Monthly Archives: October 2012

After the Storm

Posted on October 31, 2012 by deborahmeister

When it was all over, they walked down twenty flights of stairs in the dark. My father, my stepmother, my sister, their dogs. Out of the gleaming glass building, transparent to the storm. Into the watery streets of lower Manhattan, … Continue reading →

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Thunderbolts

Posted on October 30, 2012 by ronatstalbansdc

I wish I were profound enough to say something meaningful about Hurricane Sandy. I’m not, but it does remind me of a storm-related story which I think tells me something about ancient myths and conceptions of gods. You are familiar, … Continue reading →

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Out on a Limb

Posted on October 29, 2012 by stalbansparish

Hope is the thing with feathers. I am not now, nor have I ever been, a big fan of the poetry of Miss Dickinson.  It isn’t that I don’t see its value; it just doesn’t burn its imagery into my … Continue reading →

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The Touch of Liturgy

Posted on October 26, 2012 by matthewhanisian

A couple of years ago, a group of recent graduates from Virginia Theological Seminary, who now are priests all over the country, created a Facebook page where we could ask questions of one another, share our successes and failures, or … Continue reading →

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What is true?

Posted on October 25, 2012 by sonyasutton

What better time than at the height of a presidential election season is there to meditate on the word “truth”?  What is true?  Which of those deeply held beliefs, firmly rooted in us, could we name as true? Truth:  at … Continue reading →

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Ancient faces

Posted on October 24, 2012 by deborahmeister

At lunch last week, I was reminded of some pieces of art that I particularly love, but have not seen since I left the New York area. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum, they are a set of portraits taken from … Continue reading →

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Carbon

Posted on October 23, 2012 by ronatstalbansdc

I’ve been reflecting lately in the course of contemplating the idea of transubstantiation on the processes of digestion and assimilation. I’ll write about transubstantiation later, but as to digestion and assimilation it is fascinating to me of late how the … Continue reading →

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Error Message

Posted on October 22, 2012 by stalbansparish

What really happened was… There’s more to it… What I was trying for was… Every time something doesn’t go according to plan we have an explanation, some mitigating circumstance, further illumination of the situation.  And we tell ourselves that this … Continue reading →

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He Will Proclaim All Things to Us

Posted on October 19, 2012 by matthewhanisian

Henry Martyn is the saint we celebrate today in the life of the church–a relatively recent saint having died only in 1812.  Martyn’s life was that of a missionary, spending a majority of his ordained life abroad, chiefly in India … Continue reading →

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Join the Club

Posted on October 18, 2012 by sonyasutton

Laughter Clubs, a form of yoga, began developing in the 1990’s and now form a movement with over 8.000 groups of people gathering around the world, usually in the morning in a park, to simply laugh as a form of … Continue reading →

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