Bishop Marc

Earth Day and Wooden Rings

nobody@vox.com(Bishop Marc) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:12:13 -0700

A Brazilian friend told me, as the Diocese of California was moving towards its new Companion Diocese relationship with Curitiba, in the southern Brazilian state of Parana, that many Brazilian Christians wear a dark-colored wooden ring on the ri...

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Olympic Protest

nobody@vox.com(Bishop Marc) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 07:19:53 -0700

The best manners, the most respectful posture towards another in the range of our relationships is one that sheds light – love – both outward and inward. Voices that say that San Franciscans, Parisians, all those living where the Olympic torch i...

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Witness at Lambeth

nobody@vox.com(Bishop Marc) — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:39:58 -0700

Just after the Windsor Report came out I noticed that a certain interpretation of the report was already taking on a reality of its own. Just as the report itself, a document produced by dedicated leaders within the Communion but which has taken o...

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A Communion Covenant Conversation

nobody@vox.com(Bishop Marc) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 11:57:43 -0700

EpiscoPod has a new episode featuring a conversation that I had with a church historian, a sociologist, and a theologian shortly after the release of the St. Andrew's Draft of the Anglican Communion Covenant. On February 14, 2008, I sat down in ...

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What is eaten in one week: a perspective

nobody@vox.com(Bishop Marc) — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:41:12 -0800

The following came in an email from Jon Spangler. There are many versions of this out there, so the original source is unknown by me, but thanks to Jon for sending this along. Take a good look at the diet of each country and the cost of what is e...

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Remembering Mahatma Gandhi

nobody@vox.com(Bishop Marc) — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:42:28 -0800

I have been quoting the brilliant Arundhati Roy for several years now to the effect that the non-violent movement, begun by Mahatma Gandhi, is in a crisis – the leaders of the world, particularly the United States (and her own India) have learned...

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Christmas Prayer

nobody@vox.com(Bishop Marc) — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 08:42:07 -0800

Loving God, the Winter Solstice indicates a growing shadow that many of us find mirrored in our own lives and in the world around us. We long for the birth of the Messiah, once again, in our world, in our hearts. We are grateful today for Mary a...

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guest blogger jasper goldberg

nobody@vox.com(Bishop Marc) — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 23:11:19 -0800

jasper is a high school student and member of our saviour, mill valley, where i heard him eloquently participate along the line of the post below regarding the heart of the episcopal church and our place in the anglican communion. i was deeply m...

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Leaping in the Womb, Questioning in the Prison

nobody@vox.com(Bishop Marc) — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:07:24 -0800

When I was an undergraduate at the University of Tennessee there was a restaurant called “The Bahoo Container.” The interior of the restaurant was light, airy, with high ceilings, clean-lined windows, and beautiful batiked fabric swooping in the ...

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Learning from Macbeth about Kings

nobody@vox.com(Bishop Marc) — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:52:24 -0800

It was a happy conjunction that on the eve of Reign of Christ Sunday, Sheila and I made our first visit to the San Francisco Opera, to hear Verdi’s “Macbeth.” First Shakespeare, and then Verdi with his powerful translation of central ideas in th...

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