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Patrick Hall
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Patrick Hall's Groups
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Virginia Theological Seminary
(6 members)
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Emerging in the Episcopal Diocese of Texas
(10 members)
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TEC (The Episcopal Church)
(79 members)
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Jul 12
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- The Episcopal Church USA
- Your Diocese
- Texas
- Your City
- Houston, TX
- Your Parish
- Holy Spirit Episcopal Church
- Your parish website
- http://www.hsechurch.org
- Your Anglican 'Species'
- Priest
- Your 'Day Job'
- Associate at an aged suburban parish with high stability, low passion, and nice people.
- What you do for fun and re-creation?
- Play and sing wherever I can get away with it. Write songs. Dream of getting off the "parish priest" conveyor belt, and doing some kind of ministry that makes my colleagues at clergy conference really nervous.
- What do you see as some of the biggest challenges facing Anglicans today?
- (GLOBAL) Not melting down into a festering stew of bullshit liberal/conservative North/South partisan anger.
(GLOBAL) Getting lean and mean by dropping the baggage of rigid Victorian clericalism.
(LOCAL) Moving our people out of the "Pledge Cards 'n Sundays" model of church, and into the kingdom habits and Spiritual disciplines of Jesus.
(ALWAYS AND EVERYWHERE) Expecting nothing less than whole-life discipleship from ourselves and our people
- What do you see as some of the biggest opportunities for Anglicans today?
- Becoming a credible example of real partnership across the Global North/South gap
Grabbing hold of our unsung legacy as a holiness church with genuine ancient roots (see Wesley/Taylor et al)
Become a thriving institutional resource with some real experience in the muddy middle for emergents everywhere
- What do you want Anglimergent to be? and what other Anglimergent resources, gatherings, activities or events would you find helpful for your ministry?
- A place to connect, a place to conversate, a place to rejoice, a place to send ideas to ruminate, a place to ask for and solicit prayer. NOT a place to swap trite formulas, NOT a place to shop "best practices," NOT a place to be contemptuous about others who "aren't on our band wagon" (I do that enough as it is).
Patrick Hall's Blog
The Undercover Miracle of Forgiveness
What follows is an article by Christiane Amanpour for cnn.com. I wonder whether her portrayal of Kagame is not a little rosy. But the story itself is the Kingdom at work. It can be retrieved at http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/05/15/amanpour.rwanda/index.html
What does Macy's have to do with healing from genocide? Nothing and everything.
Fourteen years after Hutu extremists killed between 800,000 and 1 million people -- mostly Tutsis -- in a devastating slaughter, Rwandan women are… Continue
Posted on May 15th, 2008 at 1:09pm —
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The Thoughtfully Crafted Question - with some help from Rob Bell
The Episcopal Diocese of Texas will be electing a new bishop this month. Tomorrow is the walkabout with the candidates here in Houston where I live. I've decided that my vote will be determined, for the most part, by the way the candidates answer the following question. The quoted section is from Rob Bell's Velvet Elvis.
Several of us dream of starting "new kinds of communities that put the love of God and the brilliance of Jesus on display in honest, compelling ways." We dream of churches t… Continue
Posted on May 9th, 2008 at 11:16pm —
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Happy Crossmas! Why Easter Can't be Commercialized
The following is an article written by James Martin for slate.com. It can be retrieved at http://www.slate.com/id/2186633/
Sending out hundreds of Easter cards this year? Attending way too many Easter parties? Doing some last-minute shopping for gifts to place under your Easter tree? Getting tired of those endless Easter-themed specials on television?
I didn't think so.
Unlike Christmas, whose deeper spiritual meaning has been all but buried under an annual avalanche of commercialism,… Continue
Holy Wednesday Meditations on Matthew 27
Just offered these here at Holy Spirit, they seemed to fly. In that, "provoking reflection" way. Use/tweak/don't use/hate/discuss/criticize/etc. If you want to use them, do so freely. No attributions necessary.
Imagine with me a man, his back torn open by repeated whippings, stumbling down a dirt road in the midst of a solemn and grotesque procession. He is dark-skinned, the kind of person who wouldn’t be let on an airplane. He looks like the people we see in news clips from Iraq and Pal… Continue
Posted on March 19th, 2008 at 9:00am —
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AMAZING question for the candidates! I can't wait to hear what the responses are. (Other than looks of sheer terror...)
We could use some funds to buy a 'real' communion set. I've always wanted one with 2 chalices silver plated from Almy. Our only other partner church in Seattle made us an altar, as before for 4 years, all we had was a tiny cafe table, so now we have a 'rea'l altar when we want to use one, but we will do funky stuff, like for Easter season we are using a coffee table.
We are also seeking funds to help us fund a part time music director position by fall.
A dream sponsorship is two year pledge of $ 6,000 per year in mission support. ($ 500 a month or 1,500 per quarter). For our part, we send you quarterly update of our mission, occasional gifts we make (like music CDs) and we can host any visitors from your community who come up for a mission trip of some sort and advise you on anything we may have skills in and share our ideas for innovation of all sorts + other relational things that just seem happen once a partnership is established.
We need about 5 of such sponsoring congregations for the next two years and we only have one. We aim to become a parish within 2-3 years from now. We need help until we reach this level.
Would this be doable for you? If not such a monthly pledge, then taking a special offering for us can also work.
We dream of having such partners... as it is challenging being an emerging generations Episcopal church plant made up of mostly poor students.
Might Holy Spirit up to partner with a wild Seattle mission?
We as have low stability and high passion to swap!
Greg
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