Oh, those RevGals don't realize what a can of worms they might have opened. This is the Friday Five, courtesy of Cindi Knox: So my challenge for us this week is to write about animals. Tell us about an animal you know: perhaps one of your pets, or the pet of a friend or family …
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Anglicans and The Three-Legged Stool
I am no biblical scholar; however, I admit to being an expert on falling down, both metaphorically and actually. The concept of the "three-legged stool" always made sense to me because I understand what happens when one rests too much weight on one leg of a chair - boom, crash, another two weeks of watching my …
Foundation/The Village/Sunday School
There we were: my partner-in-Sunday School-teaching-crime, Arthur, our solitary student, and me. As we peppered him with questions about the text of the day, this not shy middle school boy said the only logical thing there was to say, "Argh.....! Don't quiz me!" And we weren't really quizzing, but I'm sure it feels like a quiz when …
My STAR Word… Oh Myyyyy….
What a great Epiphany at St. Simon & St. Jude! It began, as all fun things should, with a feast, specifically, a "Feast from the East," the East being taken a bit tongue in cheek. I'm not sure from what part of the East Party Potatoes come but, in the words of Liz Lemon, "I …
Friday Five: Needing an Epiphany
Michelle at RevGals asks, what do you do when you're spiritually stuck, and in need of an Epiphany? In no particular order: Clean. Yes, I use the trick of cleaning for lots of stress-inducing things and one would think I had an immaculate house but no, my house is clean in the fits and starts …
Star Words Sunday School
I was so taken with Marci Glass's essay on Star Words that I suggested it to my new parish here in South Carolina, where the idea has been warmly received. Our Vestryperson in charge of Youth Education graciously allowed me to co-opt the Family Sunday school scheduled for this morning and many hands making light …
Setting the World on Fire, One Flame at a Time
Once upon a time, in a far-away galaxy known as Southern California a little blonde-haired girl thought one day, she would set the world on fire. Her mother encouraged this, assuring her that if she were pretty enough, skinny enough, and okay, maybe also smart enough (like her cousin Randy, who got straight A's every …
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Friday Five: Distractions
3dogmom at RevGals asks us to list five things we use as distractions when the going gets tough. I'm super good at distracting myself most of the time. Just stay busy! Sooooo very busy! So busy I can't think about that thing I really should attend to, or the horrors of the day which lately seem …
Stereo-atypical
Julie at RevGals asks, NaBloPoMo Day 25: How do you crush a stereotype of your gender/sexual expression/race/denomination/nationality? I don't know that I crush any of them; I live a traditional life. But I think I've occasionally given a student reason to think differently about things, to maybe question a closely-held position, like this one: I was …
Je pleure, et je prie (I weep, and I pray)
You went out to a football match, a cafe', a concert on a Friday night. Went with friends to have a few drinks, maybe go clubbing later; or with family, to have a bite to eat, relax, enjoy a Fall evening. Perhaps to get lost in thrashing heavy metal. Through the night, your friends and families have rung …
Southern Fried Californian 