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Download the November 28 edition of newSpin below. 

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It includes items on World AIDS Day Service in Allentown... Presiding Bishop's Statement on World AIDS Day... Craft Show in Whitehall... Cathedral’s postcards and TV ads... Diocesan Life.December,,, Thanksgiving at North Parish... Advent Lessons and Carols... Advent Calendar... Organist to perform at St. Stephen’s,,, Rector for Happening #17... Is conversation and common ground possible?... Energy Cost Reduction Workshop... Advent Quiet Day... Mission Trip open to youth and adults from any parish... ADCS: Anglican Dream-Church Syndrome... Parish Newsletters... Spirituality of Parenting... Wilkes freshman arhaeology class digs local history at St. Stephen's... Medbroadcast... Your library card may be a ticket to cyberspace resources.

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Giving Thanks … Being Thankful … Sarah Robinson … World AIDS Day Service in Allentown … Martha Stewart is no Mother Theresa, but what if she were? … Prayer request from Mother Pat MacMillan … Rich to the rescue  … Katharine Jefferts Schori in NYTimes Magazine … Lights, Camera… Faith, in four volumes: A, B, C and the Ten Commandments … Diocesan Life.December … Churches that grow … Advent Lesson and Carols … Sightings … Religious observance may keep older people healthy … On Faith: A Conversation on Religion with Jon Meacham and Sally Quinn … Energy Cost Reduction Workshop … Congregational Resource Guide … Don't be so humble … What Does Someone Believe? … Thanks on the Three’s … A new book by Anne Kitch: Taking the Plunge: Baptism and Parenting … ABC and Pope to meet … Last call for 2006 Health Ministry Funds … Advent Quiet Day … Diocese of Bethlehem podcasts … PB's letter to bishopo of San Joaquin … Parish Newsletters … Speaking of Faith: The Soul in Depression … Living spiritally in an arguing world … Strong grip, staying fit helps men live long  … Groundwork III 

World AIDS Day Service

[A note from Father Pat Malloy on the World AIDS Day Service at Grace, Allentown, on Friday, December 1 at 7:00 pm]

Sisters and Brothers,

Grace Church, because of our relationship with AIDS Outreach, is the permanent home of the Allentown World AIDS Day service. It is a touching event. We celebrate a Word service (scripture, preaching), then read, in a formal and striking way, the names of all who have died in the care of AIDS Outreach.  Then we offer the Sacrament of the Sick to all who wish it.

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Download the November 16 edition of newSpin below.

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Thanks on the Three's

By Bill Lewellis

[A Thanksgiving column, requested by The Mornng Call, for publication on Saturday, November 18, 2006]

Near the southern end of the Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, when New Jersey by way of the Walt Whitman Bridge is my destination, I listen to a Philadelphia radio station at 2, 12, 22, 32, 42 and 52 minutes after the hour. The station promotes this minute as “traffic on the two’s.”

 

It helps me decide whether the Schuylkill Expressway or the Blue Route  and I-95 North might be the better, or at least the less harrowing, waya to my destination.

 

My occasional “traffic on the two’s” practice has suggested another practice I’ve devised to help with another journey.

Diocesan Life.December 2006

I've uploaded the December edition of Diocesan Life below. It probably won't be arriving in hard copy in the mail until the end of November or early December. Each page has been uploaded separately so you can choose to download only the pages that may be of interest to you.

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Download the November 9 edition of newSpin below.

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Don't be so humble

"Christians often misread St. Paul's admonition that nobody should “think more highly of themselves than they ought” as meaning they ought not think highly of themselves. This misreading is odd. Of all the characters in the Christian scriptures, St. Paul most clearly had a high esteem for his own gifts. What he asks of us is realism about ours." [Bishop Paul Marshall]  

Download Bishop Paul's November column for secular newspapers below.

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And an audio version is accessible here.

Taking the Plunge

You’ve chosen the godparents, dressed the baby in yards of white, and headed to church for the christening. Now what? What does the sacrament of baptism mean in your child’s life – and yours? In Taking the Plunge: Baptism and Parenting, a new book by Anne Kitch, canon for Christian formation at the Cathedral Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, parents explore how the baptismal covenant helps to shape the experience of raising children. What are you promising when you baptize your child? Why are “please” and “thank you” theological words, not simply polite things to say? Anne Kitch writes with a light touch and includes plenty of real-life stories. More info below and at Morehouse Publishing

 

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Advent Quiet Day

Waiting on God, Saturday, Dec. 2, 9:00 to 3:00, at Trinity Church, Bethlehem. Led by Gwendolyn-Jane Romeril. Sponsored by Daughters of the King. Download flyer and registration form below.

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