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Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I just started rereading the Incarnations of Immortality series, which I have not yet read the book on Gaia, God, or Nox (which I just found out was published a few years ago).
I'm having a very hard time motivating myself to read my social psychology book, as it is using studies in which 16%, and another at 32%, of the participants conformed to group thought as proof of the power of group thought and conformity. And not too mention it has a nasty habit of painting people as typically very happy people who apparently know nothing of regret.
 
uu_sage

uu_sage

Active Member
The 1979 Prayerbook has two distinct Rites in worship- Rite I which is rendered in the pretty language of King James English while Rite II is rendered in the contemporary English to which we are accustomed. Personally I can go with the language in either Rite but I prefer Rite II in my worship. I am drawn to the Episcopal Prayerbook because the liturgy is fantastic and flexible. My fiance and I are both Christian Universalists. I come from a more Protestant background and she is from a Catholic background. Both of us are very ecumenical and I have a Catholic side myself so we found beauty in the Prayerbook and in the Episcopal Church. Other than Rite I or Rite II I also enjoy Compline, and Evensong.
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Care to share why it grabbed our interest?

And for that matter, what the differences and corrections are?


I've read a good deal of the Anglican BoC and Alternative Services, but not all of it, so it just struck me as an interesting choice. It's pretty dry going and heck... I like dry... but that stuff, after a while, gets to be like a sham-wow-ed mess... dry and bleached out as the desert in August. :D
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SageTree

SageTree

Spiritual Friend
Premium Member
uu_sage said:
The 1979 Prayerbook has two distinct Rites in worship- Rite I which is rendered in the pretty language of King James English while Rite II is rendered in the contemporary English to which we are accustomed. Personally I can go with the language in either Rite but I prefer Rite II in my worship. I am drawn to the Episcopal Prayerbook because the liturgy is fantastic and flexible. My fiance and I are both Christian Universalists. I come from a more Protestant background and she is from a Catholic background. Both of us are very ecumenical and I have a Catholic side myself so we found beauty in the Prayerbook and in the Episcopal Church. Other than Rite I or Rite II I also enjoy Compline, and Evensong.
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Awesome, thanks for sharing. I like the KJV style language, which is usually used on our Wednesday services in the Anglican Church of Canada in the Beach, Toronto and once a month as well.

I found out myself that I really like the liturgy this way myself, and also it helped me understand and follow Catholic worship when I attend them as well.

I'm UU myself as in the Organization, and in my understanding of Christianity as well, just as a side note, since you mentioned it.

About 2 years ago I was invited to an Anglican Mass and really felt quite comfortable attending it.

And, 'via media' is the theology, which I had to laugh, caught my Dharma ear/understanding ;)

Thanks for sharing Friend.
 
uu_sage

uu_sage

Active Member
I currently have an affiliation with the United Church of Christ (UCC). My current church is small and growing, a church that is very ecumenical with strong interfaith outreach. We are theological liberal and diverse. Our worship style is more blended contemporary with a contemplative element (Taize/Iona). As of June 24th, I will join All Saints Church Pasadena (Episcopal). All Saints is one of the largest Episcopal Churches at 4,000+ members and growing- it has a strong reputation for lively and spirited worship, a strong prophetic witness, spectacular preaching, a very warm welcome. I have been a friend of All Saints since 2006 and by joining All Saints it gives me an opportunity to be both UCC and Episcopal and to broaden by church family.
SageTree said:
Awesome, thanks for sharing. I like the KJV style language, which is usually used on our Wednesday services in the Anglican Church of Canada in the Beach, Toronto and once a month as well.

I found out myself that I really like the liturgy this way myself, and also it helped me understand and follow Catholic worship when I attend them as well.

I'm UU myself as in the Organization, and in my understanding of Christianity as well, just as a side note, since you mentioned it.

About 2 years ago I was invited to an Anglican Mass and really felt quite comfortable attending it.

And, 'via media' is the theology, which I had to laugh, caught my Dharma ear/understanding ;)

Thanks for sharing Friend.
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SageTree

SageTree

Spiritual Friend
Premium Member
Right on! Great to hear folks reaching out.

Some friends of mine from the Unitarian Univsersalist Church who wanted more Christianity in their worship actually went and kept going to a UCC Church in Cleveland and they've REALLY loved it.

It's always a pleasure to hear about more open and inclusive groups of Christians doing great things in the world.

It's one reason I kept going to the Anglican Church. My first Sunday going there the greeters, in a small northern logging town in British Columbia, was a Lesbian couple and their adopted daughter.... Right away I knew there was something different going on.... and I liked it!

Continued blessings,
SageTree


uu_sage said:
I currently have an affiliation with the United Church of Christ (UCC). My current church is small and growing, a church that is very ecumenical with strong interfaith outreach. We are theological liberal and diverse. Our worship style is more blended contemporary with a contemplative element (Taize/Iona). As of June 24th, I will join All Saints Church Pasadena (Episcopal). All Saints is one of the largest Episcopal Churches at 4,000+ members and growing- it has a strong reputation for lively and spirited worship, a strong prophetic witness, spectacular preaching, a very warm welcome. I have been a friend of All Saints since 2006 and by joining All Saints it gives me an opportunity to be both UCC and Episcopal and to broaden by church family.
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Dezzie

Dezzie

Well-Known Member
I am currently reading "Memnoch the Devil" by Anne Rice. I've already read more than half of this book in the past, I just never finished it. Now I am re-reading it! :)
 
Caladan

Caladan

Agnostic Pantheist
The Historical Jesus in Context

Read several of the articles published in the book already, which is the kind of material I look for on the subject.

Book description:
The Historical Jesus in Context
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is a landmark collection that places the gospel narratives in their full literary, social, and archaeological context. More than twenty-five internationally recognized experts offer new translations and descriptions of a broad range of texts that shed new light on the Jesus of history, including pagan prayers and private inscriptions, miracle tales and martyrdoms, parables and fables, divorce decrees and imperial propaganda.
The translated materials--from Christian, Coptic, and Jewish as well as Greek, Roman, and Egyptian texts--extend beyond single phrases to encompass the full context, thus allowing readers to locate Jesus in a broader cultural setting than is usually made available. This book demonstrates that only by knowing the world in which Jesus lived and taught can we fully understand him, his message, and the spread of the Gospel.
Gathering in one place material that was previously available only in disparate sources, this formidable book provides innovative insight into matters no less grand than first-century Jewish and Gentile life, the composition of the Gospels, and Jesus himself.
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Falvlun

Falvlun

Earthbending Lemur
Premium Member
I just finished "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn". Beautiful book.

The previous book I read (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) was an explosion of frenetic thought and emotion; and I was in awe that someone could think so much and so wildly. But it didn't feel real, somehow; it was like Willy Wonka's Chocolate factory, intriguing and entrancing, but ultimately, fake and unobtainable.

This one was unavoidably real. The girl and the place she so lovingly describes feels as real as the dirt underneath my fingernails. In the other book, I learned a lot of disparate facts. In this one, I learned what a whole time period in a specific location--Brooklyn-- was like for someone who actually lived it. The insights, too, into what it means to be poor, and how to retain dignity and a thirst for life, were worthwhile lessons to soak in for a while.

I much preferred this quieter, deeper book and will cherish it for a long time.
 
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