George Berkeley (1685-1753) was an Irish philosopher and Church of England clergyman and later a bishop. He claimed that individuals can only directly know sensations and ideas of objects, not abstractions — a view that would influence Hume, Kant, and…
Continue ReadingHoly God, source of all wisdom: We give thanks for your servants George Berkeley and Joseph Butler, who by their life and work strengthened your Church and illumined your world. Help us, following their examples, to place our hearts and…
Continue ReadingEvelyn Underhill (Mrs. Hubert Stuart Moore) was born in 1850 and grew up in London. Her friends included Laurence Housman (poet and brother of the poet A E Housman) and Sarah Bernhardt (actress), and Baron Friedrich von Huegel, a writer…
Continue ReadingO God, Origin, Sustainer, and End of all your creatures; Grant that your Church, taught by your servant Evelyn Underhill, guarded evermore by your power, and guided by your Spirit into the light of truth, may continually offer to you…
Continue ReadingSt. Paul’s Episcopal Church is seeking an assisting musician to work with our Music Director to expand our musical repertoire. We are looking for a keyboardist or guitarist comfortable with accompanying choir and congregational singing, and familiar with contemporary, folk…
Continue ReadingSaint Basil the Great (330 – 379) was bishop of Caesarea and a leading churchman in the 4th century. The Church considers him a saint and one of the “Cappadocian Fathers”, together with Saints Gregory the Theologian (Gregory Nazianzus) and…
Continue ReadingAlmighty God, you have revealed to your Church your eternal Being of glorious majesty and perfect love as one God in Trinity of Persons: Give us grace that, like your bishop Basil of Caesarea, we may continue steadfast in the…
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Continue ReadingKeep, O Lord, your household the Church in your steadfast faith and love, that through your grace we may proclaim your truth with boldness, and minister your justice with compassion; for the sake of our Savior Jesus Christ, who lives…
Continue Reading“Show up, pay attention, tell the truth and leave the results to God.” This was the charge that Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori delivered June 9 to some 200 participants attending the USPG-Anglicans in World Mission conference, noting that the…
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