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Voluntarily Decentralized

(Continuing the description of this virtual parish…) I am not the parish; it would function just fine without me. A two-edged sword in use here is that our parish is both voluntary and decentralized. I assert no authority at all, … Continue reading

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All of the Good Names Are Already Taken

(I’m preparing a document to help explain the peculiarities of this ministry. What follows is a first draft, but there is more to come.) We are a virtual parish with no physical organizational manifestation. Strictly speaking, we do not claim … Continue reading

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Vehicle Funding 01

Ref: Hunting for a Vehicle — More than one person asked me to keep this up to date. Today we received a $50 money order for our vehicle search from Milton Buss. I’ll play the game and post updates as … Continue reading

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Party Like Heaven Came Down

The Holy Spirit is my publicity agent. My message here has little appeal to mainstream Christian believers as a whole. They are not my target audience. It’s not that nothing I write has anything to teach them. On the contrary; … Continue reading

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Hunting for a Vehicle (Updated)

I noted previously a prayer request for another vehicle. One of our regular readers asked for a better accounting of how we are doing this. It seems to me I have no reason to keep this so very private if … Continue reading

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Mission Support Stuff

First, I’ve got a prayer request. After struggling with repairing our Jeep, we still have some trouble. It randomly stalls out and won’t restart until some cooling off. I’ve checked with experienced Jeep gurus and it comes down to stuff … Continue reading

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The Pastor and His Religion

What have we here? The whole idea behind using parables is that there is some overlap between the concrete, literal meaning of the words and something beyond words indicated by the terminology. This blog is the ephemeral touch point for … Continue reading

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Virtual Spiritual Family

Welcome to our virtual parish. I’m a virtual pastor. Technically I’m an elder, the management half of the church leadership team. However, I also serve in the priesthood role simply because no one else is doing it and I have … Continue reading

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This Little Light of Mine

Maybe you’ve heard the children’s ditty: This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine! Let’s face it, the religion I teach here is frankly weird, if you come at it from any part of mainstream Christianity. Superficially we … Continue reading

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Another Day in Paradise

First, you need to understand I’m not all upset. I’m a tad disappointed, but it’s part of the background noise of life in this Fallen Realm. Sometime Friday while on my great adventure cycling to the County Courthouse, I must … Continue reading

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