The Ordination of Jason Clark and Josh Weaver to the Order of Deacons St. Paul’s Chattanooga | Acts 6:2-7 | Luke 22:24-27 “Is there a need for deacons in the Episcopal Diocese of East Tennessee?” That very question was posed to me in a meeting last week. The person who asked the question was a man who had come to see me, to inquire about beginning a process of discernment, to discover, with a listening community, whether he was being called to
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15th Sunday after Pentecost 2018 – Christ Church Rugby Song of Solomon 2:8-13 | Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 “Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.” Amen. The man in the back of the room is very upset. He doesn’t think anyone believes the Bible anymore. He keeps asking you about the little black book with the gold cross on the front. As he says these words, he continually sketches with his fingers in the air an image of a
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