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There was great spiritual community at this morning's LOL. Please join us and explore how God is working through scripture in your life! Continue

Well, let's clarify a few things first. A parish associate is not the pastor, or assistant pastor, or co-pastor.
A parish associate is clergy that has a primary ministry outside the church. We know that God works everywhere, inside and outside the church.
Because that ministry is outside the church that clergy does well to have a formal relationship with a church to promote their own spiritual growth as well of the spiritual growth in the church. It is a relationship and not a call. (ie it is no… Continue

Describing our fears, Wendell Berry writes:

I go among trees and sit still.

all my stirring becomes quiet

around me like circles on water.

My tasks lie in their places

where I left them, asleep like cattle.

Then what is afraid of me comes

and lives a whil

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