10/07/2008
A couple of things...
By Bishop Kirk S. Smith
No one theme for reflection this week, but two comments on unrelated issues.
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09/30/2008
Nothing to fear but fear itself?
By Bishop Kirk S. Smith
I am writing this on the day the stock market lost more points than on any other day in its history. I know of few people who are not anxious. How will this affect businesses, pension plans, retirement accounts, employment, church budgets, and annual giving?
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09/24/2008
What Happens in the House of Bishops?
By Bishop Kirk S. Smith
I can remember the first time I actually witnessed a meeting of the House of Bishops, it was several years before being elected. I expected to see a group of mostly men sitting around wearing copes and mitres and discussing theology. The reality was much different—hardly as solemn or formal as I had imagined.
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09/16/2008
We are all for marriage - right?
By Bishop Kirk S. Smith
One more comment about election issues, then I am done. Last week I wrote about Prop 200, and its attempt to impose crushing debt loads on the poor.
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09/09/2008
Usury, it's still with us
By Bishop Kirk S. Smith
In just a few weeks many of you will be receiving your mail-in ballot, due to arrive about a month before the November General elections. This means that if I am going to say anything about the political process, I had better say it now.
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09/02/2008
New Year's resolutions in September
By Bishop Kirk S. Smith
Most people make their New Year's resolutions on January 1. I do mine the last few days of vacation leading up to Labor Day.
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08/26/2008
Guest E-pistle: Empowering the Family
By The Rev. Canon Carmen Guerrero
PRESCOTT - One-hundred fifty-two people from several of our churches boarded their vehicles on Aug. 15 and headed out to Chapel Rock Camp for our Third Annual Family Conference. They came from Trinity Cathedral Hispanic Mission, San Pablo Episcopal Church, St. Paul's Sudanese Mission, and the Sudanese Baptist Church. They spoke English, Spanish, Dinka, and Arabic.
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08/19/2008
Guest E-pistle: A Child Shall Lead Them
By Nancy Shumaker/Canon for Children’s Ministries
"A Child Shall Lead Them," our third annual Children's Christian Formation Conference, was one of joy, excitement and growth. Julia McCray Goldsmith, Christian Formation Coordinator for the Diocese of California, was our keynote who just by her presence and complete understanding of what Children's Ministries is and how very important our children are, brought us all to a new understanding and appreciation of the ministries we all offer whether in a large or small church. As I traveled down the hallway of The Learning Center of St. Barnabas where the conference was held, I either heard laughter, or someone asking for the glue or glitter in the arts and crafts class, or complete silence in the Benedictine practices of meditation and Bible Study and the softness of the darkened room of experiencing prayer through art, the vastness of what we do as Sunday School Teachers and coordinators of these programs was again brought home to me.
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08/12/2008
Bishop's E-pistle: Going for the Gold
By Bishop Kirk S. Smith
I am not much of a sports-fan. My friends tease me that I often don't even know who is playing each year in the World Series. However, the Olympics changes all that, for every two years (including summer and winter Olympics) I watch as much coverage as I possibly can.
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08/06/2008
A special message from Bishop Smith
By Bishop Kirk S. Smith
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, Laura and I have just returned from three weeks in England, where we attended the Lambeth Conference, the meeting of the world-wide Anglican Communion held at the invitation of the Archbishop of Canterbury every 10 years.
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