Tumblr (3.0; @stfrancis)http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/“How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it.” - G. K....http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/251292708http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/251292708Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:25:00 -0500Chestertonself<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sCVjOtlMx7w&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sCVjOtlMx7w&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>For those who wonder what Evan is up to.</p>http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/247645639http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/247645639Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:29:00 -0500Evan Kristinfamilydutycountry<img src="http://13.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksy4i8nWsp1qz8fgxo1_r2_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>1SG (Retired) Phillip Channing Ellsworth and 2LT Evan Robert Ellsworth</p>http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/240251010http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/240251010Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:08:00 -0500dutyhonorcountryfamily<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/d7oBeQ4Y6xo&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/d7oBeQ4Y6xo&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.starsandstripeshonorflight.org/SSHF/Welcome.html">The Stars and Stripes Honor Flight</a>. Via Reason.TV’s <a target="_blank" href="http://reason.tv/">Dan Hayes</a>.</p>http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/240647680http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/240647680Wed, 11 Nov 2009 06:22:00 -0500dutyhonorcountryOn May 27, 2004 two days before it was dedicated, Victoria and I visited the World War II Memorial....http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/239163225http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/239163225Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:22:00 -0500fightfaithclergy<img src="http://21.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ksyvus44nc1qz8fgxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Saint Francis Episcopal Church Confirmands, November 7, 2009, the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, Washington DC</p>http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/240754657http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/240754657Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:22:00 -0500Saint Francisfaith“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.” - George Orwell, in...http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/240276097http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/240276097Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:22:00 -0500evilpoliticsmediaGod is no captious sophister eager to trip us up whenever we say amiss, but a courteous tutor ready...http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/233290799http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/233290799Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:19:00 -0500GodteachingAnglicantheologyIt was a hot summer day twelve years ago. We were in Central Park at the Conservatory Water. My...http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/229815899http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/229815899Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:03:00 -0500All SaintsGillianChurchOf the prophets Michelangelo painted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, the one easiest to...http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/223133910http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/223133910Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:59:00 -0400JerusalemThe Crosspreachingsermonssufferingart<iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" width="480px" height="270px" src="http://specials.washingtonpost.com/mv/embed/?title=Divine%20Impulses%3A%20Tony%20Blair%20on%20living%20faith%20through%20politics&stillURL=http%3A%2F%2Fmedia3.washingtonpost.com%2Fwp-dyn%2Fcontent%2Fphoto%2F2009%2F10%2F22%2FPH2009102202158.jpg&flvURL=%2Fmedia%2F2009%2F10222009-8v&width=480&height=270&autoStart=false&clickThru=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2009/10/22/VI2009102202151.html"></iframe><br/><br/><p>“One of the important things about faith is to realize that faith doesn’t and neither should it insulate you from the challenges of the world. And after all, for us Christians, I mean, our Lord was crucified. It’s rather worse than getting screamed at in the House of Commons.” — Tony Blair, speaking about being a Christian in public service.</p>http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/220922491http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/220922491Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:46:00 -0400faithtestimonyChristianitypoliticsmodbritWhen King David brought the ark of God up to the shrine he had prepared for it in Jerusalem, we read...http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/213813199http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/213813199Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:17:00 -0400sermonspreachingEliotmusicreligionpoetry<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/219967580/tumblr_krx3mqEsUS1qz8fgx&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p>Boyd Matson interviews Laura Waters Hinson about her documentary film *As We Forgive* on the National Geographic Weekend radio show. <i>Used with permission. </i>Look for a screening at Saint Francis.</p>http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/219967580http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/219967580Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:18:00 -0400moviesAfricaforgiveness<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HdKWbMoZTUA&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HdKWbMoZTUA&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/>http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/228047723http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/228047723Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:36:00 -0400MichiganfootballyoutubeWhen you’re a priest and you say the word ‘stewardship’ people start edging toward...http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/212925822http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/212925822Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:36:00 -0400faithmoneytrainstravelChurch<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6107477&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6107477&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6107477&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>“Many people ask me why on earth should a survivor of the genocide in Rwanda forgive someone who murdered either their mother or husband or brother or sister. When you consider that a million people got destroyed by the cruelest means ever known, hacking people to death with machetes and banging children on the walls. Somebody has to tell them this painful message of forgiveness. If we let them be consumed by that ongoing bitterness and anger, it’s like an acidic content in a metal container. It will eventually eat the container up. When they forgive, they get released. Those perpetrators, after they get forgiven, come to us and say, ‘Can you help us to do something to show our remorse?’ And now they are building houses for their victims.” — Bishop John Rucyahana</p>http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/219941530http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/219941530Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:36:00 -0400moviesAfricaforgivenessAnglicanA woman I know described to me once an experience she had in the process of giving birth to her...http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/206975979http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/206975979Mon, 12 Oct 2009 17:25:00 -0400dreamsJesusstorieslovedeathThe Cross<iframe align="center" src="http://www.flickr.com/slideShow/index.gne?group_id=&user_id=43745783@N07&set_id=72157622571897593&tags=2009HouseTour" frameborder="0" width="400" height="400" scrolling="no"></iframe><br/><br/><p>The 2009 Potomac Country House Tour slideshow</p>http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/228121266http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/228121266Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:36:00 -0400Saint FrancisministryphotographyNo Spring, nor Summer beauty hath such graceAs I have seen in one Autumnal face. — John Donne, The...http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/195909664http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/195909664Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:08:00 -0400Donnetimechange<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300" data="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6966228&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF"><param name="quality" value="best" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /><param name="scale" value="showAll" /><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6966228&server=vimeo.com&fullscreen=1&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF" /><embed src="http://www.vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6966228&server=www.vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>On the birthday of Victoria, the <i>cantus firmus</i> of the Ellsworth family, the fun theory. It’s there in Holy Writ, the most recent public example being the appointed lectionary reading of a couple Sundays ago, the howler from the eleventh chapter of the Book of Numbers of all things. It was all I could do not to fall off my prayer desk.</p> <p><i>The rabble among them had a strong craving; and the Israelites also wept again, and said, “If only we had meat to eat! We remember the fish we used to eat in Egypt for nothing, the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic; but now our strength is dried up, and there is nothing at all but this manna to look at.”</i></p> <p><i>Moses heard the people weeping throughout their families, all at the entrances of their tents. Then the LORD became very angry, and Moses was displeased. So Moses said to the LORD, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why have I not found favor in your sight, that you lay the burden of all this people on me? Did I conceive all this people? Did I give birth to them, that you should say to me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries a sucking child,’ to the land that you promised on oath to their ancestors? Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they come weeping to me and say, ‘Give us meat to eat!’ I am not able to carry all this people alone, for they are too heavy for me. If this is the way you are going to treat me, put me to death at once—if I have found favor in your sight—and do not let me see my misery.”</i></p> <p><i>So the LORD said to Moses, “Gather for me seventy of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the tent of meeting, and have them take their place there with you.”</i></p> <p><i>So Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD; and he gathered seventy elders of the people, and placed them all around the tent. Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy elders; and when the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But they did not do so again.</i></p>http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/208495114http://stfrancis.tumblr.com/post/208495114Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:08:00 -0400musicfunhealthpizzazz