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This Invisible Bond
A Word from Canon Leighton in the October 22, 2017, Adventurer When I’m at our annual family reunion on Cape Cod, the inevitable moment arises when I forget the name of one of my distant cousins. I sidle up to my mother and ask her under my breath to supply the missing name, confident in her […]
Never the Final Word
A Word from Canon Smalley in the October 15, 2017, Adventurer Recently as Paula and I walked, we talked about the nature of things and the presence of grief and loss in everything. You may think this sounds depressing and that you’re not interested in walking with us; but it wasn’t, because we know that […]
Yom Kippur & Jesus by Heidi Kinner
This is the holiest day of the year in Judaism, so much so that it is often simply called “The Day.” It is the culmination of The Days of Awe, the time when people try to tip the scales of God’s judgment in their favor by making amends to people they have wronged, by charitable […]
What Is the Bible Doing to Me?
A Word from Canon Hicks in the October 1, 2017, Adventurer Reading and studying the Bible, if we’re not careful, can downgrade into mere knowledge acquisition. Sometimes, we can avoid a true encounter with the living, active word of God, settling for the much easier enterprise of collecting Bible facts. For example, I can know […]
Dean’s Bulletin Board 8.02.2017
This upcoming Sunday I begin my Dean’s Class series on tough questions. I received a number of wonderful questions and it was hard to reduce them down to four. Even so, those of you who had questions dealing with the authority of Scripture or understanding Holy Communion, will be glad to know that these issues […]
Editor’s Pick: Richard Kew in The Living Church
Evangelicals: The Missing Piece in the Episcopal Church By Richard Kew in The Living Church [Ed. note: Richard Kew was a 2011 Lenten preacher here at the Advent.] Episcopal evangelicals are a species seldom seen these days. This isn’t new; on the American shore we’ve had a bit of a bumpy ride ever since the […]
Between Two Advents
A Word from Canon Hicks from the June 25/July 2, 2017 Adventurer I absolutely love our stained glass windows. Many who have been a part of the Advent for decades will tell you (and I think they’re right) that there’s a lifetime of reflection and depth in them. I was recently pondering the two big windows […]
Editor’s Pick: When a Loved One Who May Not Be a Christian Dies
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Sarah Condon Meets Fleming Rutledge
Ed. Note: Fleming Rutledge was a Lenten preacher at the Advent in 1994 and 2000; Sarah Condon spoke at our Parish Retreat in 2015. They both spoke at the recent Tenth Anniversary Mockingbird Conference in New York. For several years now, people have been saying to me, “Sarah, you’ve got to read the Rev. Fleming […]
A Resurrection Poem by John Goodman
[Above: Imogen, c. 1888, by Herbert Gustave Schmalz] A Couplet from Shakespeare by John Goodman “Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust.” – Cymbeline, act IV, scene ii Unless we place the corpse on ice, ‘til future science sets the price Of plus ultra; such that when the […]