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Email scam targets clergy, lay leaders
posted on Dec 7, 2022 Diocesan House staff has heard from a number of clergy and lay leaders that they are receiving fraudulent emails that ask for money, gift cards, or other favors posing as Bishop Richards, or other clergy leaders. Please know that Bishop Richards...
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Rule of Life and the How
posted on Nov 4, 2022 It would be silly for me to expect to show up in uniform at a professional football game and play like a pro quarterback. When the game is on the line, and Tom Brady puts his hands out to receive the football, he is doing something he has rehe...
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Safe Church Training
Safe Church Updates (September 2022)
posted on Sep 30, 2022 As some of you may already know, sexual exploitation and harassment training supported by The Episcopal Church has been in the midst of transition for several years: new policies have been approved, a new curriculum has been developed, and a ...
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Archdeacon d'Rue Hazel accepts new call in Diocese of Virginia
posted on Sep 22, 2022 Archdeacon d'Rue Hazel has accepted a call to serve as Canon to the Ordinary to Bishop-elect Mark E. Stevenson following his consecration as Bishop in December. Archdeacon Hazel has served the diocese of Upper South Carolina for over two dec...
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Living in the Reign of God, Continued
posted on Sep 21, 2022 As we return to the backroads of the South, both of my childhood and last weekend, we turn back to the call to repent. Repent! It should get an exclamation point if you see it along the backroads-bonus points for hand-painted flames. My favo...
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Living in the Reign of God
posted on Sep 10, 2022 Driving along the backroads of the Diocese of Upper South Carolina, there are nostalgic moments that put me back in the South of my childhood. Old bridges, farms, and rolling hills. Elementary schoolyards in summer, empty but for the weeds. Small...
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Commentary: After Dobbs, Christians face a changing landscape and an unchanging Word
posted on Jul 2, 2022 This article was orignally written for and published on Post and Courier .
The landscape of the desert is laid bare after a flood. The effects of erosion from wind and water have visible expression in the carved surfaces of vast plains cut by...
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Memory, Grief, and more Prayers
posted on Jun 17, 2022 June 17, 2022 We grieve with our siblings at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, Vestavia Hills, Alabama. Today, the Presiding Bishop Michael Curry is in Charleston participating in the remembrance of the massacre at Mother Emanuel AME Church seve...
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EDUSC deputation gathers in preparation for General Convention
posted on Jun 8, 2022 Each spring before General Convention, the deputations from each Province IV diocese come together for Synod, intending to ready ourselves for the triennial gathering. This year, we met at Camp McDowell in Alabama in late April. (You may know t...
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Other Guides
posted on May 23, 2022 Backpacking in the desert has one problem before all others: water. When doing long solo hikes, it was not really possible to carry all that one person needed for more than a couple of days, at least it was not for me. So I had to have water sour...
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