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Bishop Lawrence has called for a meeting of all parochial clergy of the diocese who have seat, voice and vote at the Convention for Thursday, September 2, 2010. The meeting will begin at 10:30 a.m. at St. Paul's in Summerville. In preparation for the meeting clergy are asked to review a copy of the Title IV canon changes passed at the last General Convention. This will be central to tomorrow's discussions. View the document. Clergy are encouraged to bring a printed copy of the document with them to the meeting.
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Episcopal Church (TEC) • General Convention 2009 • TEC Bishops • TEC Parishes • TEC Polity & Canons • * Christian Life / Church Life • Parish Ministry • Ministry of the Ordained • * South Carolina
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Episcopal Church (TEC) • TEC Conflicts • TEC Parishes • * South Carolina • * Theology • Pastoral Theology
Filed under: * General Interest • Humor / Trivia • * South Carolina
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Episcopal Church (TEC) • TEC Bishops • * Christian Life / Church Life • Parish Ministry • Ministry of the Ordained • * South Carolina
So far this year, only one job opens for every three people sitting in the seats at the satellite office where folks travel for miles to file unemployment claims and apply for new work.
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Filed under: * Economics, Politics • Economy • Corporations/Corporate Life • Labor/Labor Unions/Labor Market • * South Carolina
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Episcopal Church (TEC) • TEC Bishops • * South Carolina
According to Parade Magazine, "The campus itself is a piece of history located in the heart of Charleston's historic district, and students studying historic preservation and arts management (Charleston is home to the Spoleto Festival) have a living laboratory at their disposal. Marine biology is also very strong."
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch • Education • * South Carolina
1. The whole Bible is not read in the Sunday lectionary.
2. Difficult texts are eliminated from the lectionary.
3. Controversial texts are eliminated from the lectionary.
4. Lectionary texts are a set up for preachers to think isogetically about preaching; in the same way, lectionary reading also allows the congregation to go for years without hearing biblical texts in their contexts.
5. The traditional idea of lectionary preaching from the previous generation makes one of two mistakes. It either only preaches from the Gospel texts thus eliminating the 2 Tim. 3:16 understanding of Scripture. There are people who can go for years or a lifetime without hearing a sermon on the Old Testament. The other mistake of lectionary preaching is to try and force a common thread through the four (or three) readings that does not exist exegetically. For every sermon I preach on a biblical text, there are supporting texts. The lectionary readings tend to force the preacher towards finding that support in the appointed texts.
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Episcopal Church (TEC) • * Christian Life / Church Life • Parish Ministry • Ministry of the Ordained • * South Carolina • * Theology • Theology: Scripture
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Anglican Identity • Episcopal Church (TEC) • TEC Conflicts • TEC Conflicts: Central Florida • TEC Conflicts: Fort Worth • TEC Conflicts: Pittsburgh • TEC Conflicts: San Joaquin • * Christian Life / Church Life • Church History • * Culture-Watch • Law & Legal Issues • * South Carolina • * Theology • Ecclesiology • Ethics / Moral Theology • Pastoral Theology
Since the recession officially hit in December 2007, some 3,300 people a month, on average, have signed up for Medicaid in a state that outpaces the nation for poverty, obesity and diseases such as diabetes. Yet, South Carolina's political leaders have been among the most vocal in the country in opposition of the new health care law....
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch • Health & Medicine • --The 2009 American Health Care Reform Debate • Law & Legal Issues • Poverty • * Economics, Politics • Economy • Housing/Real Estate Market • Labor/Labor Unions/Labor Market • The Credit Freeze Crisis of Fall 2008/The Recession of 2007-- • The U.S. Government • Politics in General • State Government • * South Carolina
The state's chief economic forecaster John Rainey said Thursday that South Carolinians who have jobs are working harder than ever before and that record high productivity combined with new technological advances will keep unemployment higher for longer.
In other words, if companies can get by getting more out of less -- they will.
"I think high unemployment, unfortunately, is here to stay," Rainey said after analyzing state unemployment data and revenue collections at the Board of Economic Advisors meeting.
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Filed under: * Economics, Politics • Economy • Labor/Labor Unions/Labor Market • Politics in General • State Government • * South Carolina
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Episcopal Church (TEC) • * Christian Life / Church Life • Church History • Spirituality/Prayer • * South Carolina
Teachers will be easing children back into the learning world after lazy summer days. Food service workers will be preparing the first day's lunch.
And school counselor Tammy Masopust will be helping out in any way she's needed, while quietly watching for the subtle signs that indicate students might be having problems.
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch • Children • Education • * South Carolina
So The Post and Courier asked a few local clergy to write about their vacations (real or hoped for). Do they get any downtime?...
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Episcopal Church (TEC) • * Religion News & Commentary • Other Churches • * South Carolina • * Theology • Pastoral Theology
Anglican theologian Ashley Null, a chaplain for the U.S. Olympic team, led a discussion about pressures on youth ministers to entertain, draw numbers and "fix kids."
The push to perfection for both youth ministers and youth can be destructive, he said. "Are you pursuing perfection to your own harm?" he asked. He urged ministers to embrace God's grace and love of imperfection.
"Love does strange things to us," he said. "We gladly make changes out of love."
Read it all and enjoy thew lovely picture of Ashley Null.
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Episcopal Church (TEC) • TEC Parishes • * Christian Life / Church Life • Parish Ministry • Youth Ministry • * South Carolina • * Theology
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Episcopal Church (TEC) • * South Carolina
Monthly home sales data released Tuesday show that 643 area homes sold during July, a striking drop-off from the 1,022 transactions recorded in June.
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Filed under: * Economics, Politics • Economy • Corporations/Corporate Life • Housing/Real Estate Market • Labor/Labor Unions/Labor Market • Personal Finance • The 2009 Obama Administration Housing Amelioration Plan • The Banking System/Sector • The Credit Freeze Crisis of Fall 2008/The Recession of 2007-- • * South Carolina
Board members had planned to put an eight-year sales tax increase on voters' ballots in November, but a lack of business community support and revised revenue figures led them to reduce it by two years. The six-year tax would generate an estimated $75 million per year for a total of $450 million.
The money would go toward building 14 new schools, renovating four schools, acquiring land in three developments, conducting seismic evaluations of six buildings, creating design plans for one school and improving existing schools' athletic facilities.
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch • Education • * Economics, Politics • Economy • Taxes • The Credit Freeze Crisis of Fall 2008/The Recession of 2007-- • Politics in General • City Government • * South Carolina
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Episcopal Church (TEC) • TEC Bishops • * South Carolina • * Theology • Pastoral Theology
But tuition did the same thing during better times, when lawmakers raised higher education funding.
While lawmakers and college officials point the finger of blame at each other, annual tuition increases over the past decade have nearly tripled the cost of a four-year degree from a South Carolina public university.
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch • Education • * Economics, Politics • Politics in General • State Government • * South Carolina
To be sure, notable restraints on the recovery persist. The housing market has remained weak, with the overhang of vacant or foreclosed houses weighing on home prices and new construction. Similarly, poor economic fundamentals and tight credit are holding back investment in nonresidential structures, such as office buildings, hotels, and shopping malls.
Importantly, the slow recovery in the labor market and the attendant uncertainty about job prospects are weighing on household confidence and spending....
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Filed under: * Economics, Politics • Economy • Consumer/consumer spending • Corporations/Corporate Life • Credit Markets • Housing/Real Estate Market • Labor/Labor Unions/Labor Market • Personal Finance • Stock Market • The Banking System/Sector • The Credit Freeze Crisis of Fall 2008/The Recession of 2007-- • The U.S. Government • Budget • Federal Reserve • The National Deficit • Politics in General • State Government • * South Carolina
Bernanke could speak with a degree of authority on the topic, having attended public schools in tiny Dillon, where he also worked for three summers at the famous South of the Border tourist attraction.
"When I attended public schools in South Carolina in the 1960s, measures of per-pupil spending, years of schooling, and student achievement in the South lagged significantly behind other parts of the country," the Fed chief said in a speech at the Southern Legislative Conference in Charleston. "Since then, those indicators have changed, very much for the better."
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Filed under: * Economics, Politics • Economy • Consumer/consumer spending • Corporations/Corporate Life • Credit Markets • Housing/Real Estate Market • Labor/Labor Unions/Labor Market • Personal Finance • The Credit Freeze Crisis of Fall 2008/The Recession of 2007-- • The U.S. Government • Federal Reserve • Politics in General • State Government • * South Carolina
Almighty God, we bless thee for moving thy servant Samuel Ferguson to minister in Liberia, expanding the missionary vision of thy Church in education and ministry. Stir up in us a zeal for thy mission and a yearning for thy holy Word; through Jesus Christ, who with thee and the Holy Spirit livest and reignest, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Filed under: * Christian Life / Church Life • Spirituality/Prayer • * South Carolina
The dead are laid to rest in historic cemeteries such as Magnolia, in cemeteries run by burial societies that operate today on a shoestring and in unmarked graves throughout the Lowcountry. But it's the churchyards, with their generations at rest, that most vividly remind people of the ways in which the past is populated by religious and political leaders, laborers, soldiers, mothers and fathers, and children taken too soon. At an old Lowcountry church, where parking lots fill and worshippers gather, one can grasp the link between past and present -- the continuity of history.
Fifty years ago, the majority of burials still took place in churchyards, said Johnny Stuhr of Stuhr Funeral Homes. Today, most churchyards, especially those on the Charleston peninsula, are out of space, and one can find a resting place there only if the congregation has installed a columbarium to hold the ashes of the deceased.
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Filed under: * Christian Life / Church Life • Parish Ministry • Death / Burial / Funerals • * Culture-Watch • History • Religion & Culture • * South Carolina
But a sneak peek inside the Gothic downtown church suggests a glorious restoration, once the $7 million project is completed this fall.
It has been a long three years for the 4,200 members of the congregation, who have worshipped and wed inside the adjacent Averyt Hall in the Trinity Center for Missions and Ministry during the absence from the cathedral.
The completion of the mammoth project comes at a difficult moment for the congregation. The cathedral’s longtime dean, the Very Rev. Philip C. Linder, was suspended July 14 by Bishop W. Andrew Waldo, the new bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina. The cause of the action has not been publicized.
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Filed under: * South Carolina
Case in point: Just this week a C-17 cargo plane took off from Charleston Air Force Base with nearly 100,000 pounds of ammunition stuffed inside its cavernous belly.
Stored not too far away are tons of bridging materials set to move in the coming weeks. That's on top of the more than 1,700 heavy armored vehicles that have been loaded, chained and flown overseas by Charleston pilots since January.
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Filed under: * Economics, Politics • Defense, National Security, Military • Iraq War • War in Afghanistan • * South Carolina
Or so says the latest BusinessWeek ranking.
The magazine rolled together various government studies that examined the nation's sleeping habits, exercise patterns and overall time spent working. The report declared the Palmetto State the eighth-laziest in the country.
Louisiana ranked as the country's laziest state, but South Carolinians spend more time watching TV than any other state -- averaging three hours and seven minutes per day. The typical South Carolinian also spends eight hours and 42 minutes a day sleeping.
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Filed under: * South Carolina
The money would cover at least 16 new school buildings, two whole school renovations and comprehensive athletic complexes for three areas of the county. The big question now is whether voters will vote in favor of the tax.
If they don't, county residents instead would see their property taxes increase to pay for the rebuilding of five schools with seismic problems -- Buist Academy, Charleston Progressive Academy, James Simons Elementary, Memminger Elementary and Sullivan's Island Elementary -- but none of the district's other building needs would be addressed. The eight-year tax includes those projects as well as a number of others, and property taxes would not be raised.
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Filed under: * Economics, Politics • Economy • Taxes • The Credit Freeze Crisis of Fall 2008/The Recession of 2007-- • Politics in General • City Government • * South Carolina
The gambling industry was taking in a reported $3 billion a year.
The money came disproportionately from the poor: In a 1997 survey of video poker players, 48 percent reported making less than $20,000 per year.
The cost far outweighed the gain....
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch • Gambling • Law & Legal Issues • Poverty • * Economics, Politics • Economy • Politics in General • State Government • * South Carolina
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Episcopal Church (TEC) • * South Carolina
And the proposed sales tax increases don't stop at necessities. The state's Tax Realignment Commission recommends that the state for the first time charge sales taxes on digital purchases from online stores, such as iTunes and Amazon.com, and pay more to buy a car as part of a massive makeover of the way the state collects taxes.
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Filed under: * Economics, Politics • Economy • Taxes • The Credit Freeze Crisis of Fall 2008/The Recession of 2007-- • Politics in General • State Government • * South Carolina
“The events of this past week have brought us to a place where we never expected to be,” the Rev. Charles M. Davis Jr., who was named interim dean, told the packed congregation gathered in Averyt Hall for the 10 a.m. service.
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Episcopal Church (TEC) • TEC Bishops • TEC Conflicts • TEC Parishes • * Christian Life / Church Life • Parish Ministry • Ministry of the Ordained • * South Carolina
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Episcopal Church (TEC) • TEC Parishes • * Christian Life / Church Life • Parish Ministry • Ministry of the Ordained • * South Carolina
I listened intently, especially to his interpretation of the part that says “Anyone who even looks at a woman with lust in his eye has already committed adultery with her in his heart. So if your eye — even if it is your best eye — causes you to lust, gouge it out and throw it away. Better for part of you to be destroyed than for all of you to be cast into hell…”
The bishop in essence said that most men who had ever been to the beach in the summer would probably going around without eyes if the law was strictly obeyed.
He said we shouldn’t give the Pharisees such a hard time because it’s virtually impossible to obey the spirit of the law. He noted this was the gist of what Jesus was trying to say.
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Episcopal Church (TEC) • TEC Bishops • * Christian Life / Church Life • Parish Ministry • Preaching / Homiletics • * South Carolina
Now three state-based banks have failed this year. In April, Beach First of Myrtle Beach became the first South Carolina bank shut down since the 1999 closure of Columbia’s Victory State Bank.
So far this year, 96 banks nationwide have failed — nearly the double the pace from 2009.
Meanwhile, regulators’ list of problem banks keeps rising. In South Carolina, 14 banks — roughly 15 percent of the state’s total — have been ordered by regulators to bolster their balance sheets since 2008, according to records.
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Filed under: * Economics, Politics • Economy • The Banking System/Sector • The Credit Freeze Crisis of Fall 2008/The Recession of 2007-- • The U.S. Government • * South Carolina
What's more, they said, by voting either for or against a policy change, the church makes a complicated subject that requires thoughtful discussion into a black-and-white matter that's got a winning side and a losing side.
The Rev. Spike Coleman, of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church in West Ashley, said many members of his church don't follow General Assembly proceedings, or the debate of gay marriage and ordination, very closely.
"Not that it's not an important issue," he said. "For some people it's very important, I realize that, but for most members they're worried about their jobs and families and children."
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Filed under: * Religion News & Commentary • Other Churches • Presbyterian • Sexuality Debate (Other denominations and faiths) • * South Carolina
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Episcopal Church (TEC) • * Christian Life / Church Life • Parish Ministry • Preaching / Homiletics • * Culture-Watch • Religion & Culture • * International News & Commentary • America/U.S.A. • * South Carolina • * Theology • Ethics / Moral Theology
On July 7, St. John's Chapel on Hanover Street becomes an official "mission" of the Episcopal Church, which by definition will provide ongoing financial support and direction.
But the chapel has its own mission to reach out to the East Side community, assisting girls and women especially. Since before its consecration last October, St. John's has set itself the task of providing a safe haven for learning and worship and empowering its members to transcend the particular hardships of daily life, according to its vicar, the Rev. Dallas H. Wilson Jr.
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Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Episcopal Church (TEC) • * Christian Life / Church Life • Parish Ministry • * South Carolina
Now, thousands of people walk the site every day without even realizing it is a battlefield -- the largest in South Carolina -- or the role it played in the holiday the country celebrates today.
"I'm always amazed when I give tours that people don't realize there was a major battle here in 1780," said Carl Borick, assistant director of the Charleston Museum and author of "A Gallant Defense: The Siege of Charleston, 1780.
"The siege is important. It was the largest battle in South Carolina during the Revolutionary War."
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Filed under: * Culture-Watch • History • * International News & Commentary • America/U.S.A. • * South Carolina
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Episcopal Church (TEC) • TEC Parishes • * By Kendall • * South Carolina
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