Episode #27 is now online.
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Visiting Scholar
The faculty at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts has voted to grant me Visiting Scholar Status for the 2008-2009 academic year. This is a research position that grants me library privileges and access to other faculty. I will begin a project on the Theology of Suffering and Trauma and work to develop a course that could be taught in seminary to prepare ministerial students to deal with Trauma and Recovery in a much better way.
Article Published
I have begun witting for OrthodoxyToday.org and my first article has just been published. Follow the link here to read the article. You can subscribe to their feed so you will be notified when new articles are published. An email is usually sent once a week with the new articles listed.
Blog on Facebook
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Shepherd of Souls
Well there is some good news! My Podcast, Shepherd of Souls will now be on the local radio station here in the village. The Spirit 970 (WESO) will be broadcasting my program on Sunday mornings at 8:30. Have no fear the podcast will continue the format might change a little but that will be the only difference.
Hanna
Well it looks like all we are going to get is some rain and much wind so it could be a rocky night. I pray all is well out there for those in the path of this thing, and let us not forget the one right behind this one.
UPDATE: I just looked out my window and man it is really coming down out there. I hope Onchu is in for the night!
I forgot to ask for prayers for those who have to work tonight. Keep them all safe.
O God, your unfailing providence sustains the world we live in and the life we live: Watch over those, both night and day, who work while others sleep, and grant that we may never forget that our common life depends upon each other’s toil; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Compline. The Prayer Book Office
September 11th
I have been asked to be the speaker at our town’s 9/11 ceremony. Nothing like waiting until the last minute but I have some thoughts and some writing to do. I will try and record the talk and share it here and in the podcast.
OCA Follow up
Philippa asks a question what words of comfort I could share in the wake of all that has transpired in the OCA. My church does not belong to the OCA so I will not enter the fray of commenting on any particular event or person.
I will say this however. The church is bigger than one bishop or one priest! If you place all of your hope in one man you will be disappointed. If you place your hope in the institutional church it will let you down and you will be disappointed. I will also say this, if you leave the church because of one man or what the institutional church has done, I am not talking about abuse here that is a different story all together, then I will hold the door open for you.
Again the church is bigger than any one person or any one headquarters. Our hope should be on Christ and His saving message and nothing else. The church came off the rails as soon as Jesus left it to us to run. Power, sex, money will win out with men, and women by the way, every time. Our hope is in the Lord and no where else. Keep this in mind and all will be well. The Church of Jesus Christ will continue, all we need do is pray.
+Herman Retires
SYOSSET, NY [OCA Communications] — The Holy Synod of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America, meeting at the OCA Chancery in Oyster Bay Cove, NY, on Thursday, September 4, 2008, issued the following statement.
“On September 4, 2008, The Holy Synod of Bishops received a letter from His Beatitude, Metropolitan HERMAN. In this letter, His Beatitude asks for Retirement, effective immediately, ‘in the best interests of The Orthodox Church in America, and taking into consideration the current condition of my health.’
“Effective this date, The Holy Synod of Bishops grants His Beatitude’s request to retire from the Office of Metropolitan of All America and Canada of the Orthodox Church in America.
“The Holy Synod of Bishops resolves that, in retirement, the title will be `Former Archbishop of Washington, Metropolitan of All America and Canada.’
“The Holy Synod of Bishops expresses to His Beatitude, Metropolitan HERMAN, their fraternal love and gratitude for his primatial service and archpastoral labors.
“The Holy Synod of Bishops resolves that His Eminence, DMITRI, Archbishop of Dallas and the South, be Locum tenens of The Orthodox Church in America. In liturgical commemorations, he is to be commemorated as `His Eminence, DMITRI, Locum tenens of The Orthodox Church in America.'”