Bear with us as there is much to catch up on, as ever–KSH.

I have been at this blog since the first part of 2003, and it is time to step back. As I am constantly insisting to my friends, none of us is indispensable, and this is a way of living that out by yours truly. Remember I told you I am the type of person who goes to bed every night just a little sad–only a little–about how much I don’t know (and still wish to find out). So moving away from the information addiction for me will not necessarily be easy–but it is important.

Posts will be catch as catch can until I let you know–KSH.

If every place and space on this planet is the fruit of God’s words years and years ago. How amazing it is the be able to travel and see all that He has made and all that He gives to us. Grateful to be hosted well and can’t wait to return the favor. #sabbath #creation #eha #rest pic.twitter.com/3QWsTlk9WE

— Jonathan Walton (@foreverfocused) August 14, 2022

The sermon starts about 23:50 in.

You can find much more Read it all.

Gian Lorenzo Bernini – Dove of the Holy Spirit (ca. 1660, stained glass) pic.twitter.com/EVgyM5g1oN

— Elisabeth Valentine (@ellievallie) August 1, 2022

Can we please just be clear that what impacts all has to be decided by all, all the pretending notwithstanding. The Anglican Communion is in broken communion as illustrated by those who are not present at the partial Lambeth gathering, and impaired communion with those present as illustrated by those who are not receiving in 2022.

This gathering isn’t deciding anything for Anglicans, nor is the present situation in the globe for Anglicans being shown by its discussions, etc, KSH.

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#SaintOfTheDay: #Saint #Barnabas and his close of associate, Saint #Paul, were charismatic leaders in #Antioch where they had enormous success. Even though Barnabas was not one of the 12, he is the one who introduced Paul to Peter. pic.twitter.com/rDS1wk5C3t

— SrStFrancisHolyCross (@gbfranciscans) June 11, 2022

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Today's pick: Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn: The Stoning of St Stephen https://t.co/SE7Dhp9CN4 pic.twitter.com/UVV4CJLZiP

— Art and the Bible (@artbible) November 21, 2019

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John Constable's Ascension (1822), one of only 3 religious paintings by the great Suffolk artist, was painted as an altarpiece for Manningtree church but now hangs in an aisle at Dedham – relegated, like all Georgian church art it seems, to a subordinate position pic.twitter.com/E4IiIScP9V

— Dr Francis Young (@DrFrancisYoung) May 13, 2021

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"The Incredulity of Saint Thomas" by Italian Baroque master Caravaggio, c. 1601–1602. In the Sanssouci Picture Gallery/Museum, Potsdam, Germany pic.twitter.com/Scr43iM0IS

— Pictures of Churches (@ChurchPictures8) July 3, 2019

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Wednesday after Easter …..
Painting by Rembrandt – Christ at Emmaus ,1648
Louvre pic.twitter.com/o8c3hiWMat

— anisja rossi (@anisja_rossi) April 20, 2022

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Entry of Christ into Jerusalem is a 1617 oil painting by Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck, located in the Indianapolis Museum of Art. It depicts #Jesus entering Jerusalem as described in the Gospels, the event celebrated on Palm Sunday. pic.twitter.com/luB13CgNYl

— EUROPEAN ART 💙💛 (@EuropeanArtHIST) February 12, 2019

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At the heart of orthodox Christian theology is an unshakable belief that God can actually change people. pic.twitter.com/HVc0mAmIku

— Shane L. Bishop (@RevShaneBishop) March 15, 2022

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“Those who ate of the loaves were five thousand.” -Mark 6:44 “Feeding the Multitudes” by Bernardo Strozzi (1600) #CatholicTwitter #MAP_OF_THE_SOUL_7 #X1_new_beginning # pic.twitter.com/f1DcqsC1KT

— Lady of Good Counsel (@ofgoodcounsel) January 7, 2020

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Old Man in Prayer #rembrandt #baroque pic.twitter.com/qa2U7KS2u9

— Rembrandt (@artistrembrandt) February 2, 2022

Blessed Father, grant that our hearts might burn with a holy desire to know you as you are, and not as we want you to be, and open the eyes of our hearts that we may see you in your biblical fullness, the Holy, loving gracious God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who with you and the Holy Spirit lives and reigns, now and forever. Amen.

good morning all and a happy Wednesday to you ! #lancashire #goodmorning @ThePhotoHour @StormHour pic.twitter.com/tHy86xJCam

— David Oxtaby (@Disc_light) February 2, 2022

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Art:
The Beatitudes Sermon
By
James Tissot
Brooklyn Museum, 1890#ReligiousArt pic.twitter.com/V66n7WT9YF

— Kalina Boulter (@KalinaBoulter) September 9, 2020

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En ce dimanche, fête du Baptême du Christ dans le
Jourdain

Et belle Téophanie aux Orthodoxes.

Ici, fresque de Pietro della Francesca (fin XVe s.) pic.twitter.com/a2IUu84gvT

— AcierEtTranchées (@AcierEt) January 9, 2022

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Night nativity. Starring ox & ass. Baby J rather small and quite hard to find. But follow the light! By Hans Baldung Grien, whose day was today. pic.twitter.com/iIHfdJcQKl

— Dr. Peter Paul Rubens (@PP_Rubens) September 23, 2020

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Today's pick: Rogier van der Weyden: John the Baptist https://t.co/T2J2vnlzAk pic.twitter.com/9lPjzGIAUd

— Art and the Bible (@artbible) December 6, 2021

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'Ezra in prayer', Book of Ezra 9:6. Engraving by Gustave Doré pic.twitter.com/xjovJG5igr

— Y💖Philippians2:10-11📖Romans12:2✨#Anti-idolatry🔥 (@doorzienigheid) December 30, 2020

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Join us this Sunday, November 14, 2021, as we, in The Anglican Diocese of South Carolina, pray for the work and ministry of Holy Cross, Sullivan's Island & Daniel Island and their clergy. View the full prayer calendar here: https://t.co/ivAZ8qcpfR #CycleOfPrayer #ADOSC pic.twitter.com/1fJhTgL3lC

— Anglican Diocese of SC (@anglican_sc) November 12, 2021

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A Church attuned to the Spirit of surprise:

In human terms, Philip took the wrong road – and there he was met by the Spirit of God, who showed him why he was in the middle of the desert. And he found himself speaking to someone who was the wrong person, in human eyes. It was the wrong recipient of God’s message; Luke always points us to the Gospel for the excluded. The Ethiopian was a foreigner so could not enter the temple, a eunuch so wrongly considered by the people of his time to be outside God’s purpose. He was doubly outside

Luke’s stories in Gospel and Acts are of refugees, the poor, those of no honour. Seen in hospitals, schools, prisons, rubbish dumps and food centres. Seen here in the past and now.

Yet in God’s eyes there was nothing wrong. This was the right time, right road, right scripture, right person, right opportunity for baptism.

The Bible tells us to be where the Spirit sends us, not by human wisdom, and the Gospel reading shows us the foundation of what Philip was doing.

Read it all.

Great joy to celebrate the new Anglican Province of Alexandria at All Saints’ Cathedral in Cairo this evening. May it draw on the history of the saints and their inspiration; and may it proclaim the Gospel afresh in this generation! pic.twitter.com/vV9b6eQQOH

— Archbishop of Canterbury (@JustinWelby) October 8, 2021

Sacrifice of Isaac – Caravaggio, c. 1603. (Uffizi Gallery, Florence). #art pic.twitter.com/r46nfBEQLD

— EUROPEAN ART 💭 (@EuropeanArtHIST) November 8, 2020

On [a] Monday [in September 2003], the last of the 343 firefighters who died on September 11th was buried. Because no remains of Michael Ragusa, age 29, of Engine Company 279, were found and identified, his family placed in his coffin a very small vial of his blood, donated years ago to a bone-marrow clinic. At the funeral service Michael’s mother Dee read an excerpt from her son’s diary on the occasion of the death of a colleague. “It is always sad and tragic when a fellow firefighter dies,” Michael Ragusa wrote, “especially when he is young and had everything to live for.” Indeed. And what a sobering reminder of how many died and the awful circumstances in which they perished that it took until this week to bury the last one.

So here is to the clergy, the ministers, rabbis, imams and others, who have done all these burials and sought to help all these grieving families. And here is to the families who lost loved ones and had to cope with burials in which sometimes they didn’t even have remains of the one who died. And here, too, is to the remarkable ministry of the Emerald Society Pipes and Drums, who played every single service for all 343 firefighters who lost their lives. The Society chose not to end any service at which they played with an up-tempo march until the last firefighter was buried.

On Monday, in Bergen Beach, Brooklyn, the Society therefore played “Garry Owen” and “Atholl Highlander,” for the first time since 9/11 as the last firefighter killed on that day was laid in the earth. On the two year anniversary here is to New York, wounded and more sober, but ever hopeful and still marching.

–First published on this blog September 11, 2003

We will never forget. 🕊 #neverforget #911 pic.twitter.com/E1xu8T4JFr

— NAPF (@the_napf) September 10, 2021