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Latest Issue: May 4, 2008: A Meditation for Ascensiontide
 
April 20, 2008: Dos Despedidas
April 6, 2008: "Pacific Postulations"
March 23, 2008: The Rector's Easter Message
March 9, 2008: "Exploring Episcopal Faith and Practice"
February 24, 2008: "Passing Through Samaria"
February 10, 2008: "Unity, not uniformity"
January 27, 2008:"...The burden of them is intolerable..."
January 13, 2008: "Lift up a living nation"
 
December 23, 2007: The Rector's Christmas Message - "Et Verbum caro factum est"
December 9, 2007:
"Living Stones"
November 25, 2007: When Was The First Thanksgiving?
November 11, 2007: The New Confederacy
October 28, 2007: A Meditation for All Saints/All Souls
October 14, 2007: "Rabble-Rouser for Peace"
September 30, 2007: Conventional Wisdom
September 16, 2007: "Tokens of Friendship and Goodwill"
September 2, 2007: "Back in the Saddle"
August 12, 2007: World Beats a Path to Calvary's Doorstep
July 15, 2007: The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh: Quo Vadis?
June 24, 2007: The Parable of the Trees, or a Meditation on Litigation
June 10, 2007: "God is working his purpose out"
May 27, 2007: Episcopal and Anglican News Bites of Note
May 13, 2007: "The Rector's Charge"
April 29, 2007: "Non Angli, sed angeli"
April 15, 2007: The Presiding Bishop and President of the House of Bishops Respond To Calvary
April 1, 2007: The Rector's Easter Message
March 18, 2007: "TEAM-Work"
March 4, 2007: Some Reflections on the Primates' Communique
February 18, 2007: Lenten Quarantine: A Meditation
February 11, 2007: Special Edition: A Pastoral Letter from Bishop Robert Duncan/Full Text of the Request to the Global South Primates
February 4, 2007: "What is the mission of the Church?"
January 21, 2007: "A Certain Trumpet"
January 7, 2007: Calvary's Recent Petition
 

Back Issues:
2006
January 8, 2006:
Who's in and who's out?
April 30, 2006:
Becoming Doers of the Word
September 17, 2006: "Crossing Boundaries"
January 22, 2006:
"The Church in the
Lion's Den"
May 14, 2006:
"Stirring up"
October 1, 2006:
"A High Day in Zion"
February 5, 2006:
A Report from the Diocesan Clergy Day, January 2006
May 28, 2006:
"The Rector's Charge"
October 15, 2006:
The MDGs: or
"Yes, Something good did come out of Columbus"
February 19, 2006:
Humus
June 11, 2006:
Conventional Wisdom:
On to Columbus
October 29, 2006:
"Ordain Women or
Stop Baptizing Them!"
March 5, 2006:
Your Vestry at Work
June 25, 2006:
Conventional Wisdom:
"It's a Girl!"
November 12, 1006:
"Ironies, Ideologies, and Inconsistencies: Reflections
on the 141st Convention of the Diocese of Pittsburgh
March 19, 2006:
"Intellectual progress and
the reception of new truth"
July 16, 2006:
Introducing the
Reverend Nathan A. Rugh
November 26, 2006:
The Rebuilding of St. Chad's: A Parable for our Times
April 2, 2006:
"Do you want to be healed?"
August 13, 2006:
"Christ the Head and Cornerstone"
December 10, 2006:
Advent: First, you would have to clean.
April 16, 2006:
An Easter Meditation
September 3, 2006:
"Don't Call Them Conservatives"
December 24, 2006:
A Christmas Prayer
2005
January 9, 2005:
Tsunamis, Our Lives and
the Unity of the Church
May 1, 2005:
A Friend's Lament

September 18, 2005: Meditation on
Matthew 20:1-16
January 23, 2005:
Radical Hospitality
May 15, 2005:
Veni, Sancte Spiritus
(A Meditation for Pentecost)
October 2, 2005:
Calvary's Vestry and
the Gospel Imperative
February 6, 2005:
Lenten Quarantine
May 29, 2005:
The Rector's Charge
October 16, 2005: Resolution!
February 20, 2005:
"Ubi episcopus, ibi ecclesia"
June 12, 2005: A Sermon for the Unity of the Church
October 30, 2005:
Party Hats
March 6, 2005:
Primatial Pronouncements
June 26, 2005:
The Art of Estivation
November 13, 2005: Conventional Wisdom
March 20, 2005:
The Rector's Easter Message
July 10, 2005:
Sheriffs of Nottingham
November 27, 2005:
Mene, mene, tekel upharsin
April 3, 2005:
A Message from
The Rev. Robert Stevens, Jr.
August 7, 2005:
Six Degrees of Separation
December 11, 2005:
The Rector's Christmas Message
April 17, 2005:
Matters of Life and Death
September 4, 2005:
The Household of God
December 25, 2005:
Putting God First
2004
January 11, 2004:
The Warden's Word
May 2, 2004:
CL
September 19, 2004:
God and Mammon
January 25, 2004:
The Journey to Adulthood... Are we there yet?
May 16, 2004:
"An Inquiring and
Discerning Heart"
October 3, 2004:
"Forward! be our watchword"
February 8, 2004: The Rector's Ruminations from Grahamstown, South Africa
May 30, 2004:
Sheep, Goats, and Pentecost
October 17, 2004: Post-Eamesian Anglicanism
February 22, 2004:
Capital Campaign Tops
$4.5 Million Goal
June 13, 2004:
From the Back of the Bus
October 31, 2004: Conventional Wisdom
March 7, 2004: The Rector's Ruminations from Cape Town, South Africa
June 27, 2004:
Avodah
November 14, 2004:
"Alea Jacta Est"
March 21, 2004:
It's About Time
July 11, 2004:
A Spiritual Power House
November 28, 2004:
Armor of Light
April 4, 2004:
Alleluia, Christ Is Risen!
August 8, 2004:
Email from God?
December 12, 2004:
Angeli Domini
April 18, 2004:
Re-Entry
September 5, 2005:
South Africa Revisited
December 26, 2004:
The Genius of Janus
2003
January 12, 2003:
Every Member
Canvass Update
May 4, 2003: House of Bishops Recommends Road Crossing Moratorium for All Chickens
September 28, 2003:
"A Shelter from the
Stormy Blast"
January 26, 2003:
Love and Power
May 18, 2003:
"A High Day In Zion"
October 12, 2003: Churchspeak
February 9, 2003:
Canvass and
Budget Update
June 1, 2003:
Calvary at the
Cutting Edge
October 26, 2003:
"From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required"
February 19-22, 2003: Welcome! Bienvenidos! Bienvenue! [A special edition produced for the 18th Annual Conference of The Consortium of Endowed Episcopal Parishes]
June 15, 2003:
"As if they have
always been here"

November 9, 2003:
"Unus Christianus
nullus Christianus"
February 23, 2003:
Lent: "All About Me?"
June 29, 2003:
Index Rectoris Librorum
(Non Prohibitorum) Aestatis
November 23, 2003:
Christus Rex
March 9, 2003: "Whose service is perfect freedom"
July 20, 2003:
Conventional Wisdom
December 7, 2003
"Survey Says..."
March 23, 2003:
A Capital Idea
August 17, 2003:
A Transfigured Church
December 21, 2003:
House of Bread
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The Rector's Christmas Meditation
April 6, 2003:
In Illa Quae Ultra Sunt
September 1, 2003:
Summer Recap
 
April 20, 2003:
The Tonic of Easter
September 14, 2003:
"By schisms rent asunder,
by heresies distressed"
 

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