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ndo sentinel i helped facilitate the huffpo article in a minor way probably but their religion editor the rev paul raushenbush contacted me and i did what i could aside he s a descendant of walter rauschenbusch the social gospel theologian and author whose feast day is july 2 i ve also been in touch with him about a letter i wrote with 19 co signers asking the attorney general of new york state to investigate whether laws have been broken at gts i organized that initiative on facebook it s been reported in three or four church publications in the usa and britain these activities have taken my time and they re not directly related to the daily office i should have been organizing our retreat this summer at waycross and putting together the registration form i promised to post last monday i hope to get to that later today i don t really feel bad about any of this if anything i feel proud of what i ve done whether it s ultimately effective or not but i feel this tension between my job and my vocation for some reason god seems to have given me an ability and a willingness to speak up and take action about problems other people notice but don t know what to do with i ve done it all my life what seems obvious to me does not seem obvious to anyone else but when i propose a way forward they respond with real help and support i seem to be one of those fools who rush in where angels fear to tread except it s never the angels who are afraid it s the humans from marching with a few hundred others in the stonewall 5 demonstration in new york when i was 23 back when these were protest marches not pride parades to saving the school of social work from the wrecking ball at my alma mater to being the first openly gay person to use his full real name in the newspaper in cincinnati to freeing nigeria s only gay activist from threats on his life by the government and anglican church thugs to starting the world s second oldest aids organization and many more examples i just find myself at the center of the action sometimes when i was an undergraduate the president of the university of cincinnati wanted to abolish the college of community services and move the school of social work from there to the college of education it would have meant that social work lost its accreditation it could be an independent school or part of a similar professional college but not education students and faculty wrung their hands no one knew how to stop the president the board of trustees were getting ready to vote on it our degrees would soon be worthless so i piped up and said i know how to stop this we organized yes for ccs made up flyers contacted the media held a protest march i ran for the student senate 33 years later the urban university still has an accredited school of social work i continue to marvel at all the impotent hang wringing social work refers to community organizing not cranking out caseworkers and psychotherapists if i m correct that this is part of my vocation from god you can see why i get caught up in such things and don t feel sorry about it later i m from this era not the giant public party era brought to you by some brand of vodka we re going to get that baby baptized i promise the homophobic bishop is meeting with the parents right now as i write this trying to tap dance his way out of the public relations disaster he and the cathedral dean created the baby s parents have done everything episcopalians ask and expect of them prior to baptism and there is no justification for delaying this child s salvation no matter how warped the theology of that dean this is the baby waiting for salvation and for justice snoozing next to one of his dads the kid s name is jack let s pray for them the dean s theology of baptism probably isn t what s warped it s his theology of human sexuality but since he mixed the two up in one horrible decision my phrase applies phrases are what i m good at if you haven t noticed phrases are how i ve won almost every public battle i ve ever been in so now i m going to post two more services and try to design that registration form with a free trial from constant contact i m also awaiting a call from our adobe connect salesman meanwhile here s a video by the labyrinth designer john e ridder of indianapolis whom i m trying to line up for our retreat i walked on one of his portable mazes last saturday during a quiet day at my parish run by amy paget who will be staffing our retreat pray that god gives me enough hours in the day posted in daily office retreat video 3 comments april 28 2015 by josh thomas a smaller crowd means a shorter service now let s plan on a bigger crowd we just finished this morning s daily office webcast and gwen remarked on its brevity attendance was only 14 including one visitor lower attendance than usual is what made it shorter even though it was 2 minutes longer than it s supposed to be but every day we get new people trying us out the site itself is growing by leaps and bounds especially because of facebook and twitter and now i m wondering what we d do with twice as many people we need to start expecting them clint led a smooth service today and even called on me to help read the psalm i don t usually read because i m producing and we want everyone else to participate as much as possible he and i have always worried a bit about how long the service runs people are busy in the morning whether they re with us live or watching later it s very common that someone who s joined us live has to leave before the end of the service which is perfectly okay we re glad every time someone joins us for any portion of the service there are several ways to look at the question of service length the first is that it takes however long it takes so no apologies but the longer it runs the less likely that someone will join us at all of our 5000 followers only 0 5 have ever attended a live webcast on any given day we re very glad therefore that we can record the service and make it available for streaming immediately h t adobe connect we know that a 9 a m start time is too late for the east while a 5 a m service is too early for the west this is a big continent and no single time will work for everyone if we had the staff to run four webcasts starting each one at 7 or 8 a m per time zone that would be ideal but we don t have the staff for that and with only 25 people joining our big national webcast trying to run four services per morning is impractical having said that i remain a bit frustrated that we run long every day and my annoyance is compounded by my sad lack of diplomacy and tact because i don t feel i can say anything to speed us up without someone getting their feelings hurt if we had a 30 minute slot on radio or tv the management would pull the plug on us at 28 or 29 so the next show could come on i admit i ve had fantasies of doing that at times but this isn t radio so we do run on then my frustration builds up until i feel like a diva about to have a tantrum miss ross giving a peon the stare down any number of glitches can slow us down when we first started webcasting we spent weeks replaying that old cell phone commercial can you hear me now time and technology finally solved that for the most part some newcomers actually arrive now knowing more or less how to turn on and mute their microphones thank you newbies others just show up and no matter how hard we try we may or may not be able to teach them how to participate we lose a lot of people because they don t know what a system preference is they get frustrated or embarrassed and leave it breaks our hearts we ought to run sound checks on everyone every day before the service but the regulars are so busy gabbing including me we never get to do that so we end up with marlene who s way too loud and pedro who s gabbing of course is half the fun this isn t radio it s church seeing each other is part of why we come starting tomorrow i m implementing two new policies at 5 minutes before the hour we do sound checks the officiant will announce it and start calling on people in alphabetical order to speak one phrase of the lord s prayer after each one s he ll say too loud too soft just right we won t catch latecomers this way but it will greatly improve our quality it will also be a reminder that we re here for god first each other second and the public third let s not leave out the public who are sitting there watching the playback and thinking why don t they make pedro speak up but the real issue is something else i ve been working my way up to this see i never planned when i first started that we would spend any time on extemporaneous intercessions i think it was actually clint s idea and now i m glad he did it because it adds a lot to the service knowing what s on each person s mind some people come specifically because they re worried and need to speak their prayer before god and other people we are glad for every prayer like that clint was right but when we first started saying individual prayers i assumed each one would be very brief like they are in church when the congregation is invited to add their own prayers in church people whisper one on top of the other and god hears every one but we can t do it that way we re all mic d up so we take turns otherwise it s cacophony we ve learned to take turns still the more people the more prayers and the longer the service how do we balance this when we start having 50 people someday some of our members are very good about keeping their prayer short and sweet it s a skill and they re thoughtful about it you know who you are some people just let it spill out that s fine we re not judging the economy of your prayer it may take you a few words of explanation so we know what you re really praying about go ahead tell us so we can pray along but please no orations from anyone if someone is sick just say their name and get it over with so we can move on please put the rest of it in the chat box once the suspension period is done tonya has a new doctor and she always hates it when she has to see someone new by the way clint that suspension period for prayers only no chatter is really excellent reminder do not violate anyone s privacy it s easier to do than you think even if you don t say their last name if you have friends in real time who know that you re close to kurt they ll know exactly who you mean with this parody prayer oh lord kurt s come down with the clap again so i pray that his penicillin shot will work say what i m also making a structural change in our liturgy starting immediately our video hymn will come before the final blessing which will be pronounced by a priest or deacon if one is present or by the officiant this is a theological matter as well as a liturgical one since it s my job to watch over both the change starts now our webcast recording will end with the liturgical blessing and nothing further will be said we should send people away with the blessing and not more mindless yabble from us we ll still bless each other as we depart but that will take place among friends posted in daily office jesus christ site news webcasts 2 comments march 24 2015 by josh thomas commission proposes deleting some saints adding others the rev dr ruth meyers chair of the standing commission on liturgy and music of the episcopal church is a faculty member at church divinity school of the pacific cdsp photo the standing commission on liturgy and music of the episcopal church has proposed in a report to the general convention upcoming in july that commemorations of the following saints be dropped 4 12 adoniram judson missionary to burma 1850 4 22 john muir naturalist and writer 1914 and hudson stuck priest and environmentalist 1920 7 1 harriet beecher stowe writer and prophetic witness 1896 7 12 nathan soderblom archbishop of uppsala and ecumenist 1931 7 13 conrad weiser witness to peace and reconciliation 1760 8 23 toribio de mogrovejo 1606 retaining martin de porres 1639 and rosa de lima 1617 witnesses to the faith in south america 9 3 prudence crandall teacher and prophetic witness 1890 9 8 nikolai grundtvig bishop and hymnwriter 1872 9 8 soren kierkegaard teacher and philosopher 1855 10 19 william carey missionary to india 1834 12 10 karl barth pastor and theologian 1968 12 15 john horden bishop and missionary in canada 1893 12 15 robert mcdonald priest 1913 12 17 william lloyd garrison 1879 retaining maria stewart 1879 prophetic witness 12 19 lillian trasher missionary in egypt 1961 12 22 charlotte diggs lottie moon missionary in china 1912 i would hate to see most of them go especially since they don t propose getting rid of sarah hale author of mary had a little lamb or the utterly depraved theologian john knox the commission proposes adding these saints gladys aylward 1 3 amma syncletica of alexandria 1 5 caesaria of arles 1 12 marcella 1 31 scholastica religious 543 2 10 katherine drexel 4 3 mary of egypt 4 3 kateri tekakwitha 4 17 maria gabriella sagheddu 4 22 marie de l incarnation educator and spiritual teacher in new france 1672 4 30 helena protector of the holy places 330 5 21 olga of kiev 7 11 bridget of sweden founder of bridgettine order 1373 7 23 jane frances de chantal religious 8 12 paula and eustochium 9 28 mother theodore anne therese guerin religious educator prophetic witness 1856 10 3 elizabeth fry prison reformer 1845 10 12 catherine of alexandria 11 5 elizabeth of the trinity 11 8 gertrude the great and mechtilde of hackeborn 11 16 dorothy day 11 29 ella baker 12 13 emily ayckbowm founder of the sisters of the community of the church 1870 kate harwood waller barrett etheldred berry mary mcleod bethune louise de koven bowen hull house josephine butler anna bessant cassey and henrietta lockwood rosa judith cisneros florence converse ella cara deloria native american poet and writer helen fuller ann gream angelina and sarah grimke sister margaret hawk church army native american activist addie d waites hunton satoko kitahara susan trevor knapp ny training school for deaconesses eva lee matthews and beatrice henderson victoria earle matthews author and settlement house worker 1907 eleanor laura mcmain harriet o brien monsell maria montessori anna newell st margaret s house berkeley phoebe palmer katherine parr ellen albertina polyblank sister albertina elizabeth ann rogers sister beatrice richeldis of faverches eleanor roosevelt dorothy sayers mary kingsbury simkovitch greenwich house nyc therese of lisieux adeline blanchard tyler ruth elaine younger mother ruth chs i don t know enough about most of them to have an opinion but as a church army man i am well acquainted with sr margaret hawk i would rather have her described as an evangelist or lay minister than church army which is not a title or native american activist which is obvious from her biography this catherine parr one of henry viii s many wives attributed to master john you ll notice that all the new names are women the...