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My birthday gift: On the Rails and about the Rails
March 2011 – Rector’s Ruminations As we depart the Sacramento station on the Coast Starlight, we pass a deserted Southern Pacific warehouse and a small wave of bittersweet nostalgia washes over me. Bitter owing to my love of train travel … Continue reading
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Episcopal Schools Form Servant Leaders
By Craig B. Anderson The rhetoric of educational reform is all too familiar – calls for adequate school funding, concern over declining test scores, impending teacher shortages, growing grade inflation, the need for curriculum revision to address poor student performance, … Continue reading
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God and the Scandal of Christianity
Craig Barry Anderson Our meaning of God is never the same as our experience of God, much less God herself/himself. Fundamentalism of any kind – biblical, theological, liturgical, and ecclesiological – makes a finite world equivalent to an infinite God. … Continue reading
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A Silent Apartheid Within – Racism against Native Americans
By Craig Anderson Racism is the greatest challenge facing the church. But we must not be tricked into thinking that the struggle against the pernicious evil of institutional racism is limited to apartheid in South Africa. The greater question before … Continue reading
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Reconciliation is a time to remember, repent, resolve
By the Right Rev. Craig B. Anderson At the recent Governor’s Council for the Year of Reconciliation meeting, the following mission statement was unanimously adopted: “to identify issues, attitudes and historical experiences that have contributed to the need for reconciliation … Continue reading
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Books: Science and Religion – Two Realms and Their Relationships
By Craig Anderson, Ph.D Three recent books add to the growing interest in the relationship between science and religion. Two of these share a common premise: Given science’s task of defining the natural world and religion’s goal of providing a … Continue reading
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The Virtue of Generosity
Albert Camus, the French existentialist, philosopher and novelist, once said that when we in the West forgot the virtue of generosity, we began the practice of charity. The truth of Camus’ insight was revealed to me in a significant way … Continue reading
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5 Best One-liners
Bishop Craig Anderson, the interim rector at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Sun Valley, is a veteran, a former head of St. Paul’s School in New Hampshire, a husband and father and the recipient of numerous honors. He was ordained … Continue reading
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End the Iraqi embargo now
Concord Monitor – Saturday, March 7, 1998 By Bishop Craig Anderson The world teetered for a few days on the brink of war in Iraq but cooler heads prevailed and we find ourselves now hoping we can carry it a … Continue reading
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Rector’s Annual Report for 2010
February 2011 – Rector’s Ruminations My ruminations this month consist of my Rector’s Report to the Annual Meeting, January 23rd 2011: I began my report to you last year by quoting a portion of The Catechism entitled “The Ministry” with … Continue reading
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