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ROCKIN in THE GARDEN

This past Saturday saw the arrival of the long awaited March of Madness, Bands on the Run event hosted by us for the Walker Art Teen Arts Council. The hunt went on all day and finished here at the Garden in GRAND AND AMAZING FASHION. Sara wrote an article for the Diocesan Weekly News, you can read it and click on some of the links in it to learn more, see some video and pictures as well. Read it if you get a chance. What I didn't say about it that I could have, was the beginning of the whole concert in the Sanctuary, it was, well, I don't know what it was to be honest. Anyway, I was standing in the aisle at the back of the Church, swinging some incense, teenagers walking around the city all day can be pretty ripe, and getting ready to start the concert. Meanwhile there was a "preacher" up in the pulpit going on and on about something. Suddenly the doors burst open behind me and there was the coffin some of you saw at the Church on Sunday. The pall bearers were

Being a Stalker

A long time ago I stumbled across this BattlyCry thing, an evangelical conservative attempt to save our teenagers from the Evil One, namely, from Pop Culture. Recently while I was going through my San Francisco newspapers, which I do from time to time, I stumbled across this article . What was so appalling to me was the language used to describe the "3" different classes of Christians, seekers, student and, wait for it, STALKERS! I understand the guys point, but for the love of God, he sounds like the evil one himself up there telling teenagers to be stalkers. Good God! It is sad to to see this, but it is the nature of our times right now, an unwillingness to dialogue, an unwillingness to listen, and unwillingness to embrace and offer our youth a way to live in love rather than hate. Lately, I have been told that the new trend in language is not to be tolerant anymore. We should not be tolerant of anyone, what we must do is be empathetic, we must be sympathetic, to the

A Neighborly Thing To Do

Our dear and wonderful neighbor, Summer, one of Eliot's new favorite people, is training for a triathalon this summer with Team In Training. Her website is HERE , check it out, for those of you at Church, we will be inviting her to Church, so you can meet her and if you would like can make a donation to the L&L Society. THANK YOU SUMMER, and GOOD LUCK! A+

Dismissing A Theology of Retribution

Sermon for Lent 3 Exodus 3:1-13 Psalm 63:1-8 1 Corinthians 10:1-13 Luke 13:1-9 It was the longest however many minutes of my life; I hope I never have to experience it again. When the Dr., the fellow actually, finished telling Sara and I about Leukemia, words and words that were going in one ear and out the other and how this disease was affecting our little boy, and how they would cure it, the words “cure it” screamed through my head, when he finished and had left the room, I remember this feeling of great elation, great joy, great relief and I hugged Sara like I had never held her before. It was as if I had been reborn, made new, resurrected and given new life. For a moment it was just the two of us in that room, darkness, tears, elation filling us up, we were holding each other, falling into an embrace that wasn’t our own. We squeezed each other and sobbed and simply stood there next to Eliot’s grey, metal crib while he sat there in his little yellow pajamas unfazed by all the t

I'm a Yellow Ducky!

Here is the quote I used, started and began with in my sermon, I love it. Very thought provoking. "A literalist interpretation of Scripture tells us that God is a rock that sent a bird to cause a virgin to give birth to a loaf of bread. And this is supposed to be an improvement on obtaining a chiseled code of conduct from a flaming shrubbery in a cloud. If a literal understanding is all that is required for faith, then I'm a yellow ducky." -Rabbi Ben Sylva