It isn't often that I directly cite another blog in mine... But this one amused me... It is on Ruth Gledhill's blog, Articles of Faith, on Timesonline. Generally her blog is almost totally interested in the "affairs" (and I use that word advisedly) of the Anglican Communion in all its forms, and so I don't visit it much. But I picked up on this one because it includes a short essay by one of my favourite writers, Garrison Keillor. It is his reflections on the American Episcopalian Church. Anyone like to cite a similar list of characteristics for their own denominational tradition?
A short responsive psalm for us as a call to worship on Harvest Thanksgiving Sunday, and given that it was pouring with rain as I headed into church this morning the first line is an important remembrance that the rain we moan about is an important component of the fruitfulness of the land we live in: You tend the land and water it And the earth produces its abundance. You crown each year with your bounty, and our storehouses overflow with your goodness. The mountain meadows are covered with flocks and the valleys are filled with corn; Your people celebrate your boundless grace They shout for joy and sing. from Psalm 65
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