Happy Cob Tuesday. Parson’s Blend in my Shire churchwarden.
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I’ve come to realize I’m just not really an Apple customer, even though I do appreciate the overall hardware design, reliability of the software, and security focus. Nevertheless, there are still plenty of small annoyances, for instance the terrible mail app (edit: that’s probably not fair–it just doesn’t work me as a very heavy email user with multiple accounts, need to deal with lots of attachments, etc), a frustrating keyboard, and a lack of value-focused hardware (and some software– looking at you, iCloud) which is important to me.
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Preaching Against Racism Is Not a Distraction from the Gospel
“All of us are called to embody the love of Christ, which is not bound by race, gender, or class. What I want, then, is to see the church become the family that Paul describes when he says that we should “carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ” (Gal. 6:2). The burden of deconstructing racism and white supremacy should not be the sole province of black and brown Christians. It should belong to the whole family of God, which is comprised of people who believe the same Scriptures, confess the same creeds, and share in the common bread and the common cup.”
Preaching Against Racism Is Not a Distraction from the Gospel – CT Pastors – Christianity Today
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Today I got the August lectionary up at Anglican Daily Office. Took a little more work than I anticpated as I had test a few different formats/layouts to see what would work best on different size screens without complicating things. In the end I think I found something that works.
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I made something today! Check it out: anglicandailyoffice.online You’ll find the texts for Morning and Evening Prayer from the 2019 Book of Common Prayer in an easy-to-scroll format for phones and tablets. I plan to add supplemental material, the lectionary, and additional offices as time allows.
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There is no one more beautiful, more loving, more full of grace, more merciful, more truthful, more wise and just than Jesus, and it is so freeing to know what God is like–no longer shrouded in mystery, but revealed concretely and completely in Jesus. This challenges and changes me and—when I am in a place of contemplating it–energizes me for me ministry like nothing else.
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I have had a great system for backing up photos for years:
- Google Photos app automatically backs up my photos to Google Photos cloud
- Google Photos cloud syncs with Google Drive
- Google Drive syncs with laptop
So I have copies on my phone, the cloud, and laptop.
Now that Google has de-coupled Google Photos from Google Drive, that flow has been seriously broken. I’ll be switching to Microsoft OneDrive, which is simpler, more integrated into my OS, and and works as expected.
