Bishop Marc’s Friends

I AM

nobody@vox.com(Bishop Marc) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:18:36 -0700

During the Lambeth Conference we are studying the Gospel of John in small groups. Particular attention is being paid to the “I Am” statements. Enormous attention has been paid to seven of these statements, each of which uses a metaphor to speak of...

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episcopal evolution

nobody@vox.com(Bishop Marc) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:15:56 -0700

We have been on retreat with the Archbishop of Canterbury for the last three days. He spoke to the bishops in a series of five meditations on the meaning of the episcopacy. Some interesting things happened in my little life-world while I was movin...

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episcopal evolution

nobody@vox.com(Bishop Marc) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:15:54 -0700

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back to the future in wales

nobody@vox.com(Bishop Marc) — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:01:36 -0700

While in Wales we were taken to St. Fagan’s: the Welsh National History Museum. The centerpiece of our visit was to a restored medieval church that had been moved about fifty miles from its original location. As part of the restoration the large...

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the village fete as a paradigm of post-modern refuge

nobody@vox.com(Bishop Marc) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:47:09 -0700

One of the most fun times I’ve had in quite a long time was attending a village fete held at a medieval church in the parish served by the Leonards, my hosts in Wales. The gentle good humor, the mutual support given to one another, the sense of co...

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Pre-Lambeth Hospitality

nobody@vox.com(Bishop Marc) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:04:33 -0700

I have been in Wales, in the Diocese of Llandaf, for the last five days, enjoying what is called "pre-Lambeth Hospitality." The other non-UK bishops in Llandaf were from Mexico, Australia, and also from our own Diocese of Milwaukee. Those three bi...

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Wisdom Christianity for Extraverts

nobody@vox.com(Bishop Marc) — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:48:50 -0700

On May 4 of this year I presided at the Eucharist closing the Anglican East Bay Cursillo weekend here in San Francisco. I am a veteran of Cursillo, a short course in Christianity that has its origins in the Roman Catholic Church of Spain. The w...

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Exquisite Faith

nobody@vox.com(EpiCal) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:09:04 -0700

Qom, Iran, is a world apart from the rest of the country. The world center for Shi’a education, Qom is populated by seminarians and clerics; devotion to study of Qur’an is the way of life. The fundamentalist clerics who have ruled Iran since the ...

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All Good Things...

nobody@vox.com(EpiCal) — Tue, 13 May 2008 00:25:49 -0700

So, this will be weird. I’ve written tons of stuff to post, but the one thing that I never really understood until half way through the trip is that Iran has mostly 56.6 k dial-up (remember that) and it goes through frequent spats of downtime. I ...

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Day One: Tehran

nobody@vox.com(EpiCal) — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:35:43 -0700

Salaam! Well we made it out of the airport and I think that I finally got to my room at 6 a.m. At about 6:15, there was a really loud crash on the street 14 floors below. I looked out the window and a police car had hit a station wagon. Both were...

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