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June 7, 2016 by Jed Dearing

A Whisper of Something Else

By Anna Berger No one in the world knows you’re here, Atop this ridge with your rose-flushed face and the dirt smudges up and down your faintly aching legs, you are alone. But God is no one because God is the One and the world is God’s and there’s a whisper of something else in […]

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May 23, 2015 by Aaron Wright

Why I Practice Morning Prayer

Two years ago this morning we were in a delivery room exhausted, a little scared and uncertain of our next move. My wife, Brooke, had gone into labor around 6:00am the day before. We had taken 12 weeks (TWELVE WEEKS!) of birthing classes to prepare us for what we hoped would be an unmedicated, natural […]

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June 13, 2014 by Karl Stevens

Learning to Be a New Kind of Artist: A Week at the “Art as a Spiritual Connection” Summer Camp

We’re sitting in the sanctuary of All Saints Church, in a circle of dim light.  It’s morning and we’ve finished doing yoga and put the mats away, and now Fabricia is talking.  There is a theme for this first day, as there will be for most of the days of the camp – connection and […]

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March 17, 2014 by Karl Stevens

Images for Lent

I’ve been creating these images as my Lenten discipline.  They’re purely electronic images, although I often take photos of sketches and make them part of the composite.  Devin Rodgers and I created a mandala during Fabricia Duell’s workshop at the Play Conference, and photos from the making and unmaking of the mandala provide the background […]

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January 6, 2014 by Praxis

7 Minutes of Silence

Sunday, January 19, 2014 @ 7pm St. Luke’s Episcopal Church – 320 Second St. – Marietta Parking via the 3rd Street entrance. Prayer and meditation for the relief of human suffering at home and far away.  Solidarity with those who have suffered as a result of wars and civil unrest as well as domestic violence […]

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November 7, 2013 by Praxis

The Idea of Rest at the Exodus Retreat

The youth of the diocese went on retreat this past weekend at Procter Camp and Conference Center.  Marilee Oldstone Moore, a senior from Christ Episcopal Church in Springfield, was the design team leader, and shaped the retreat around the idea of rest.  Rest is something that’s in short supply for students, and it only becomes […]

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August 26, 2013 by Karl Stevens

What Kind of God Exists?

In the second semester of my sophomore year of college – a semester when I was alone most of the time, and sad, mourning the end of a relationship and trying to figure out who I was without the girl who had left – during this depressing semester I took a class called “Philosophy of […]