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Interviewing and Discerning
The Search Committee is in the middle of interviewing likely candidates and, as I said on Sunday, they find St. Paul’s very appealing, based on the Parish Profile and talking with the committee. So, while we say in the Profile that St. Paul’s has some challenges, there are plenty of interesting candidates who feel called […]
Interview Process Begins
The Search Committee has finished organizing and designing its processes, although of course we’ll modify them as we use them and learn more. The interview process has begun, which I know all of us were looking forward to. The candidates are steadily coming in (digitally, of course), and they’re from all over the country and different kinds […]
The “Politic of Despair”
A message from The Rev. Daniel Kline: On Sunday, March 31st in 1968, The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the great saints of the 20th Century, delivered a sermon at The National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. It would be the last Sunday sermon he preached before being martyred in Memphis at the […]
Rector Search update
The Search Committee has nearly completed setting up the processes for our discernment – interview questions for candidates and answers to questions they may have, based on St. Paul’s Parish Profile – and we will soon begin interviews. In the meantime, we’ve received portfolios from a number of very interesting candidates, and our parishioners have […]
Baptism – the Christian’s Constitution
One wonders why churches need to have by-laws and nations need constitutions, until this week. Amendments and corrections to ancestral documents can illustrate both the wisdom of experience and the folly of human institutions. When we deify humans or our institutions with perfection and divine nature or authority, we are asking for trouble. Older wisdom, […]
