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(All the) Small Things
February 26, 2020 Some small acts of courtesy make me very happy. When traffic halts and patiently waits for a funeral procession to pass by. When traffic pauses to let a pedestrian cross in the crosswalk or a family load children into the...
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Building for Ministry in 2020
February 19, 2020 Parish forum on Sunday, February 9 was a powerful example of excellent lay leadership and much more. Accounting Warden Bob Allen - who is in his eighth year as accounting warden - gave a financial report describing the robust...
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Salt and Light
February 12, 2020 What would you say about a parent that left the gas stove running and matchbooks all around the floor and left their children in the house alone? Some writers think that God did much the same with humanity. Why make such a wo...
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How Do I Know God
February 5, 2020 God inspired me to write this poem in Anne Ritchings and Kay Hankinson's Epiphany Wellspring series on a contemplative approach to reading poetry. The poem I wrote in response to was Mary Oliver's Some Questions You Might Ask...
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Won't you be my neighbor?
February 5, 2020 A Philadelphia attorney told me about his early years as a Public Defender. Thirty years ago, this young African American lawyer would travel a circuit with a judge moving from a courtroom in town, to a courtroom in North Phil...
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Celebrating the Fruits of Generosity
January 29, 2020
The vestry passed our 2020 budget on Tuesday and we have much cause for thanksgiving to God and gratitude to our generous members. Here are some highlights: For the 9th year in a row we passed a balanced budget. We lowere...
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Lenten Retreat at Holy Cross Monastery
"Let the silence teach you"
Friday, March 13, 2020 through Sunday, March 15, 2020
The retreat is currently full. Please contact the Rev. Jarrett Kerbel to be added the wait list.
Our annual retreat to Holy Cross Monastery in Wes...
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The Power of a Single Voice
January 15, 2020 One student can change a classroom. Starting on January 2, I devoted five days a week to teaching a class at Princeton Theological Seminary. My co-teacher and I had 13 students who participated, took the initiative, and create...
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A Christmas message from London
January 8, 2020 Sometimes the best I can offer my beloved community comes from someone wiser than me. The Rev. Dr. Sam Wells, Vicar of the Church of St. Martin in the Fields, London, wrote the following Christmas message to his parish. He puts...
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The Week of Firsts
December 19, 2019 Since last Friday’s ordination to the priesthood, it has been a week of startling firsts for me. First blessing, first absolving, first bread-breaking. There was my first Sunday as a priest, followed unbelievably by a first...
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The First Word, the Everyday Word, the Final Word
December 19, 2019 I hope you will all take a minute to read the prologue to the Gospel of John (1:1-14) as we approach Christmas Day. These beautiful verses probably came from an early hymn of the church. I find them to be reassuring, comforti...
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Celebrating our Newest Bridge-Builders
December 12, 2019
This is an especially joyful week for St. Martin’s community. On Friday, we will host the ordination of the Revs. Barbara Ballenger and Laura Palmer to the priesthood. I want to encourage all of our members to attend to s...
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"Insider-ism" Sermon from December 8, 2019
"Paul writes a verse that I think is a good one to memorize, "Welcome each other as you were welcomed by Christ."
Honey Bucket
December 5, 2019 When my parents said to me, “Grab your honey bucket, Jarrett,” what they meant was, “Go shovel manure!” And so I did. With a shovel in one hand and a five gallon bucket in the other I would limp around the meadow shove...
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It's GivingTuesday!
This GivingTuesday, Support Beyond Borders in Haiti
Today is GivingTuesday and we invite you to give to Beyond Borders in Haiti for their work empowering women, ending violence against women and girls, and ending child slavery.
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Interim Music Director Announced
December 2, 2019 We will welcome Lyn Loewi on Sunday, January 19 Interim Music Director, Lyn Loewi is “thrilled to be joining the work and mission at St. Martin’s. While visiting with the Reverend Jarrett Kerbel last month, I was struck b...
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Living with Complexity
November 27, 2019
One sign of maturity is the ability to hold complex thoughts and feelings in tension with each other. As we grow in grace and compassion we are able to hear and hold many perspectives at once and we relinquish the impatient...
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People Who Pray
My morning ritual includes a quick stop at the Wyndmoor 7/11 before worship at St. Martin’s. A creature of habit, I start each day with a small coffee and an old-fashioned donut. The clerks know me by name and what I do for a living, so they ca...
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I See an Eternal Life in Your Future
The Rev. Barbara Ballenger speaks of the power of imagination, especially God's imagination, and the resulting radical hope found in God's vision for the kingdom. Listen to her sermon for the 23rd Sunday after Pentecost, "I See an Eternal Life in...
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Ordination to the Priesthood of Barbara Ballenger and Laura Palmer
God willing and the people consenting
The Rt. Rev. Daniel G. P. Gutiérrez XVI Bishop of The Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania will ordain
Barbara Ellen Ballenger
and
Laura Eileen Palmer
to the Sacred Order of Priests in Chr...
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