Sioux Falls levee funding freed up; work starts today
A letter from South Dakota's congressional delegation - Sens. Tim Johnson (D), John Thune (R) and Rep. Kristi Noem (R) - helped the Army Corps of Engineers to release emergency funds for work on the...
View ArticleFr. Ryan Hall weighs in on 'Targeted' Worship
He was going to comment here at NPA but the thoughts just kept on comin' and he blogged 'em there in Brookings:Costly Grace: 'Targeted' Worship"Or even in our [Anglican] tradition, when I was in...
View Article"He's in hell.""No he's not." Same mistake.
There is a passionate and welcome argument about hell going 'round the Christian commentariat.It's been generated by a popular Christian figure suggesting that if there is a hell, nobody stays in it...
View ArticleThoughts from and about St. Patrick
"One would naturally assume that the British church, which had ordained Patrick a Bishop and sent him to Ireland, would have continued to affirm his mission... This was far from the case...They seem to...
View ArticleDeacon Pat White Horse Carda (SD) - Lenten Reflection
From the Diocese of South Dakota Lenten Reflection Book: Thursday, March 17thSuggested Readings: Psalms 50, 59, 60, Deuteronomy 9:23-10:5, Hebrews 4:1-10, John 3:16-21"The great love of God towards the...
View ArticleIt's (not) the end of the world as we know it?
There's the headline: "Death rate down, life expectancy up in U.S.""•Death rates declined for heart disease (down 3.7%), cancer (1.1%), chronic lower respiratory diseases (4.1%), stroke (4.2%),...
View ArticleHell yes
Matt Perkins found this great commentary from prolific English author and lay theologian Dorothy Sayers:There seems to be a kind of conspiracy, especially among middle-aged writers of vaguely liberal...
View ArticleA collection of photos from South Dakota history
And it starts with the Deadwood stagecoach, which wasn't just a movie cliche!A parishioner sent the link on to me - there are 66 photos from a John C. Grabill collection shot in the late 1800s.
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UPDATED: Some personal connections with St. Joseph on his day
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Cathedral is a prominent landmark here in Sioux Falls.We moved here from San Juan Capistrano, CA. That is where swallows complete their spring migration and build their...
View ArticleHot Rod Anglican: a poem to his wife
I left this comment at his blog:My Lenten discipline this year is ruthless dedication to dates with my wife each week. Thank you for this. It is timely and encouraging for my soul. Hot Rod Anglican:...
View ArticlePrayers as U.S. joins military action in Libya
Allies Open Push in Libya to Block Qaddafi Assaults - NYTimes.comFrom The Book of Common Prayer (1979)For Peace: Eternal God, in whose perfect kingdom no sword is drawnbut the sword of righteousness,...
View Article"put to flight all the darkness of hatred"
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams led this prayer at the memorial for murdered Christian Pakistani Official Shahbaz Bhatti last week:"God our Father, whose power is shown in compassion and whose...
View ArticleLatest meetings show Episcopal Church fragmented, incoherent and in some...
I am still trying to make heads or tails of this:Lay and clergy Deputies of the Episcopal Church General Convention (although not all of them, just one invited guest from each geographic diocese) met...
View ArticleFr. Tony Clavier (formerly SD): Sermon at Consecration of Bp. Dan Martins
SERMON AT CONSECRATION «h/t Bryan Owens via fbExcerpts:"Eric Mascall, one of the greatest theologians of the 20th Century disliked the term 'apostolic succession.' It can mean that Anglican obsession...
View ArticleAP Feature on Indian Youth Suicide Crisis
POPLAR, Mont. | AP Enterprise: Indian youth suicide crisis baffles | The Herald - Rock Hill, SC"Suicide is the second-leading cause of death behind unintentional injuries among Indian children and...
View ArticleGood caution for bloggers... and me especially when I comment
Warning: Some language may offend.
View ArticleEpiscopal House of Bishops punted to activists, it appears
Baby Blue posts the resolution enabling a process (spending lots of church money on junkets for activists) to further mire The Episcopal Church in a narrow agenda. From resolution C056, General...
View ArticleEpiscopal Bishop gets honest: Lawsuits are for property to liquidate, not use
The usual talking point used by Episcopalians to justify spending millions of church dollars on lawsuits against other Christians is reflected here:"We have a responsibility to protect the property,...
View ArticleCranmer Blog: On this day, 455 years ago, Archbishop Cranmer was martyred
Plenty of good material, including two videos, on the genius of Anglicanism's Book of Common Prayer.There are excerpts from a 2006 sermon by the present Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, at a...
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Some great pics of Sioux Falls...
...by KELO AM Morning host Greg BelfrageHe's got all kinds of good ones at his flickr gallery.
View ArticleSome moral thoughts - and an example - from ESPN.com
When I was back in L.A. last year, I walked around the USC campus and even said a prayer over by Heritage Hall for Pat Haden, who had accepted the Athletic Director position with a clean up job in...
View ArticleSouth Dakota's Governor signs 3-day wait for abortion into law; activist...
Daugaard signs 3-day wait for abortion into law"The bill requires women to wait 72 hours between contacting an abortion provider and having an abortion. It also requires them to seek counseling with...
View ArticleJAMA needs 14 studies to find out what a South Dakotan in a driveway can tell ya
USA TODAY:"An analysis of 14 previous heart studies in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that irregular bouts of physical activity can be a trigger for a heart attack or...
View ArticleAmos 5:13
It is time for me to close the blog.First and foremost, I am finally admitting that my life as I am living it is not effective for things that matter most, and I need to take a calm look and ask God...
View ArticleDon't know if anybody's watching but...
Like a bald, out of shape rock band, I'll be appearing in some other (blog) venue... check the Anglican blogosphere on Monday, March 19th (2012, that is, in case some future civilization runs across...
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