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The Rev. Elvin Woodrow Smith |
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
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The Rev. Elvin Woodrow Smith died December 12, 2004, at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. |
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St. John’s, Clayton, Brings Interactive Theatrics to Lenten Worship |
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
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Sticks and stones, a shriveled Christmas tree, and an old coffin bring meaning of season home to worshippers. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 April 2005 )
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Episcopal Charities: Your Gifts at Work in Your Community |
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
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Episcopal Charities puts your gifts to work in your community. With
your help, we support agencies and parish outreach efforts in all five
deaneries in the Diocese of California. The map on the facing page
illustrates agencies and programs that receive financial support and
technical assistance from Episcopal Charities. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 April 2005 )
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“Sing-It-Yourself Superstar” a Hit |
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
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On Palm Sunday afternoon, the rafters of Oakland’s Parkway Theater
roared with the strains of “Hey-sanna, Ho-sanna, sanna, sanna, ho…” It
was the Pacific Church News’ first (and hopefully not last) “Sing-It-Yourself Superstar”: a showing of the 1974 film Jesus Christ Superstar.
The audience was invited to sing along throughout the film, while a
talented cast of live actors performed in sync to the film on the stage
just in front of the screen. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 April 2005 )
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Diocesan Priest Heads Children's Hospice |
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
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The Rev. John Golenski, Ed.D., no stranger to the hardest work in
healthcare, is the Executive Director at George Mark Children’s House
(GMCH), the first free-standing residential pediatric palliative care
facility in the United States. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 April 2005 )
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CDSP Announces New Director of the Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership |
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
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Church Divinity School of the Pacific has announced the Rev. Dr. John
L. Kater, Jr., Founding Director of the Center for Anglican Learning
and Leadership (CALL), is stepping down after serving nine years as
Director. Kater will continue serving as a distinguished and beloved
member of the faculty as Professor of Ministry Development teaching
Ethics in the Anglican Tradition, Issues in Christian Ministry and the
D. Min. seminar at CDSP. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 April 2005 )
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Ecumenism Can be Key to Breaking Violent Cycles, Says Kearon |
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
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A pyramid of violence, built on the fears of ordinary people and
topped by the terrorists who express those fears, is what needs to be
dismantled for peace and reconciliation in the world. And though people
of faith are part of the problem, they can also form a major component
of the solution, according to the Rev. Kenneth Kearon, newly appointed
Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, speaking in San Francisco
January 24.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 April 2005 )
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Bishop Search FAQ |
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
When will we get our new bishop?
Here is the timeline established by the Standing Committee for the process of discernment and election of our next bishop: |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 April 2005 )
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Committee Members Get Busy With Search and Transition |
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
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It was an unseasonably warm January day when I arrived at the tranquil
surroundings of the Mercy Center in Burlingame. The sunlight was
softened by live oak and dogwood. Squirrels darted around in the soft
grass collecting winter nuts. As I entered the front doors of the old
main building, the dark paneling and statuary of Jesus and Mary led me
to believe that I had come to cover a spiritual retreat. Under the
leadership of the diocesan Standing Committee, the committees charged
with selecting a new bishop and facilitating our episcopal transition
were gathered together as groups for the first time at this retreat. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 April 2005 )
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We Won’t Go Back! OASIS California Responds to Primates’ Moratorium on Blessing Same-sex Unions |
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
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Episcopalians across the Diocese of California have rejected a
“moratorium on public rites of blessing for same-sex unions and on the
consecration of any bishop living in a sexual relationship outside
Christian marriage” requested by leaders of the Anglican Communion. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 April 2005 )
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Response to the Primates’ Communiqué from the Chair of the ACC |
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
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As Chairman of the Anglican Consultative Council, I have received the
requests of the Primates Meeting to the ACC. Inevitably such requests
raise questions about the inter-relationship between the various
Instruments of Unity, which will need to be examined in the light of
the Windsor Report at our next meeting. |
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Explanatory note: The Anglican Consultative Council |
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
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[ACNS] In reference to the Primates Meeting communiqué, 24 February
2005:
There are four instruments of unity that serve the world wide family of
Anglican/Episcopal churches. They are: The Lambeth Conference (meets
every 10 years, for bishops); the Primates Meetings (regular meetings
for the senior archbishops and bishops of the 38 Provinces); the
Anglican Consultative Council (meeting every 3 years or so, includes
laity, bishops, priests, deacons); and the Archbishop of Canterbury in
his international role as primus inter pares (“first among equals”). |
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Primates Lower the Boom: Excerpts from The Anglican Communion Primates’ Meeting Communiqué, February |
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
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1. As Primates of the Anglican Communion and Moderators of the United
Churches, we gathered at the Dromantine Retreat and Conference Centre,
Newry, in Northern Ireland, between 20th and 25th February, 2005, at
the invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams.
Thirty-five of us were present at this meeting. We are extremely
grateful for the warmth of the welcome to Dromantine that we have
received from members of the Roman Catholic Society of African Missions
who run the Retreat Centre, and from the Church of Ireland, and
especially the Primate of All Ireland, the Most Rev. Robin Eames and
Lady Eames, who have been our hosts. |
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A Distant Thunder: The Anglican Communion in Peril |
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
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Our Commitment to Partnership in the Gospel: A Word to the Church from Executive Council:
Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
The Executive Council has begun its part in the consultative processes
called for by the Windsor Report. We recognize that it will be a long
pilgrimage as we press on to the goal of reconciliation and healing. We
urge all of the Episcopal Church to join us in this process of
considering the report and growing in communion with each other and
with the whole Anglican Communion. |
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Dialog: Does It Matter if the Anglican Communion Survives? NO |
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
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What is this “Communion” of which we are so fond? It’s not that I want
to see the breakup of the Anglican Communion. Such a familial divorce
would not easily be mended—it is only recently that rapprochement has
begun after nearly 1000 years of schism between the Pope and the
patriarchs of the various Orthodox Churches. At the end of the day,
nobody really likes a fight. |
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Dialog: Does It Matter if the Anglican Communion Survives? YES |
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
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On one hand, it’s true that the Anglican Communion is something of an
accident; when the Church of England gave birth to a particularly
English expression of Christian faith, it never occurred to anyone that
they were acting for anyone but English Christians! |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 April 2005 )
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A Covenant Statement of the House of Bishops |
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
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At press time, there was an explosion of activity in the Episcopal
Church and the Anglican Communion. The day we completed first edits of
this edition, a statement came out from the House of Bishops meeting in
rural eastern Texas. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 26 April 2005 )
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Episcopalians Booted from Council |
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Wednesday, 20 April 2005 |
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“Anglican primates agreed...that the U.S. Episcopal Church and the
Anglican Church of Canada would withdraw from a key body of the global
Anglican Communion after failing to overcome internal church
disagreements about the election of a gay bishop...and the blessing of
same-sex unions.” This was the news report of February 25, 2005. |
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Spirituality-At-Work: A Way Will Open |
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Monday, 06 December 2004 |
Funny how things work: early last Fall it had become clear to those of
us who have been overseeing the organizational life of Spirituality at
Work that it was time for SAW to make the transition from a formal
organization to a less-structured community. Perhaps, I thought, a door
was closing; perhaps, the Spirit was leading in another direction. We
prayed, those of us who'd been partnered in this enterprise, and, yes,
it did seem we were ready for the shift. Grateful for the work we'd
been given to do, we were ready to let the door close. While I felt
peaceful about letting "SAW the organization" go, I remained deeply
committed to "SAW, the vision." I wondered what this change would mean
for my own vocation to this work. The answer came a few months later:
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Last Updated ( Monday, 06 December 2004 )
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Sharing Wisdom: A Saint of God |
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Monday, 06 December 2004 |
I grew up loving the hymn, "I Sing a Song of the Saints of God." I was
inspired and challenged by its affirmation: "...they were all of them
saints of God, and I mean, God helping, to be one too." I'd like to
share the story of one of God's saints and a saintly practice which
recently inspired and challenged me to grow more fully into my
sainthood.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 06 December 2004 )
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Autumn Callings |
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Monday, 06 December 2004 |
The Very Rev. Dr. Lawrence Scott Hunter is the new rector of St.
Stephen's, Orinda. Formerly of St. John's Mission in La Verne, CA, Dr.
Hunter began at St. Stephen's in September.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 06 December 2004 )
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Wayward Women Return to the Church |
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Monday, 06 December 2004 |
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In 1946, Emma Flood Stebbins designed and crafted four statues
featuring women from the New Testament for the altarpiece of the newly
designed Chapel of the Nativity in Grace Cathedral. The statues were
painted by Sophie DeRosen, sister of the muralist John DeRosen, who
painted a majority of the murals in Grace Cathedral—including the
Nativity mural in the Chapel of the Nativity. |
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United Thank Offering: Expanding the Circle of Thankful People |
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Monday, 06 December 2004 |
We in this diocese are beginning to expand the circle of thankful
people! The United Thank Committee (UTO [national]) has done it by
awarding three grants in the past two years to the Diocese of
California. One went to True Sunshine Community Center, enabling them
to hire a director to coordinate all the programs of their Community
Center, serving Asian immigrant children in Chinatown. Another went to
the Episcopal Church of the Incarnation's Chinese Ministry to hire a
part time pastoral educator to be a bridge between the parish and the
neighborhood Chinese people. One also went to St. James Episcopal
Church for the creation of a no-fee Saturday morning preschool serving
at-risk children of diverse constituencies in the Richmond District of
San Francisco. In order for these grants to happen, we in the church
encourage daily prayers, offerings, and an awareness of the abundance
of God's blessings by dropping our small coins in our blue boxes.
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The Ordination of James Russell Tramel |
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Monday, 06 December 2004 |
It was an odd thing on July 4th to be giving up all the 21st-century
freedoms that we hold most dear: cell phones, house keys, sunglasses,
billfolds. I dropped mine into the trunk of the bishop's car for
safekeeping.
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Sojourn Chaplaincy Welcomes Eric Nefstead as the new Executive Director |
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Monday, 06 December 2004 |
Betsy Dixon, President of the Board of Overseers of Sojourn Chaplaincy
at San Francisco General Hospital, is pleased to announce the
appointment of the Rev. Eric Nefstead as the new Executive Director.
Nefstead follows the Rev. Nancy Eswein, who recently accepted the
position as Director of Field Education at the Church Divinity School
of the Pacific. Nefstead brings a breadth of chaplaincy experience to
the position. He completed CPE training at Mayo Medical Center in
Rochester, Minnesota, and Alta Bates Medical Center, in Berkeley. Since
then, he served as Chaplain and ACPE Supervisory Candidate at Alta
Bates, and within the St. Mary's Bay Area CPE Center, working primarily
at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco. Most recently, he
served as a Hospice Chaplain in Fort Myers, Florida, before returning
to the Bay Area to teach at CDSP this past spring. An October 6th
Celebration of New Ministry will be held at the hospital chapel, at
12:30, the Rt. Rev. William Swing, presiding.
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