] |
This statement is the first attempt in history at any kind of Interfaith document on the topic of animal welfare and we're trying to get another 100 signatures before our 1 year anniversary of releasing this proclamation last July in the next 24 hours. (I was one of the co-authors.) I've posted this before, but if you didn't sign and wish to, please do!
http://www.bestfriends.org/signproc |
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[Nov. 8th, 2007|08:00 am] |
If you consider yourself a person of faith (and are comfortable with "God" language), and support the cause of animal compassion and protection, you're encouraged to sign the Religious Proclamation for Animal Compassion
I had the rare privilege of being one of the co-authors of this Proclamation among a great group of interfaith leaders. We hope to get 1 million signatures. |
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[Oct. 31st, 2007|07:38 am] |
A very blessed All Hallow's Eve to you all!
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| Merry Second Day of Christmas! |
[Dec. 26th, 2006|06:57 pm] |
Hey, we still have 12 days left of Christmas, so technically, this isn't late. Heh.
Merry Christmas to all you wonderful people! Love, Rebecca & Charlotte |
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[Sep. 22nd, 2006|09:45 am] |
I'm about to do my third week of presentations for our Adult Education Forum at church on poverty and the Millennium Development Goals. It's been a really amazing thing to research, although learning about global poverty is truly horrifying. Here are some statistics I've gathered for my lectures::
-One billion people (one sixth of the world’s population) live in extreme poverty: less than a dollar a day
-over 800 million people go to bed every night hungry with empty stomachs
-500,000 mothers die in childbirth annually
(1 in 3500 in N. America, but 1 in 16 in sub-saharan Africa)
-40 million people living with AIDS/HIV: more than half in Africa.
For ex: In Zambia, 12% of the children have been orphaned by HIV/AIDS
-a child dies every 3 seconds from preventable, treatable causes
-Malaria causes one million deaths a year
-2 million children die annually from infections spread through dirty water
Soooo...what do we do about it?? I'm telling my congregation to join Episcopal ONE, but anyone can join the ONE Campaign...this is an opportunity for world wide service, the likes of which this planet has not seen before. This gives me hope. |
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| Spam I am |
[Sep. 19th, 2006|10:18 pm] |
My favorite spam titles currently in my spam folder:
witchcraft insinuation
historically blunt
Better future, well timbered
slaughter only child
money is our god
slipper funky
alienate federalism
if you are not active sexually delete this email
gelatin
Pony rides-25 cents-2 for 50!
Better life, whale feed
People Laugh at you? |
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[Jun. 30th, 2006|08:46 am] |
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On a shinier, happier note: the boyfriend and I went the Bauhaus/NIN show on Wednesday. I got rained on and danced till my feet ached. Trent is still beautiful. It was what a concert should be. |
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| A Letter |
[Jun. 28th, 2006|10:20 am] |
This letter was written to my fellow Episcopalians out of anguish following my participation at General Convention 2006. I needed to say something because I feel I can no longer do nothing. Maybe something as small as a letter will help.
http://franciscan-anglican.com/letter.htm |
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| General Convention |
[Jun. 22nd, 2006|08:55 am] |
I've been a total absentee lately on LJ. Life's been so busy, but the General Convention of the Episcopal Church is FINALLY OVER here in Columbus. I'm exhausted...also bit down about a number of things we did, but excited about some others.
I'm sad:
-We adopted a resolution in response to the Windsor report that says we're not going to consecrate any Bishops "whose manner of life" would "create problems and further strain" in the wider Anglican Communion. The subtext is that we won't consecrate more gay Bishops, at least for awhile, since the Anglican Communion wants to kick the U.S. church out for it. Pheh. Cowardly and unjust.
-The House of Bishops rejected the resolution my organization (enaw.org) put forward to have a liturgy for the loss of a companion animal written for use. Feels like a slap in the face after all our work this year for animals.
I'm happy we:
-Elected the first woman to oversee a Church, the Rt. Rev. Katherine Jeffers-Schori to be our Presiding Bishop, despite the 'strain' that will probably cause us
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/5093256.stm
-didn't "repent" for having consecrated the first openly gay Bishop, the Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson, nor did we agree to ceasing same-sex Blessings (despite the extreme pressure to do so)
-elected a woman to be the next President of the House of Deputies
-voted for and responded to the Millenium Development Goals to eradicate extreme poverty in the world
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Now, I need to write a sermon for Sunday that actually makes sense of this Convention! |
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| Vigil Sermon |
[Apr. 18th, 2006|12:28 pm] |
By request, I'm posting my homily from the Easter Vigil. I preached a narrative in costume and character, as Mary Magdalene.
( Sermon ) |
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| Lenten Humor |
[Mar. 3rd, 2006|08:19 pm] |
This was posted to a clergy listserv I'm on. I'm using it in my sermon on Sunday and I can't stop singing it.
Sung to the tune "My Favorite Things" from the Sound of Music:
Sackcloth and ashes and days without eating,
Mortification and wailing and weeping,
A hair shirt that scratches, a nettle that stings -
These are a few of my favorite things!
Penitence, flagellants, memento mori,
Spending nights sleeping on rocks in a quarry,
The sound of a cloaked solemn cantor who sings -
These are still more of my favorite things!
Tossing and turning and yearning, I'm spurning!
Passions aflame like an ember-day burning,
Corpus and carnis and wild drunken flings -
Forsaken are they for my favorite things!
When it's Christmas,
When the tree's lit,
When the cards are sent...
I simply remember my favorite things -
And then I can't waaaaaaaaait 'til Lent! |
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| Lewis be ashamed of me |
[Jan. 7th, 2006|02:33 pm] |
I'm a lazy bum. Really. I am giving two lectures on C.S. Lewis at St. John's tomorrow and the following week for our Adult Education class (in the wake Narnia fever). Because I am soooo lazy...I usually just throw an outline together and speak from that, but the caliber of lectures we've had lately is so high, that I felt I needed to write out an entire lecture word for word. And it's so much work and it takes such precision and I dislike the research and time involved so much that it's made me realize I really am a bum. But, I think I'm done now. It should take 20-30 minutes to read through it, then I'll have to fill the rest of the time with discussion. I've really grown accustomed to doing 10 minute sermons.
And to think I have to do this again next week.
*cries my lazy eyes out* |
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| The Book of Daniel |
[Jan. 6th, 2006|04:23 pm] |
"The Book Of Daniel" premeires tonight on NBC...at 9pm (at least here). It's a new show about an Episcopal Priest with a dysfunctional family and a Vicodin habit. I've been holding off on judgment until I see it, but if you see it, I'd like to hear your reaction to it. I'm hopeful it will be really great. It's caused a bit of controversy already with protests from the Religious Right.
Here's NBC's page on it:
http://www.nbc.com/The_Book_Of_Daniel/
Happy Epiphany! |
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| Now bring us some figgy pudding |
[Dec. 18th, 2005|12:02 am] |
Today I wore the hideous "Christmas jumper" my mother sent, a la Bridgit Jones, to go Christmas caroling with the youth group. Unfortunately, I did not meet a Colin Firth while doing so...which is really the only reason I wore it.
But besides looking the part, I sang the part till I lost my voice. We sang for 2 straight hours at a local nursing home...the old folks were all happy and giggly (okay, those that were lucid were). They loved listening and seeing the kids and little Charlotte who held the jingle bells and actually jingled them. (Yes, that's pretty gaggingly cute by anyone's standards.) A few of them even 'danced' to Jingle Bell Rock. It was such a small thing, but for some reason, it felt incredibly good. It was like we were teaching the youth to think about people other than themselves while simultaneously bringing a smile to the faces of some very lonely people. It was more fun than I expected. Afterwards we took the youth out to dinner and I gave them little Christmas candy goodie bags that I had made. They were all excited about the chocolate and the cherry flavored candy canes, and it struck me: sometimes it takes very little to make other people feel good. |
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[Dec. 11th, 2005|11:35 pm] |
I am sooo addicted to "Grey's Anatomy." I haven't loved a TV show this much in a long time. It's also the perfect way to end my long, insanely busy Sundays. I also cry during EVERY episode.
Favorite line from tonight:
"BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT JESUS WOULD FREAKIN DO!!!"
~Izzie
But usually Dr. Bailey or Christina have the best lines. |
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| Narnia Joy! |
[Dec. 8th, 2005|08:29 pm] |
I just bought my tickets (online) for The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.... Woohoo! My friend and I are going to brave the crowds tomorrow night and hope to get there early enough for a good seat.
CS Lewis is my hero (one of them anyway). My dad gave me a beautiful hard back edition of the Chronicles as my gift upon my ordination to the transitional Diaconate. And we Episcopalians finally put him in our Holy Day calendar (Lesser Feasts and Fasts) in 2003. (That's a bit like becoming canonized as a saint for Anglicans, with much, much less rigor.) The first time we attempted to get Lewis into the Feast calendar however, it was defeated because, among other things, Lewis said, as an Anglican back in the 1950's, that he didn't think women should become priests. I thought that was silly because, hello, EVERYONE said that back in the 1950's.
I soooo hope it's as good as I am anticipating and that it will be faithful to the book!! |
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