My parents picked The Episcopal Church for their family long before I chose to stay, and I’ve often thought that TEC ‘stuck’ better in my case than they might have wished. By the time I was the one choosing a lot more was involved than easy Sunday School registration. The first time I chose TEC [...]
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Millennials: Starting Young
Posted by Robyn on May 22, 2012
http://theologybird.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/millennials-starting-young/
Millennials in the Church: Before you hide the China and Change the Music
I have a confession: I’m under thirty. Which is wonderful but I’m also an Episcopal priest. So suddenly no-one* seems to know what to do with me. I should celebrate my youth; I should talk up my experience (and at 14 years of leadership in this here Church, I’ve got some). I should learn more; [...]
Posted by Robyn on May 18, 2012
http://theologybird.wordpress.com/2012/05/18/millennials-in-the-church-before-you-hide-the-china-and-change-the-music/
What do we do now?
The Episcopal Church is still getting ready for our triennial General Convention. For those keeping track, the budget is not much clearer than it used to be. I had originally planned to continue on and address problems one and two(remember that I started with problem three?). Then my friend and colleague The Rev Megan Castellan [...]
Posted by Robyn on May 14, 2012
http://theologybird.wordpress.com/2012/05/14/what-do-we-do-now/
(Happy Birthday)x
I’m not a big birthday person. It’s not an age thing–one of the perks of being an Episcopal Priest is that I get to be considered “young” until I”m 45 (currently, I’m waiting for them to raise it). That gives me another 16 years of young. For years I would be reminded that it was [...]
Posted by Robyn on May 4, 2012
http://theologybird.wordpress.com/2012/05/04/happy-birthdayx/
What I Wish #ExCoun Said
If you are an Episcopalian and follow Churchwide news, then you have heard that the budget (link) has a few problems–program areas getting slashed, numbers not adding up, canonical mandates not being followed. These have been well discussed at length by others (quotes and more links here, here, here, and here) , and then there’s [...]
Posted by Robyn on April 21, 2012
http://theologybird.wordpress.com/2012/04/21/what-i-wish-excoun-said/
Understanding Incarnation
I was as unprepared as any of us ever are; I was as prepared as all of us are. A seminarian doing CPE, serving the sick, the dying, the struggling. In CPE, sometimes you stumble across people who needs you and sometimes someone (usually a nurse) will page you for a patient. I don’t remember [...]
Posted by Robyn on April 16, 2012
http://theologybird.wordpress.com/2012/04/16/understanding-incarnation/
Holy Week and Memories
Holy Week is hard. That may seem an overly simple statement for a priest to make. After all, Easter, Resurrection is at the center of our faith. And this week leading up to it is full: full of weighty symbols, full of meaning, full of Church, full of work. More sermons to write, more liturgies to plan, [...]
Posted by Robyn on April 3, 2012
http://theologybird.wordpress.com/2012/04/03/holy-week-memories/
The First Yes
She said yes. Well, technically, I had asked-slashed-offered to help lead the next time this event was put on and she said, “I think you could be very good at that.” To my 15 year old self, it was a yes of magnitude. When I think back to me at this time I want to [...]
Posted by Robyn on March 21, 2012
http://theologybird.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/the-first-yes/
General Convention, The National Budget, and Twitter
First, a couple of disclaimers. (1) I’ve been trying to write various posts on aspects of these topics for a couple of weeks now and have nothing coherent–yet. (2) I love Twitter. (3) I get tired of defending the ability to have a conversation on Twitter. So when I realized that I had a conversation [...]
Posted by Robyn on March 7, 2012
http://theologybird.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/general-convention-the-national-budget-and-twitter/
Priestly Time Juggling
I tell people that my life is a juggling act where the goal is not to drop the same ball every week. If you’ve ever seen me (attempt to) juggle, you’d have an appreciation for just how appropriate this image is. Time management is challenging. For all of us. A Google search for “time management” [...]
Posted by Robyn on February 13, 2012
http://theologybird.wordpress.com/2012/02/13/priestly-time-juggling/
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