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“Wrong Side of the Tracks.”
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Christ Church, Shaker Heights
Epiphany V, Year B: Mark 1:29-39
Lately I have been speaking about the need for we Christians to focus less on belief in the deity of Christ - as expressed in the Church’s creeds and doctrines - and more on following the example of the human Jesus that we have revealed to us in the Gospels. My comments have passed as either benign ones with little reaction or have caused heads to jerk up. I recently mentioned this need to refocus our theology in a presentation I did at Fresh Start – which is a program for newly ordained and employed priests - two weeks ago. I am convinced that one of newly ordained clergy in the Diocese was so shocked by my comments, that he is now convinced that I am a heretic! Maybe you feel equally as scandalized by my statement.
But there is good reason for this re-focusing. And I am not alone in this conviction.
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The Seasons are changing
The Rev. Peter Faass September 9, 2011
Dear Christ Church parishioner,
Memorial Day and Labor Day are human contrivances that bookend the season we call summer. If we were to adhere to summer’s actual dates we would start later and end later. Yet this past Labor Day it was uncanny how the weather changed from brutally hot and humid summer to cool, windy and damp autumn in a matter of just hours. Clearly fall has arrived, although as always, I am hopeful that September and October hold the promise of sunny, warm days before we need to face the reality of another Cleveland winter.
With the change in dates and temperature comes a shift in our parish life as well as we embark on another program year.
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