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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Selden B. Hill – A Tour of the Brick
Church at Wambaw- St. James-Santee Parish Episcopal Church- 3.2.2018.</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">
<i>This was originally recorded, and the text below is a transcript of that
recording. Transcript has been lightly edited for readability. </i></span><br />
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Museum at McClellanville, SC. Welcome to the Brick Church at Wambaw or St.
James-Santee Parish Episcopal Church. I'd like to tell you a little bit about the
church building since this year is a wonderful occasion in its history. This
year, 2018, our church building will turn two-hundred and fifty years old. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Two-hundred and fifty years is
longer than America has been a nation, and that is a great reason to celebrate
the building of this particular building. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the church building is that old, our
parish is much older.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>St. James-Santee
Parish is the second oldest parish in the state of South Carolina.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only downtown Charleston is a little older
than we are.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I want to tell you a little bit
about the parish first and then we'll get to the present church building. Our
parish was founded in 1687 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>when a few
Europeans came and settled here at a place called Jamestown. Even today,
there's a little small community inland from here named Jamestown. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">There were two boatloads of French
that came into Charleston to settle there, and u they quickly discovered that
they weren't wanted there. Onboard these two ships were artisans and craftsmen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The problem was that, in Charleston, there
were already English artisans and craftsmen. Any time<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a community or a colony is established, the
first people to come in are the craftsmen and the tradespeople who establish
shops and build things.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Well, here come two boatloads of
French to do the same thing. The English, who had first come in 1670 –
seventeen years earlier- <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>didn't need <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>or want any competition in Charleston so they
decided among themselves to send away "those French" as they called
them. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The French settlers were creating
a problem so the English decided to send them out into the wilderness - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>thirty, forty miles away from Charleston onto
the banks of the Santee [River].</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Now, this created a great problem
for the French settlers because most of those [people] had soft hands. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A lot of them were shopkeepers who had never
grown anything in their lives. They'd never planted corn or potatoes or the
basics of life. They'd never chopped trees down. They'd never built a home, and
they didn't have a lot of money.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">It was a great challenge to “those
French” to establish a settlement there on the Santee. We all think about planters
sitting on horses watching other people do the building and the farming. Well,
these men, their wives, and their children had to work on each end of a whipsaw
and to cut logs into timber in order to build homes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Their first nights on the Santee
were spent under sails they had brought from Charleston. The little boat sails were
stretched between trees. If it hadn't have been for the Native Americans in the
area, the Sewee and the Santee Indians, those French wouldn't have made it
because they were almost starving to death. It was some time before they even
had a loaf of bread. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">It was the Native Americans who
came and taught them how to plant crops and how to cut the trees and how to
build some little structures to sleep in. They did prosper, though. They made
it. They survived. The second and third generation did<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>real well because the land was perfect for
growing crops such as indigo and cotton and, later, rice. They not only
survived but they prospered. Those French end up with fine homes in Charleston,
being accepted in Charleston, and marrying into a lot of the prominent families
there.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">We have ties into all of the
communities in Charleston and this end of Charleston County as well as the larger
parish. Our parish, St. James-Santee Parish, starts at Awendaw Creek and comes
up to the mouth of the Santee. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At one
time, it also went straight inland. Nobody knew what was back there. The lines
just went on indefinitely. Later, other parishes were broken off from the
parish. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">When the French settled at
Jamestown they established a church there. It was a Huguenot church - they were
French. Some time passed and they petitioned the English to create a parish -
St. James-Santee Parish- and it was done in 1704*. Of course, with the English
being in charge of the country, it was their country, and the church that was
established was an Anglican church. Over the years, it has evolved into the
Episcopal church we celebrate today.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The French were later joined by
some English. When you stand in our church today all the land on the backside
of the church is called French Santee. All the land on the frontside is English
Santee. The dividing line is where Hampton plantation is today. Everything
above Hampton is French, everything below was settled by English and Irish-Scots.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Back behind the church were great
families like the Porchers, the Ravenels, the Gaillards, and the Bonneaus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many other French families settled there as
well. On the lower portion were the Rutledges, Pinckneys,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>McGregors and McClellans as well as many
other families. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">They got along very well. It's
often said that the French came into what is now the back of the building,
entering through a door there, and the English came in through the front door.
It's kind of implied that perhaps it's because they didn't get along well.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">It's not so. There was a road that
swept down to the backside of the church and that's how the French came to church.
The English came on the present road called the King's Highway. They came in
that way because that's the closest place to the parking lot [the area where
they lived]. They came in and sat together in church and there were many great marriages
between the English and French communities.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Our church has box pews. Most
people who come and visit<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ask two
questions. Why is the church here in the middle of nowhere and why does it have
box pews? The answer to the first question is that it was not in the middle of
nowhere. It was in the middle of the Rice Kingdom, a powerful bunch of people who
lived in this community and this was their church close to their homes. It was
not too far from the great centers of Charleston or Georgetown and it was near
their homes- close enough for them to come and worship. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The other question…. When you came
to church in the wintertime, it was cold! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The box pews kept the drafts away from the
family. Some coals in a pan could be brought in to warm the pews and blankets
to keep you warm as well. The main thing, though, was that the pews were a way
of bringing revenue into the church. You rented the pews and for a fee you got
to sit closer to the front if your fee was high enough and you could see the
minister much better from the front pews. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The other question about the pews
of course is, well, they're box pews. Can you see over the walls? How do you
see the priest? Well, that's no problem. Sit down and look around. You can look
right over them and see the priest because the priest is standing up looking
down at the pew.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Families gathered there. I like to
sit in the pews and imagine which family sat here because we had great
families. This church had among its members, people who ran for president and
the Pinckney brothers. We had Thomas Lynch, who signed the Declaration of
Independence and went to church here. Eliza Lucas Pinckney <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gave us indigo. She and her family went to
church here. Great [figures] from colonial history came to church here. It's
said that George Washington on his 1791 trip stopped off at the church. I don't
know whether he went to a service there or just stopped at the church. We don't
know for sure but it's said that he did. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Great men have come to church here
and great ladies. When you look back at those people who came out of this
congregation and what they did for the state of South Carolina, they were the
people who established this state and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>went to Washington and helped form our nation.
When you have a young man from St. James-Santee who puts his name on the
Declaration of Independence - pretty powerful people. We're proud of those
people who came out of our community.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The building we're celebrating
this year is unlike a lot of the churches that you see throughout the South -
the beautiful white clapboard houses with the steeples. This is a colonial
period church. Many of the churches during the Colonial period are beautiful
and have a unique style <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but they were
also built the way they were because the builders wanted a church made of
materials which would require less maintenance. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Our church is made of strong
brick. The wooden construction is of cedar and cypress. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look at the beautiful vaulted ceiling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It gives the building absolutely magnificent
acoustics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The builders wanted beauty
but they also didn't want to spend a lot of time maintaining a church. They
wanted one that would last. Because this church is celebrating 250 years, I'd
have to say they were successful in building a church that would last.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Today I believe it has another 250
years to go because it's in as good a shape today as it's ever been. Look
around our church at the wonderful craftsmanship. These craftsmen were black
men, probably enslaved Africans. These were craftsmen who <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>had learned boat building and other trades
because some of that is evident in the construction, up in the ceiling of the
church. The way that they fashioned the vaulted ceiling is very reminiscent of
a ship itself. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Brick masons of extraordinary
talent<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>formed the bricks. Some of them
right here on site. Others were imported in the holds of ships - ballast bricks.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These were used for the outer structure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Look at the columns that surround
the church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those bricks were made
onsite. For the first five feet they go straight up as an arrow. Then they
taper in slightly. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When you stand back
from the columns, they look like they're tapered from the base to the top but
they aren’t. The first five feet are straight and all the rows of brick that go
around were of the same dimensions. Once it started to taper that brick mason
had to recalculate that row, reform his molds, make the bricks for that row,
put them in place, and then calculate the next row.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">To keep it from having a jagged
edge they would take and put the bed of mortar down, put the brick in place,
tap the back end, and slant the front edge backwards a little bit so it'd have
a nice incline all the way up. If you were able to look inside those columns
you'll see that these are not ordinary rectangular bricks. They're cast a curve
on the front and they're pie-shaped bricks. They go into the column almost to
the center. There's only a small opening in there that had to be filled.
They're strong, stout columns, and they're going to stay with us for many, many
years.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The style of them are very
reminiscent of another church near Yemassee in the lower part of the state. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s known as Old Sheldon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At Old Sheldon, the columns are very much
like ours but being a little biased towards Brick Church I think that the brick
mason here had a little bit more talent than the other man in the lower part of
the state because ours look like they were just built yesterday. It's amazing. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I'd like to take you on a quick
walk around the graveyard at Brick Church. I was instructed years ago that
there's a difference between a cemetery and a graveyard. A cemetery is
freestanding. A graveyard is attached to a church. I didn't know that. I used
to call this the cemetery but I was corrected. This is a graveyard.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">In our graveyard there are just a
few graves. The reason for that is most people during the colonial period were
buried on their properties at their plantations. If you go to the plantations
nearby everyone has a cemetery there for the families that owned it and for the
slaves that lived there.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Here, though, when this church was
built 250 years ago they started burying a few families here. There are some
notables in the crowd. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go to the left
side of the graveyard. If you face the church and go to the far fence, there's
the McClellan family there. Among those few stones that belong to that
particular clan is Archibald James McClellan, one of the founders of
McClellanville, the little community that's near the church today.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">He and Richard Tillia Morrison
teamed up and they leased and sold some lots that would become the little
village of McClellanville. There are also some interesting stones on the other
side. One is the resting place of Reverend Samuel Fenner Warren and his son,
Colonel Samuel Warren. These two men were important to the history of this
parish.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Reverend Warren was a very popular
man. He married people, he buried people, he saw to the sick and the dying. He
was loved from St. James-Santee Parish all the way up to Georgetown. He was
greatly respected. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">When the war came with England he
had the bad luck of being in England visiting family and had to make a big
decision. His decision was, "What do I do? Do I stay in my homeland or do
I come back to my adopted home?" He decided to come back to America.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">When the family in England heard
of his decision they were furious with him. They were even madder at his son,
Sam, because Sam decided he was going to fight the homeland and stand with the
Patriots. Two old maid aunts raised that boy over in England. They were furious
at his decision and they wrote him a nasty note and said, "We hope you get
an arm or leg blown off in the war."</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Sure enough, he was down at the
Siege of Savannah and was wounded in the leg and they had to remove his leg to
save his life. He took his leg and put it in a container of alcohol and shipped
it to the old girls. I believe that Colonel Warren got even. They got their
wish. He was quite a character.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">We have some modern characters
buried here. We have Peter Manigault, a great newspaper man and comes from an
old Huguenot family. He and his son Pierre have been great stewards of the land
that surround Brick Church and more land that's on the Santee. For generations
and generations they seem to have [children] who feel the same way about
protecting the land in this particular region. We were lucky to have the
Manigaults in our community.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Most of the land surrounding the
Brick Church today is protected land in some kind of conservation easement so
it'll never be built on. The 100 acres directly across from the front of the
church was purchased by the Village Museum and later deeded to the Brick Church
Restoration Committee to protect the viewscape of our church.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">It will always be the same view.
If you stand at the front door of this church 100 years from now you'll still
be looking at pine trees and not developed land. That was the goal of the
purchase and in the conservation of the land that surrounds the church. Most of
the land from the Santee all the way down the Old Georgetown Road that runs in
front of the church is protected in some fashion today. It'll always be what
you see today. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">The road itself, the King's
Highway as it was better known, is today called the Old Georgetown Road, but at
one time it was the King's Post Road, the mail went up and down this road. Any
man or woman high or low in station used this road, whether you walked or you
rode in the finest carriage. That's the road that took you from Charleston to
all the northern cities. That's the road that took everybody from up north to
Charleston, the great city of the south.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Everybody has used the road and
today it's on the National Register as is the building itself. Both are
protected forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can't do anything
to the road or to the church that would harm its present condition. That's a
good thing that we protect it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Today, the
continuing congregation of St. James-Santee Parish Episcopal Church has
stewardship of the building and is strongly supported by the Brick Church
Restoration Committee – a non-profit. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Even though St. James-Santee
Church in McClellanville has stewardship of the building and Charleston County
has stewardship of the King's Highway, we are just that. We're stewards. We are
the people that have been selected to take care of this historic church
building and the King's Highway. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">If we all can work together and do
some intelligent preservation and protection of the land that surrounds the
church, the church will have a great history to come. And, it’s not all just in
the past because it still serves the community. Brick Church is the one
building in the parish and in this end of Charleston County that unites us all.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Granted there are parts of the history with
both good and bad sides, but the church building roots us all. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">Families who have been here for
generations and generations still consider this their mother church. It doesn't
matter whether you go to the Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist or Episcopal
church or if you are like me, you don’t go as often as you should.. You still
can feel the same about this church <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>building when you go in there. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">I have watched many people visit
the church from somewhere else. The thing they comment on the most is how it
makes them feel - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How they feel when
they sit in those pews. It's still a sacred place.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri;">* More likely, 1706- Church Act</span></div>
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The Rev. Dr. Jennie Clarkson Olbrychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010818278363363876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979592039554662207.post-68347244381814339962018-01-01T17:06:00.000-05:002018-03-27T11:05:15.140-04:00Letting it rest for a bit or maybe not<i>UPDATE: We are back in action! With addition of a new web site for the Brick Church , there is a need for a place where we can post longer text articles. The old is made new again! </i><br />
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Several years back, I took my ancient and quite beaten up Volkswagen to the dealer as a trade-in for a newer car. This is how the conversation went..<br />
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Car Dealer rep: What kind of condition would you say your car is in?<br />
<br />
Me: Terrible!<br />
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Dealer Rep: <i>Laughs </i>Well, let's see what the appraiser thinks.<br />
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<i> Appraiser enters the room. Pats me sympathetically on the shoulder and says..</i><br />
<i></i><br />
Appraiser: I think it's time to let it rest.<br />
<i></i><br />
This is the way I am feeling about this blog. I do not believe its condition is terrible but a blog does require energy to maintain that I do not seem to have at present.. When I began the blog, St. James-Santee did not have a functional website or an e-newsletter and we now have both. We will keep it online but won't be updating it. If you have read it regularly, thanks! Perhaps, we will revive it in the future. Perhaps a Church member will be inspired to pick it up. Who knows? Until then...<br />
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Thanks again for visiting and feel free to poke around the remaining content!<br />
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Yrs in Christ,<br />
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Jennie+The Rev. Dr. Jennie Clarkson Olbrychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010818278363363876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979592039554662207.post-85265567892228549492017-10-09T10:00:00.001-04:002017-10-16T14:59:27.373-04:00Sermon- Oct. 8, 2017 - Commandments, Community, and Caritas<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Proper 22A – Oct. 8, 2017 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>-Commandments, Community, and Caritas</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Readings
for the day are found here:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></div>
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<a href="http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearA_RCL/Pentecost/AProp22_RCL.html"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">http://www.lectionarypage.net/YearA_RCL/Pentecost/AProp22_RCL.html</span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> I wonder – and I have started sermons like
this before – are you feeling more than a little battered by the terrible news
that seems to surround us right now? From the horrific murders in Las Vegas, 58
dead, to a truly devastating and seemingly never-ending hurricane season which
has destroyed the property, infrastructure, and lives of people in places that
could least afford it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s been a very
hard week – this past week. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lord, whose
world is this anyway?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> What can our lessons say to us of this
past week?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can something written so long
ago actually have bearing on our present experience? I want to suggest to you
that the Scripture can and does speak to us in the present moment because it is
breathed over by the Holy Spirit, the living Spirit of our Living God, who
animates it and speaks through it to our hearts, minds, and spirits <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>here and now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> This past summer,
VBS focused on the Ten Commandments and here they are today in our Old
Testament reading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not so much with the
little kids, but the bigger kids and I had some substantial conversation around
the Sixth Commandment – Thou shalt do no murder. They wondered, was there ever
a time it would be OK to take another life?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What about soldiers? What about self-defense? What about accidents?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(fourth and fifth graders ask great
questions!).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I couldn’t help but think
about those heartfelt conversations right here when I heard about the terrible
happenings in Las Vegas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, what of the murderer himself? So many
questions, so much blaming, so much anger.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>People are struggling to understand what would bring a man to do such a
thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As horrific and heinous were Dylan Roof’s actions, we understood pretty quickly that he was driven by hatred
of black people, radical racism, and the desire to start a race war in
America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> We don’t know anything at this point about
the motivation of the killer in Las Vegas. But,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>whatever else we might say, we certainly can say he had forgotten the
Ten Commandments. Did he ever know them? Surely, the prohibition against murder
is one of the deepest commitments of our shared life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His brother said that he really did not seem
to have any kind of beliefs. I was struck by the description of him as a loner,
a lone wolf, and it’s a description we have heard over and over again of folks
who have acted in this horrific way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
picture emerges of someone who is utterly isolated, detached, living a secret
life- even if surrounded by others… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Now, there are plenty of isolated, detached,
lonely folks who live lives that do not result in mass murders but I cannot
help but be struck by the similarity in description. And, it leads me to wonder
if being engaged in community is not, in part, an or even the antidote for the
kind of radical isolation which produces such profoundly violent and
destructive behavior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not
discounting other factors – the ease of acquiring such murderous weapons,
mental illness or the actions of evil itself, but I do want to point<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to the difference it makes when we are in
community (which you know something about),<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>in relationships of accountability, support, and compassion with each
other. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>St. Paul says bear one another’s
burdens. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we detach or reject
community, we lose not only each other, but part of our own identity as well as
some of the supports that safeguard our communal life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Our God has created us as relational
beings—think about the Trinity itself – it is a community of being - and when
we are in Christ, we are taken up into the very life of that community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The mystery is that we become more deeply who
we are as we grow into the likeness of Christ. So, too, with community.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> God gives us the Ten Commandments to
function as a kind of protective hedge for our lives. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My rabbi friend, Ed Friedman, said “You
Christians would say- God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten
son.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We Jews would say- God so loved the
world that he gave his only begotten Torah – the commandments, the Law.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And our psalmist today reminds us that God’s
commandments are “…More to be desired … than gold, more than much fine
gold,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sweeter far than honey, than honey
in the comb.” (Ps. 19.10)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
kept trying to say to the kids this summer, God doesn’t give us the
commandments because he wants to load us up with a bunch of rules, but because
they keep us from injuring each other and injuring our relationship with God
.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rather, God wants us to learn to say,
“I will not... (whatever it is), because it will hurt me and others and
injure the bond of community.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
commandments <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>help define the way we live
together –and taken with Love God with your whole being and Love your neighbor
as yourself – these are life-giving. And, when we share them as values, they
help us remember who we are and whose we are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> The tenants in this morning’s Gospel
reading had certainly forgotten that – they had forgotten that they were only
tenants and not owners—and, remember, the owner was not asking for the entire
harvest only for his share.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Commandments
like – do not steal, do not murder, do not covet come to mind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The tenants rejected the commandments, and
they rejected the son. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This story has a strong allegorical
feature to it, and we really can’t look at it without noting traditional
interpretations:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the vineyard is God’s people-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>an image used over and over in the Old
Testament with<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>roots in Isaiah; <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the tenants are the rulers and religious
leaders; the wall – the commandments; the servants or slaves- the prophets, and
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incredibly patient – almost absurdly so, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for, in real life, the wicked tenants would
have been arrested and put to death immediately the first go round.</span></div>
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</span>but it doesn’t end there,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>because
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</i>forgotten whose we are, have <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">we</i>
forgotten whose world this is? What fruit does God desire from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">our</i> lives?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are his vineyard, and<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he waits patiently to see what the harvest
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">He calls us to live in community with each
other and with himself -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>holding fast to
the covenant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Will we?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> He calls us to faithful stewardship of all
that is entrusted to our care – that which we normally think of as ours – the
people of our lives, our wealth, our homes, any talents or abilities - whatever
we have in this life – it’s all gift..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> He calls us to live faithfully – to love
one another as we have been loved, to love God and love our neighbor – not
abstractly but practically – he calls us to live rightly – that is , justly…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So, then, how shall we live in the face of
tragedy?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are not impotent and we have
some choices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">In the wake of Las Vegas, I observed an
argument on social media – one side would say – praying, thoughts and prayers.
The other would say, enough with the prayers, it’s time for action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are not separate – not an
either-or.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to offer a model, a
rhythm,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to you from the world of
Franciscan monasticism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It goes like
this..</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> First, we pray – listening deeply.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, arising from prayer, we discern an
action to undertake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After engaging in
action, then we reflect- how did it go?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Do adjustments need to be made? Pray, act, reflect<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and all of it held in love.</span>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> You well know that action without prayer
or reflection can really miss the mark.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And, prayer without action can do the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, prayer, action, and reflection<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>not grounded in love does harm. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">So, beloved, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pray, act, and reflect. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Begin by listening to each other (Paul
Tillich, theologian, says the first duty of love is to listen). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Don’t be afraid to act. Hold onto to each
other, and, above all, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>stay grounded in
love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the sake of Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Amen.</span></div>
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The Rev. Dr. Jennie Clarkson Olbrychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010818278363363876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979592039554662207.post-54427566357285849392017-03-08T12:02:00.004-05:002017-03-08T12:02:33.381-05:00Dr. Greenwell's Sermon - The Transfiguration
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">St. James Santee Episcopal Church, 26 Feb 2017.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Christopher Greenwell, Ph.D<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">Ex 24:12-18; Psalm 99; 2 Peter
1:16-21; Matt 17:1-9.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">Opening Prayer: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">As my mind is bent to tell of bodies
changed into new forms, my God, who wrought these very changes, breathe on
these my understandings, and bring down my thoughts<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in unbroken strains from the world’s first
beginning even unto the present time. May these be the words to say, may they
be what need be heard. Amen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"> My vocation requires me to talk of
Athens more often than Jerusalem, so to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>speak, so such an occasion can be liberating, permitting me to speak
plainly without academic neutrality. Of course, today’s readings convey the
Transfiguration, a Latinized approximation of the Greek word we use in more
secular circumstances: metamorphosis. Both terms apply to our Biblical readings
today, but I cribbed Ovid to create the opening prayer. That may serve as a
reminder that Christianity is not the only tradition to speak of a
transfiguration which renders the central character radiant and visibly divine.
The great Hindu epic foreshadows divine change in the form of a glistening god;
Siddhartha’s face, too, shines with enlightenment and divinity. Indeed, many
religious traditions possess something akin to this idea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"> Judaism may have a foundational
claim. Moses would descend - twice - with the Law, glowing from standing in the
proximity of a nuclear God, physically changed by the experience, a further
sign of his invested power. Whatever the Biblical imagery, Moses descended from
the mountain transfigured, and the sign of that metamorphosis was a physical
radiance, one of objective blessing, undeniable to all who bore witness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whether a white-bearded Charleston Heston or
Michelangelo’s Horned Moses, Western Art has sought to immortalize this visual
change - to render belief secondary to the fact.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"> Yet it is Christianity which has
appropriated the term Transfiguration as a category, codified as a major moment
in the liturgical calendar. Perhaps nowhere in the New Testament does a
believer find a more direct, intentional connection with the Jewish foundations
- well, maybe the dry genealogies by which some Gospels open, but few read
them. In Matthew, we find Christ being identified before the three original
disciples, perhaps Peter mirrors the priestly function of Moses’s Joshua.
Elijah is there, too, likely because the disciples, who knew Jesus best, could
not recognize Jesus as the Christ, often confusing him with the Prophet some
900 years prior. Moses’ presence in the vision establishes the foundation of
the received covenantal Law of the Jews, the Torah; Elijah, in addition to
underscoring that Jesus was something altogether different, represents the
Prophetic tradition. Both represent the two coherent divisions of the Hebrew
Bible. Origen interpreted the gathering in just such a fashion as early as the
third century. In this manner, Jesus, as the unique Christ, emerges distinct,
self-evident. Even Peter needed reorientation - he understood the moment of
Jewish culmination in the person who had ‘fished’ him; he would not yet seem to
have recognized the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Messiah</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">- capital ‘M’. It was a revelatory
moment, punctuated by a divine Voice, but an epiphany which Jesus commanded to
remain secret.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"> At Christ’s Baptism, we may assume
the same divine Voice. “You are my Beloved, with whom I am well pleased”. Jesus
hears this and enters into his forty day desert<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>duel </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">with Satan. That same Voice
proclaims at the Transfiguration, “This is my Beloved,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>listen to him”. But when Peter, James, and
John can be sufficiently comforted finally to look up from hiding their faces
in terror, only Jesus remains. For the Transfiguration, the mountain is
shrouded in cloud. For the Baptism, the sky is torn apart. That Greek word -
skizomenous - will appear once again: when Jesus dies upon the cross at the
Crucifixion, the sky again will be rent. Two identities. At the Baptism, Jesus’
human identity comprehends its divinity. At the Transfiguration, it is not the
Christ who is changed, but the perception of those closest to Him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"> Jesus would be the culmination of a
greater tradition of God’s unveiling of Itself, the crescendo of the divine
revelatory order before the designed chaos of the Crucifixion. Nativity. Baptism.
Transfiguration. Crucifixion. Resurrection. Ascension. Perhaps those six stages
correspond to the six days of Moses’ sojourn on Mt. Sinai before the Law was
given on the seventh, enshrouded in God’s shadow; it might parallel the six
days Elijah awaited the rain clouds before the horizon darkened on the seventh;
Christ’s own journey towards Transfiguration culminated, too, after six days.
Six days of Creation, upon the Biblical template. The magical six of so many of
the ancients - the only number whose sum is identical with its product; the
creative hexagon of the Star of David, two triangles superimposed, one upon
another. *(explain) If six is the number of creative preparation - Nativity,
Baptism, Transfiguration, Crucifixion, Resurrection, Ascension - then Salvation
must be the culminating seven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"> Peter - the great chosen rock, Pope
#1, traitor, bodyguard, confidant, martyr - </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">Peter can begin to bring this
theological heavy-lifting - a necessary meditation - to more pragmatic use. He
reminds us that salvation is not of our doing. It is a gift bestowed. Augustine
would echo the idea with his doctrine of grace alone. What can the story of
Transfiguration mean for us, then, beyond affirmation of the unique divinity
that is the Christ? If Jesus served as the paradigm for what humans were meant
to become, where are we in our own “six day” peregrination? The Gospel of John
assures us that Jesus was with God from the beginning, but the human hands
which transcribed the divine stories are bound by fallibility and idiom - we
are not Jesus, even as given in the semantically compromised Scriptural
portrait.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"> So what can it mean to be like
Jesus? Should we aspire to be transfigured? A </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">butterfly was never anything but -
except when it was a larva - and then a pupa. Is the woman you are today the
girl you once were? Remember your youth, young man, when the greatest concern
of the day was returning home with holes in your jeans - and the consequences
that would bring. Our tradition teaches that the newborn baby is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>somehow flawed, an accessory to an original
sin committed in an Eden we cannot locate with GPS. Change cannot be described
neutrally, matter-of-factly. Human transformation<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>must be<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>to<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>move not only<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>towards<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>also away from<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>our<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>own </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">nature. Perhaps it should be stated
another way: we should gravitate towards God by moving towards our truer
nature. Who is chronicling this metamorphosis?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"> A rite of passage is a communal
event. Some event occurs in life which<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>punctuates the ‘you’; a before and after moment by which we, the
individual and the collective, are judged as ‘changed’. Apparently, simply
knowing who you are proves insufficient, even for Jesus. What would the
sacrifice of Christ be - from His condescension into human form to the atrocity
of the crucifixion - without an audience informed of its significance? Might
not God have forgiven Creation from afar, a benevolent, but mysterious, patron?
Ostensibly, that response is ‘no’. Timing must matter. Witnesses are required.
How else could justification be understood? The theology gets sticky, and the
Early Church could be bogged down by such discussions: was there a time when
Jesus was not the Christ? did He evolve to become the Son of God, identified
only at Baptism? if fully aware of Himself and his Divine Purpose, why does the
Voice address Him only to address his Disciples later during the
Transfiguration?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"> It is no simpler for us, today. What
is becoming for a human? for a Christian </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">human? Had I shown up glowing today,
your immediate thought may turn to ‘how do I get that app for my smartphone’ or
‘I thought he said he was from Charleston, not near the Robinson plant’. In my
admittedly limited experience, glowing people are more suspect than sanctified.
If we are not to be conformed to this world, how might we be transfigured in
it? Tricky.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"> There is no snapshot of you. From
cradle to casket, you are you. Some of that portrait lies beyond your control -
tall or short can be comparatively measured, but what is the metric for beauty?
Think yourself clever? Someone is smarter. Do the people at Title Max car title
loans know you by name? Would you trade the misfortune of your bank account for
that of a street vendor in Somalia? Let’s update our Facebook status. Some of
us become heavier - if you are lucky enough to reside in a nation where the
Center for Disease Control cites obesity as one of the principal health
concerns. We<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>move through the stages of
our lives, growing older. Society paces the moments of relative import: your
first dance, your first kiss, reach 16 and drive - 18 and vote, graduation,
divorce, death of a parent, birth of a child, audit. We must earn some of our
Faith’s recognition - baptism - but somethings happen without our full
comprehension - christening. To move from stage to stage, measured by years or
salary or marital status, is not to live. Time is a ruler, and lives
‘unexamined’, those of ‘quiet desperation’, do not meter the moments in a
transformative fashion. But what defines you at any point on this timeline?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"> Though the Voice first addressed
Jesus directly in the Jordan, it came from Christ Himself - as if from a Sacred
Ventriloquist - at the Transfiguration. What had<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>changed? </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">Can Jesus ‘grow’ into Himself? Was
the boy astounding the Rabbis in the Temple not<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>the man standing before Pilate? It is a quandary relevant to our own
existence. Do we accumulate experiences like vocabulary words from diapers…
well, to diapers… hoping to hear the Voice? Would that divine Announcement be a
press-release, a heavenly endorsement fortifying our self-worth as well as
validating our existence to our fellow humans? Does our election become
self-evident, an aura readily visible? Or perhaps Elijah’s ‘still, small Voice’
might call to us - should we be able to distinguish it in our daily passage
from small screen to smaller screen to larger screen to the television screen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"> Whether you understand Life to be a
culmination of well-intentioned events, guided by Peter’s outward morality, or
whether you hope to strip away the superfluousness from each living moment,
unveiling that potential, fully-realized<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>human trying to respire beneath the ‘spirit’s mask’, it is worth
remembering that this is no competition. Salvation may not lie within our
power, but the God that accords it has no quota. Christ’s uniqueness lies not
in his Transfiguration - that has occurred before - nor does His assumption to
Heaven set him apart with complete exclusivity. However, upon being
Transfigured, the stuttering Moses could be wrathful with the apostates.
Elijah, unmerciful to those who defied the One True God, waited in vain for a
grand<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>sign, finally finding God
modestly, without fanfare. Christ, however, upon becoming known, with the
heavens sundered as he was consecrated, as he was recognized, as he was
crucified, gave himself to others with empathy and forgiveness. We can attempt
to emulate those outward signs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"> Perhaps being is becoming. There is
no anniversary date by which we can measure the passage of our lives, nor
should we passively await an epiphany that is not ours to conjure. Thomas
Merton once prayed along these lines: ‘O God, let me be employed for You, or
let me be set aside by You’. Our power is limited. Yet we may embrace the
metamorphosis, emerging - or unveiling - in the trust and hope that the Divine
Audience will vivify our persons with the brightness which is the inclusion of
all known colors. We were anointed to witness, charged with the task of
learning our evolving place; we may hope to mount onto the scene and into the
spotlight. Until then, we shine as we might, permitting others to see the God
of torn space-time and of whispered revelation in us, out of gratitude for the
life we are given. Change will come, and we can but control our perception of
it: that change must be a metamorphosis towards a comprehension of God… or back
to It. That bestowed perspective remains ours to embrace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">Closing Prayer: </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">God, grant us the audience of Transfiguration through the pages of Scripture, in the kindness of another’s face, from the awakening earth. Where there was bare ground, life emerges heavenward. The tree, skeletal and dormant yesterday, is irrepressible today. Let us not accumulate these springs as ever-increasing anniversaries, rather let us embrace this life as a countdown to a Promise when the ultimate metamorphosis be ours. Until that moment, may we be an audience pleasing to you, rehearsing our part until we hear that Voice. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 115%;">Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></o:p></span></div>
The Rev. Dr. Jennie Clarkson Olbrychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010818278363363876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979592039554662207.post-4017653651155331572016-05-30T15:55:00.000-04:002016-05-30T16:48:25.143-04:00Thoughts on Memorial Day, 2016<br />
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Albert McTeer (September 23, 1920-June 25, 1943)</h4>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> Yesterday at Church, during Prayers of the People, I
asked for names of those who had died in service to our country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We remembered Albert McTeer, Alan Kohn
from Columbia, and a member's two Citadel classmates. Today, Memorial Day, I
find myself wanting to know more, particularly, about Albert McTeer and, remembering at the same time,
Jesus' words about counting the cost of what we undertake (Luke 14.28-32) .<a href="file:///C:/Users/Jennie/Desktop/Thoughts%20on%20Memorial%20Day.docx" name="_ftnref1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue;">[1]</span></span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> WW II cost the church family of St. James Santee, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the life of young Albert McTeer. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is a memorial tablet to him in the
Church, and it notes that he died on June 25, 1943 in North Africa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a Morrison cousin which means he was
related to about one half of the church membership. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Twenty-two years of age, he was a recent
Clemson graduate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His burial record
(interred overseas) , photo and copy of his obituary are <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56248968"><span style="color: blue;">HERE</span></a>
.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without a doubt, there were other <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>losses in the extended church family, but his
is one that is still mourned today by his cousins.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> I recall Alan Kohn who was a high school friend and
who died serving our country in Vietnam on March 26, 1968 - <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a few days after his twenty-first
birthday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did not know him well but
recall that our school (it was my senior year) mourned his loss. <a href="http://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/28577/ALAN-S-KOHN"><span style="color: blue;">HERE</span></a> is the link
to his listing on the Virtual Vietnam Veterans Wall of Faces. I looked back at
our high school annual (Dreher High School in Columbia, 1965) and noted the
saying by his photograph- "I have kept unsullied and untarnished that
thing - a name- entrusted to my care."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Indeed, you did , Alan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> The Vietnam conflict cost McClellanville the lives
of two young African-American men. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>James
Henry Brown, Jr., aged 20 yrs, died on August 21, 1969, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>almost one month to the date his tour began.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is buried in the Bethel AME Cemetery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>David Lee Mitchell, aged 23, died in an
accident 22 days after his tour began.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You can view their records- <a href="http://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/"><span style="color: blue;">HERE</span></a>. (You will need to plug their names into the search box at the top right).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were 76
Vietnam casualties from Charleston, 12 from Charleston Heights, and close to
900 from South Carolina.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is hard to
imagine the cost of nearly 900 lives to their families and communities.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> When my father died nearly three years ago, we
inherited a treasure trove of family papers. Among those papers was a letter from a young cousin, Andrew Crawford Fraser, writing to his first
cousin, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my great-grandmother. The letter
was dated May 23, 1862, and he was killed in action seven days later, May 31,
at the Battle of Seven Pines (also known as Fair Oaks) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>near Henrico, Virginia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was 19 yrs old when he enlisted in the
Boyce Guards (mostly Fairfield County) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>under the command of Capt. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>JN Shedd and served as a private in the 6th
Regiment of the SC Volunteers, 2nd Company G. He enlisted on March 17th, 1862
and died a little more than two months later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Prior to enlisting in 1862, he had been a Junior at South Carolina
College (now University of SC).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here is an excerpt from the letter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please note: there is no discussion of valor
or causes - just a description of endless slogging in terrible conditions, the
sounds of battle, and witnessing death.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><em>"We left Yorktown on a Saturday night about
nine aclack [sic] and next morning at daylight we were only two miles from where
we started.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The roads were in such
terrible fix.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We marched<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that until about three aclack [sic] in the
evening when we halted about two miles this side of Williamsburg, and had
hardly got off our baggage when we were ordered to fall in again, and was marched
back the other side of the town, and took our position for the expected battle
and had to stay there all night and it pouring down rain all the time, and what
made the matter worse we were not allowed to close our eyes<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>after having <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>already lost two nights sleep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the morning six companies from our
regiment were thrown out as skirmishers and the remaining four were ordered
about two hundred yards to the right to act as a support to a battery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When took this last position we were
compelled to lie down so as to let the balls and shells pass over us which flew
pretty thick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our position being on the
left of the whole, we were not actively engaged until about two or three aclack
[sic] in the evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never heard the
like in my life before as the firing on the right, it was one continuous roar
of musketry and cannon for more than six hours, except when our<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>men would succeed in driving back the enemy,
then the air was rent with their shouts as they charged on their retiring columns.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>About three aclack [sic] in the evening we
were somewhat taken by surprise by a cannon ball which came from behind us, and
next thing we were ordered to go and take possession of a about half mile of so
as to prevent the enemy from getting it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We had to march the whole way through an open field, which the enemy was
raking with his artillery which had by this time got into position, as we
marched along Colonel Bratton noticed some of the men dodging as the balls
would sing pass their ears when he said "men don't mind those things come
on."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We succeeded in getting into
the fort, after having some five or six men wounded, one had his leg shot off
by a cannon ball and died on the feild (sic) After we got into the fort fired
some five vollies [sic] at the enemy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>After remaining there for some time we received reinforcements and were
out of the fort to support a North Carolina regiment in a charge on one of the
enemy batteries which they succeeded in taking three different times but on
account of our not {unclear} ____ a sufficient we had to leave it at last when
we filed off into a piece of woods and commenced falling back to keep from
being flanked by the enemy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It now being
dark we took the same position that we had in the morning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had no idea that the balls that the
infantry of enemy fired at us came so thick but in going into the piece of
woods I spoke of we had to go through an old corn field and I could hear the
balls striking corn stalks just like rain.</em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> He</o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> must have wondered, like so many young men over
so many years,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>what he was doing there
and how in the world he would survive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But, survive my long ago cousin did not.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>At that battle (Seven Pines), <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the
Union troops noted 790 fatalities and the Confederates, 980. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those numbers, though, pale again the total
loss of nearly 690,000 lives in direct war fatalities in the American Civil
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> On one hand, I am wondering,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>if we have lost the ability to count the cost
of so much loss of life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At present, the
numbers keep adding up - 470,000 in Syria and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>480,000 in Darfur - to say nothing of the cost
of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>extreme deprivation and profoundly disrupted
lives as communities large and small are destroyed by warring factions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> On the other hand, I am also left wondering if we
realize the cost of <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and treasure the
gift of freedom purchased for us by the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>blood of our brothers and, now, sisters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Does
our national life show any indication of gratitude for the costs paid for
us?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was the price paid so that we might
enjoy endless national bickering over every imaginable thing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Was the price paid so that our citizens might
have the freedom to succumb to addictions of all sorts:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pornography, drugs, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and violence?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Was the price paid so that any modicum of civility might be drummed out
of the public sphere?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Somehow, I don't
think so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, please forgive me, if I
don't wish you a Happy Memorial Day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What I do wish for you, for me, and for us all is a thankful, thoughtful
Memorial Day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><em><strong>Almighty and everlasting God, in whom all souls live now and evermore, the God not of the dead but of the living: We bless thee for all those who have faithfully lived and died in the service of their country. As we ever hold them in grateful remembrance, do thou in thy love and mercy let light perpetual shine upon them, and bring us all at last into thine eternal kingdom of peace; through Jesus Christ our Savior. Amen.</strong></em></span></div>
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<a href="file:///C:/Users/Jennie/Desktop/Thoughts%20on%20Memorial%20Day.docx" name="_ftn1" style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">[1]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"> <span class="woj">28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower,
does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete
it?</span></span> <span class="woj"><span id="en-ESVUK-25574">29 </span>Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is
not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,</span> <span class="woj"><span id="en-ESVUK-25575">30 </span>saying, ‘This man began to
build and was not able to finish.’</span> <span class="woj"><span id="en-ESVUK-25576">31 </span>Or what king, going out to encounter another
king in war, will not sit down first and deliberate whether he is able with ten
thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?</span> <span class="woj"><span id="en-ESVUK-25577">32 </span>And if not, while the
other is yet a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace.</span>
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Papers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Letter from AC Fraser to MRC
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The Rev. Dr. Jennie Clarkson Olbrychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010818278363363876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979592039554662207.post-26969239973759063932015-05-18T14:45:00.004-04:002015-05-18T14:46:18.078-04:00The Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ<span style="font-size: large;">Last Thursday, May 14th, we marked the feast day of the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The day comes exactly forty days after the resurrection....Here is a lovely prayer from <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">W E Scudamore (19th c. </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">Church</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> of </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">England</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> priest and </span><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">scholar - Hat-tip KSH).</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">O God, whose dearly beloved Son was, by thy mighty power, exalted that he might prepare a place in thy kingdom of glory for them that love thee: So lead and uphold us, O merciful Lord, that we may both follow the holy steps of his life here upon earth, and may enter with him hereafter into thy everlasting rest; that where he is, we may also be; through the merits of the same Jesus Christ our Lord.</span></span></span><br />
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The Rev. Dr. Jennie Clarkson Olbrychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010818278363363876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979592039554662207.post-51335003628563812362015-04-08T08:29:00.000-04:002015-04-08T08:29:02.892-04:00Doubting Thomas<i>Biola University's Lent Project looks at St. Thomas ....with a meditation which includes the following sonnet and a wonderful painting by artist Rene Klarenbeek - Doubting Thomas (after Rembrandt) .</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Born in Fayetteville, N.C., on July 11, 1947, Charles vonRosenberg
graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with a bachelor
of arts in 1969. He earned his master of divinity degree from Virginia Theological
Seminary in 1974. Early in his episcopate, the University of the South's School
of Theology awarded him an honorary doctor of divinity.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Ordained as a priest in 1975, he served as
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For many years, Bishop vonRosenberg served in the Diocese of Upper
South Carolina, as rector of the Church of the Resurrection in Greenwood and
later as Canon to the Ordinary (assistant to the Bishop) of that diocese from
1989-1994. Later he accepted a call to be rector of St. James Episcopal Church
in Wilmington, N.C. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">As
Third Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee from February 1999
until his retirement in June 2011, he oversaw an area of 34 counties in
Tennessee and three in North Georgia, with 45 congregations and five worshiping
communities and nearly 16,000 active members. Bishop vonRosenberg serves in the
House of Bishops, and ex officio on the board of trustees of the University of
the South. He was also was elected to the university's board of regents. In
2008 he attended the Lambeth Conference and participated with other bishops in
a “Walk of Witness” through central London to draw attention to the Millennium
Development Goals, which target poverty reduction around the world.</span> <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">He has served as Bishop Provisional of The
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The Rev. Dr. Jennie Clarkson Olbrychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010818278363363876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979592039554662207.post-17631769178995418582015-03-29T18:22:00.004-04:002015-03-29T18:22:55.020-04:00The Treachery of Judas - Andrey Mironov - 2009Below is a painting which has been my companion during Lent. I am curious about the cloaked and veiled figure in the foreground. Who is he? Where are you in the painting? Below is a link to a larger version of the painting if you would like to look at it more closely (which I recommend)..<br />
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& Faith: Lent. Each week we’ll provide a video commentary about a work of
art inspired by the Sunday Scriptures. Use these videos to take a new look at
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of liturgy, catechesis, and evangelization at Loyola University New Orleans.
She holds a bachelor’s degree in theology from the University of Notre Dame, a
master’s degree in liturgy from St. John’s University in Collegeville, a
master’s degree in religion and the arts from Yale Divinity School, and a Ph.D.
in theology and education from Boston College. Her unique background in faith
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The Rev. Dr. Jennie Clarkson Olbrychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010818278363363876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979592039554662207.post-38462112505782138262015-03-02T09:45:00.001-05:002015-03-15T20:59:56.075-04:00Lenten Thoughts on Giving Up<i><span style="font-size: large;">The following is an excerpt from an essay by the Rev. Dan Heishman, head of the National Association of Episcopal Schools..I appreciate his take on "giving up."</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We often associate this season of Lent with giving things up—some indulgence, some bad habit—and we often view the activity of giving something up for Lent as an exercise in self-denial. While it certainly can be that, and there can be real value in self-denial, this process also turns out to be an exercise in the much larger task of giving up in life. A small act of giving up turns out to be a testing ground, a spiritual preparation for one of the great surprises of adulthood—just how much we will be about relinquishing things, illusions, or self-destructive activities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I also thought about one of the hardest things for a mature school community (substitute, church family) to accept, that<i> it cannot do all or be all things for all people. Fewer prospects are more difficult for a school (church) to bear than having to consider ways in which it occasionally must give up on the seductive activity of constantly taking on one more project, program, or expectation. As with all forms of giving up, we worry that it is a sign of defeat. </i>(Emphasis mine).</span><br />
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© Provided by National Journal Syrian Kurds Battle IS To Retain Control Of Kobani<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East, admitting that he had hardly begun figuring out the Islamic State's appeal. "We have not defeated the idea," he said. "We do not even understand the idea." In the past year, President Obama has referred to the Islamic State, variously, as "not Islamic" and as al-Qaeda's "jayvee team," statements that reflected confusion about the group, and may have contributed to significant strategic errors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The group seized Mosul, Iraq, last June, and already rules an area larger than the United Kingdom. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been its leader since May 2010, but until last summer, his most recent known appearance on film was a grainy mug shot from a stay in U.S. captivity at Camp Bucca during the occupation of Iraq. Then, on July 5 of last year, he stepped into the pulpit of the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, to deliver a Ramadan sermon as the first caliph in generations—upgrading his resolution from grainy to high-definition, and his position from hunted guerrilla to commander of all Muslims. The inflow of jihadists that followed, from around the world, was unprecedented in its pace and volume, and is continuing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">To continue reading ... <a href="http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/what-isis-really-wants/ar-BBhFUKq" target="_blank">Click Here</a></span>The Rev. Dr. Jennie Clarkson Olbrychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010818278363363876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979592039554662207.post-64065098857563326512015-01-14T13:41:00.001-05:002015-01-14T13:41:03.496-05:00A Way of Thinking and Talking<i><span style="font-size: large;">What follows is a thoughtful piece on a way of being.The author is the Rev. Dr. Daniel Heishmann, Director of the Natl. Assoc. of Episcopal Schools....</span></i><div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In Ian McEwan’s new novel, The Children’s Act, Fiona May is a British High Court judge who must rule on a difficult case regarding a 17-year old boy who faces likely death if he does not receive immediate blood transfusions. The boy and his parents are Jehovah’s Witnesses, a religious group that forbids the use of such medical assistance. In a high-pitched legal battle, the hospital where the boy was being treated was asking that the Judge put the interests of the boy’s health ahead of the religious convictions of the family. As Fiona hears the case, and weighs the competing claims and intense passions of each party, she determines that a ruling cannot come until she pays a visit to the boy in hospital, in an effort to determine if he is fully aware of what may happen to him, as well as whether or not he had arrived at his desire not to receive blood in a free and rational fashion.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Our school communities, our nation, our world, can feel at times like brittle and intense places of crossfire where judgment comes quickly. In the midst of such contention, it is important to remind ourselves of the power of the person who simply, calmly asks questions and listens. It is that person who is most likely to discover what lies beneath all of the shouting and conflict—real, decent human beings on both sides who are hurting and holding on to deep convictions rarely understood by those who oppose them. What’s more, in modeling this way of thinking and talking we provide both sides with the type of example—that of the grown up—most needed at such times. The muted courage of the grown-up, so to speak, is what is most lasting and potentially healing.</span></div>
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The Rev. Dr. Jennie Clarkson Olbrychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010818278363363876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979592039554662207.post-56636355159637969762014-12-26T09:01:00.003-05:002014-12-26T09:01:37.933-05:00Happy Second Day of Christmas!Today is the Feast Day of St. Stephen, Deacon. In many quarters it is also known as Boxing Day and is a day to remember those less fortunate.<br />
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One song associated with this day is Good King Wenceslas! Enjoy!<br />
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The Rev. Dr. Jennie Clarkson Olbrychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010818278363363876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979592039554662207.post-19582382710974482892014-12-23T10:35:00.001-05:002014-12-23T10:35:13.170-05:00Christmas Eve, 2014<br />
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The Rev. Dr. Jennie Clarkson Olbrychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010818278363363876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979592039554662207.post-49263074003411548732014-10-31T08:18:00.004-04:002014-10-31T08:18:58.315-04:00Why Were the Saints Saints?<div style="text-align: center;">
<em> <span style="font-size: large;">All Saints Day is tomorrow - Nov. 1, 2014. Here is a little saying my Grandfather kept on his dresser mirror.</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because they were cheerful</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">when it was difficult to be cheerful;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">when it was difficult to be patient;</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">and because they pushed on</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And kept silent</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And were agreeable</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When they wanted to be disagreeable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That was all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was quite simple</span></div>
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The Rev. Dr. Jennie Clarkson Olbrychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010818278363363876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979592039554662207.post-3480976489192190172014-10-27T08:09:00.000-04:002014-10-31T08:24:14.789-04:00Love Thy Neighbor<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Almighty and most merciful God, who hast given us a new commandment that we should love one another: Give us also grace that we may fulfill it. Make us gentle, courteous, and forbearing. Direct our lives so that we may look to the good of others in word and deed. And hallow all our friendships by the blessing of thy Spirit; for his sake who loved us and gave himself for us, Jesus Christ our Lord. </span><br />
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<em><span style="font-size: large;">B.F.Wescott- HT to Kendall</span></em> </div>
The Rev. Dr. Jennie Clarkson Olbrychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010818278363363876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979592039554662207.post-88801595010469271822014-10-18T13:40:00.001-04:002014-10-19T12:43:26.472-04:00Rock of Ages<br />
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mother's move to a retirement community this year, our family have been sorting
through my parents' library. In some
cases this has meant also sorting through books that belonged to their
parents. One such book, from my maternal
grandfather, was a little book published in 1934 by General Mills no less. How
he came by it is unknown to me. Entitled <i>The
Story of Fifty Hymns</i>, it has write-ups of many familiar hymns. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;"> Amazon has this description of the book "<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Story of Fifty Hymns</i> published by
the millers of Gold Medal "Kitchen-tested" Flour Minneapolis,
Minnesota. Copyrighted by General Mills, Inc. in 1934 and 1939.
This booklet was presented through the courtesy of General Mills in
commemoration of the 6th Annual Marshall County Church of Bible School Day
featuring "Hymns of All Churches Parade", June 26, 1940, Marshalltown,
Iowa. It has a Preface about a group of artists and musicians headed by
Joe Emerson, a nationally known figure in radio in 1934, who started a program
of morning hymns with every faith represented, and Gold Medal
"Kitchen-tested" Flour was the sponsor of the radio show. "<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">Here is the text concerning <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rock of Ages</i> which we sing at Church tomorrow.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 115%;">"In the 31st Psalm, we read these words:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>'Be thou a strong rock...a house of defense
to save me...' This is the thought of the hymn, 'Rock of Ages,' familiar to many
churches,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was written in 1776 by
Augustus M. Toplady, priest of the Church of England.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An
interesting sidelight on the steadfast faith expressed in the hymn is found in
the words of the writer as he lay dying, "I cannot tell you the comforts I
feel in my soul; they are past expression.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My prayers are all converted to praise..."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the one hundredth anniversary of the
writing of 'Rock of Ages', more than ten thousand people gathered at the place where
it is supposed to have been written, to pay homage to this great symbol of faith
expressed in song."<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Of this hymn Wikipedia says "Traditionally, it is held that Toplady drew his inspiration from an incident in the gorge of the Mendip Hills in England. Toplady, a preacher in the nearby village of Blagdon, was travelling along the gorge when he was caught in a storm. Finding shelter in a gap in the gorge, he was struck by the title and scribbled down the initial lyrics.</span></span></div>
<span lang="EN" style="font-family: inherit; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The fissure that is believed to
have sheltered Toplady is now marked as the "Rock of Ages", both on
the rock itself and on some maps, and is also reflected in the name of a nearby
tea shop.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada (28 March 1515 – 4 October
1582), was a prominent Spanish mystic, Roman Catholic saint, Carmelite nun, an
author of the Counter Reformation and theologian of contemplative life through
mental prayer. She was a reformer of the Carmelite Order and is considered to
be a founder of the Discalced Carmelites along with John of the Cross.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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canonized by Pope Gregory XV and on 27 September 1970, was named a Doctor of
the Church by Pope Paul VI. Her books, which include her autobiography (The
Life of Teresa of Jesus) and her seminal work El Castillo Interior (trans.: The
Interior Castle) are an integral part of Spanish Renaissance literature as well
as Christian mysticism and Christian meditation practices as she entails in her
other important work, Camino de Perfección (trans.: The Way of Perfection). (Wikipedia)</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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us throw ourselves into the ocean of his goodness, where every failing will be
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<br />The Rev. Dr. Jennie Clarkson Olbrychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010818278363363876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979592039554662207.post-7433316209620124622014-10-08T13:28:00.002-04:002014-10-08T13:28:38.199-04:00A Prayer for Today<span style="font-size: large;">O God, whose love we cannot measure, nor even number thy blessings: We bless and praise thee for all thy goodness, who in our weakness art our strength, in our darkness, light, in our sorrows, comfort and peace, and from everlasting to everlasting art our God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, world without end. Amen.</span>The Rev. Dr. Jennie Clarkson Olbrychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010818278363363876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979592039554662207.post-80901920205911867072014-10-02T14:07:00.000-04:002014-10-02T14:07:16.353-04:00Blessing of the Animals - THIS Sunday - Oct. 5,2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">What’s with all these stories of Western defections to
Islamic radicalism? Well, the answer may be more over here than over there.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">News broke recently of two beautiful teenage girls from
Austria, aged 15 and 16, who became burka-wearing recruiters for the terror
group known as ISIS, or the Islamic State. And their journey to radicalism is
not an isolated case. In my own state of
Colorado, a 19-year-old female just pled guilty to trying to join ISIS, too.
And then there are the two young American men who died in Syria fighting for
ISIS.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Why are young 21st-century Westerners converting to a brutal
form of Islam? Why would young people, with seemingly so much to live for,
leave the West for terrorism?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This question came up last month in a panel discussion with
radio hosts Hugh Hewitt and Dennis Prager, as well as Stephen Meyer of the
Discovery Institute and myself. We all agreed that the answer was not the
radicalism of Islam, but the current emptiness of Western materialism.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The idea that matter is all that matters pervades everything
young people see and hear these days. They hear it in science class, from the
new Cosmos television series, and even, and as I added especially, in
advertising and other media messages. Nearly every commercial message tells us
that we’re born to be consumers, that stuff will make us happy and save us from
our misery, and that there’s nothing beyond the immediate gratification of this
world to live for.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As Dennis Prager said that night, “Secular society produces
a lot of bored people . . . Secular society is a curse because ultimately life
is meaningless if there’s no God.” The materialistic salvation sold to us
promises to fill what Pascal called the God-shaped hole in our hearts … with
stuff. But many see the meaningless of secular salvation, and they become
bored; others become angry, even murderous.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Remember Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, who killed 13 people
at Columbine High School? They weren’t Muslims. Then there’s T.J. Lane, a
19-year-old serving three life sentences for shooting to death three high
school students in 2012. At his sentencing, in which he taunted his victims’
families with expletives, Lane opened his blue dress shirt to reveal a T-shirt
on which he had scrawled the word “killer.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We’ve always had young murderers, but the nihilism of today
is different. Writing in Time several years ago, Harvard’s student body
president called it the “Rude Boy” culture. The tough guy of the ‘60s and ‘70s,
he observed, would say, “I’m better than you, I can beat you up”—but the tough
guy today says, “I flip you off; you don’t matter and neither do I.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And that’s a whole new level of brokenness. That’s the
cultural shift toward nihilism. A few years ago, the rock band Switchfoot hit
the nail on the head when they sang, “We were meant to live for so much more.
But we lost ourselves.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This sort of empty pop-nihilism, to borrow a term from
Baylor’s Thomas Hibbs, makes even the evil radicalism of extremist Islam look
attractive to some. And parasitic ideologies like these find folks in despair
easy prey.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Might it be that ISIS finds this shallow ground as fertile
soil from which to harvest young souls for its deadly agenda?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Decades ago, even before the Internet and social media took
over so much of our lives, Aldous Huxley warned of the capacity of the media to
exploit “man's almost infinite appetite for distraction.” Could it be that even
ISIS looks attractive to those who, after having their fill, still feel empty
inside?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wait a minute, you say, that’s just a small minority. Not
every kid flees to ISIS or thinks of murder as a way to meaning. Well, true,
but how many others are living shriveled up lives of perpetual boredom? What
addictions and distractions are they fleeing to in pursuit of meaning and
purpose? How can Christians point our culture to the One we were made for?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, the panel discussion I mentioned earlier can start
that discussion. Come to BreakPoint.org to find out how to watch or listen to
my conversation with Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt, and Steve Meyer on this and
other topics relating to God and culture.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">For more from Breakpoint on this topic , click<a href="http://www.breakpoint.org/bpcommentaries/entry/13/26115?spMailingID=9513642&spUserID=MzYyMDA1MzYxNTMS1&spJobID=381805328&spReportId=MzgxODA1MzI4S0" target="_blank"> HERE</a></span><o:p></o:p></div>
The Rev. Dr. Jennie Clarkson Olbrychhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05010818278363363876noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1979592039554662207.post-3979997698150320742014-07-18T11:38:00.000-04:002014-07-18T11:42:51.894-04:00Some Great News from TWO of our Mission PartnersLAMB in Honduras and Water Missions International...<br />
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<b>From Susan Keller, LAMB Board Chair</b><br />
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Dear LAMB family,<br />
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I am so very happy to tell you that this week we signed the Water Missions International (WMI) project agreement for the water project and sent our first check. WMI has ordered supplies and their team has arrived at San Buenaventura to begin mobilizing for Phase 1 of the project! WMI engineer, Selvin is pictured here with Amanda Scott, LAMB volunteer coordinator.<br />
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WMI anticipates that Phases 1, 2 and half of 3 will be completed by the end of December.<br />
See the Water for LAMB page for the description of phases. <a href="http://www.lambinstitute.org/water">http://www.lambinstitute.org/water</a><br />
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There has been some good tweaking of the original plan and the final numbers are coming in at approximately $233,000. We have sent the requested amount for this part of the work which was $147,543. We have raised to date $179,546. So we lack around $53,000.<br />
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This is another day closer to the day we will have water flowing from our own well. Thank you, Lord, for all the work that has been done by many, many people…beginning with Wheeler Conkling and David Gradiz back in 2007, continuing on with John McKinnon and David over the next many years studying, praying, planning…on to today with many months of work done by our great friends at WMI. <br />
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Please pray with us that God continue to lead and guide the work, protect the workers, bring complete success for this part of the project and provide for the remainder of the total cost.<br />
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With joy overflowing in the Lord,<br />
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Susan C. Keller<br />
LAMB Board Chair<br />
PO Box 20488<br />
Charleston, SC 29413<br />
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