Feb

Spare the Rod, Spoil the Student

Posted by Steve Published in Culture, Leadership, Mission

Ran across this article to which I replied, AMEN! It has cross application to both child-rearing as well as to parish life and leadership: A while back, I had a student with a serious attitude problem. Let’s call her “Sue.” On the first day of an art course in which I first encountered Sue, my [...]

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Feb

Friday Morning Video: Tim Wood Testimony

Posted by Steve Published in Changed Lives, Empowered Living, St. Andrew's, Video

Yes, that’s my boy.

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Feb

When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be

Posted by Steve Published in Poetry

When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripen’d grain; When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace [...]

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Feb

Around the Horn: 2.2.12

Posted by Steve Published in Culture, _samp

Pondering Psalm 139 ”Before I let you see your baby, I have to tell you that there’s something wrong with her”. I cannot even begin to imagine the sorrow of hearing such words. You see, I have four children of my own now; and, truly, the only thing I wished for them was health. I [...]

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Feb

26

Posted by Steve Published in Changed Lives, Relationships

Happy 26th Anniversary, Wifey!

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Jan

Anglican Congregations Move Forward After Losing Buildings

Posted by Steve Published in Anglicanism, TEC/General Convention

This very nice article appeared this past Saturday in the Akron Beacon Journal. Once upon a time, I was Rector of St. Anne in the Fields, Madison, OH and Chief of Staff at St. Luke’s, Bath, OH. I was blessed, and am thankful, to have served both parishes. I was pleased to read of how [...]

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Jan

Worst Church Singer Ever (video)

Posted by Steve Published in Video

H/T: Daron

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Jan

Interesting Stats for the Diocese of South Carolina

Posted by Steve Published in TEC/General Convention

Over at his blog Kendall Harmon had interesting stats for the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia. Being a slow Saturday, I was curious to see the same stats for the Diocese of South Carolina. According to the U.S.Census Bureau’s figures, Charleston, the see city of the diocese, has grown in population from 96,650 in 2000 to 120,083 [...]

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Jan