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		<title>2nd Visioning Event</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our 2nd visioning event will take place on Saturday, March 10th, at 3:30 p.m.  Everyone is welcome, and we will prioritize and set goals for our sharing God&#8217;s Reign with our communities.]]></description>
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		<title>Vision Quest</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[DREAM BIG!]]></description>
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		<title>Occupy Wall Street&#8211;30 days and counting</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 02:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday the Occupy Wall Street movement came up in three separate conversations&#8211;and I was not the first to bring it up in any of these. In the morning, in a Bible study with a group of 13 and 14-year-olds on the beatitudes from Jesus&#8217; Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:1-12), Jesus&#8217; countercultural, revolutionary images of the weak inheriting the earth and those who mourn being comforted, and suffering for the sake of righteousness, reminded some of the calls from Occupy Wall Street. In the afternoon the Bishop noted the very diaconal nature of the movement&#8217;s prophetic and inclusive character. And in the evening over dinner, I noted to friends that in some ways, the Occupy Wall Street movement reminded me of the early days of the Jesus movement&#8211;a collection of loosely alligned communities of faith, each with their own character and yet at the core, united in one dream. Of course there are many differences between the early Church and Occupy Wall Street et al, and I haven&#8217;t heard many of the members of the protests waxing theologically about their movement, but it is exciting to me that we are talking about Occupy Wall Street and frankly, to me, looking at Occupy Wall Street in theological terms makes every bit as much sense as looking at it in political or other lens. To me, the issues mobilizing Occupy Wall Street (and Occupy Boston, and Providence, and on and on&#8230;) are as much spiritual issues as anything else. Social and economic &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.stjohnsholbrookma.org/?p=192">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Field Notes/Oct. 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(from 10/2011 newsletter) “So where’s the deacon this week,” a parishioner asked.  “Seems like the deacon comes and goes—sometimes here, sometimes gone.” “And what’s a deacon, anyway?” asks another parishioner.  “I’ve been an Episcopalian all my life and I never ran into a deacon before.” If you are confused about who I am and what I am doing here, or not doing here—you are not alone.  Deacons are said to be both the oldest ordained order in the church and also a very modern invention.  Deacons claim the naming of the seven to assist the apostles in Acts 6 as our beginning; and throughout the history of the church, the order has been reconfigured according to the needs of the times.  Deacons were relaunched as a full and separate order in the Diocese of Massachusetts ten years ago this month. Deacons are generally associated with service of some kind, but how the title is assigned varies among theological and denominational traditions. In many denominations, including the Episcopal Church, deacons are clergy; in others, including the Lutheran denominations, deacons are members of the laity. Famous deacons include Stephen, the first Christian martyr (Acts 6:1-8:3); Phillip the Evangelist, baptizer of the Ethiopian Eunuch (Acts 8:26-40); St. Francis of Assisi; Charles Lutwidge Dodson (pen name, Lewis Carroll); and David Pendleton Oakerhater, first Native American named a saint in the Anglican Communion. My work in the church is unpaid—like most parishioners, I maintain a fulltime job “in the world.”  However, I avoid describing the &#8230; <a class="more-link" href="http://www.stjohnsholbrookma.org/?p=165">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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