{"id":3600,"date":"2022-11-03T13:05:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/?p=3600"},"modified":"2022-11-03T13:05:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T18:05:05","slug":"september-6th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stalbansbolivar.org\/?p=3600","title":{"rendered":"September 6th"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular\"><table><tbody><tr><td><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"257\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/cfd132e6001\/66ab1155-1953-4ac1-aee1-427d96a77645.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br><br><strong>St Alban&#8217;s Episcopal Church<\/strong><br><strong>Bolivar, Missouri<\/strong><br><br><strong>Tuesday, September 6, 2022<\/strong><br><br><strong>An anniversary the plan for Friday&#8217;s event<\/strong><br><br><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/cfd132e6001\/ea4d7bd2-416e-4562-af8a-1c6a8a8c0205.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br><br><strong>This is the format for Friday&#8217;s event<\/strong><br>An introduction to the theme, hermeneutical considerations: i.e. how we read scripture in context so that what we read reflects what earlier listeners would have heard. How is scripture related to experience, reason and tradition &#8211; to today&#8217;s news?<br>Then a presentation: gender in God, roles of women in scripture &#8211; not what you might expect,complementarianism vs egalitarianism &#8211; and a third way that demonstrates a reality beyond either way of understanding &#8211; and that more closely reflects the actual biblical stories &#8211; and perhaps our own.<br>We will then have dinner (soup and bread) and everyone can continue to discuss and engage with each other.\u00a0<br>There is, of course, no cost.\u00a0<br>IF anyone asks you about what we are doing, or why, especially after this announcement appears in the Wednesday paper, share this &#8211; or have them call the church and I will return their call &#8211; or they can text or email me.<br><br>\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/cfd132e6001\/3ba43261-4b23-4c41-a776-dd89a6e79761.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br><br>Anniversary<br>Today is the 19th anniversary of my priestly ordination. Except for brief weekends as supply for another congregation, I have been at St Albans for the entire time. That is some evidence that I understand women&#8217;s role in the church and in society\u00a0 in that third way.\u00a0\u00a0A lot has changed over these years, both within the congregation and within my own family. .And a whole lot more has changed in the world and in the United States and within the church &#8211; broadly understood &#8211; as well as within the Episcopal Church. One might say that neither St Albans nor I are the same as when I first began ministry here. And yet &#8211; and yet &#8211; we are.<br>We know something about the power of a past event, even all the small weekly and daily events of our lives when they are celebrated in the present. That&#8217;s what we do every Sunday when we remember the power of the death of Jesus until he comes again &#8211; in bread and wine.\u00a0See Lindsay and RB having their hands washed with me before the Eucharistic prayer. They are the church now. The ministers now. The future already present. <br><br>                                                                 <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"162\" src=\"https:\/\/files.constantcontact.com\/cfd132e6001\/748d3555-5263-4dd1-a91a-9ec321139d44.jpg\" alt=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/imgssl.constantcontact.com\/letters\/images\/1101116784221\/S.gif\" alt=\"\"><br><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St Alban&#8217;s Episcopal ChurchBolivar, Missouri Tuesday, September 6, 2022 An anniversary the plan for Friday&#8217;s event This is the format for Friday&#8217;s eventAn introduction to the theme, hermeneutical considerations: i.e. how we read scripture in context so that what we read reflects what earlier listeners would have heard. 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