st. michael’s blog

uc workers strike...

2008-07-17T00:13:52Z

Address to UC Regents 7.15.2008 My name is Nicole Janelle. I’m a member of Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice as well as the Episcopal Chaplain @ UCSB and priest of St. Michael’s University Church in Isla Vista. This morning, to help ori...

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fire prayer...

2008-07-04T00:22:06Z

A Prayer for our Community in the Midst of the Gap Fire Gracious and holy God, Creator of life -- earth, wind and fire. May our prayers, entwined with the flames that ravage our mountainside, be set forth in your sight as incense, the lifting up...

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an easter sermon...

2008-03-24T05:26:36Z

A few months ago, I noticed a big, colorful foam board sign in the Little House with the words “Miracles are coming.” It was sitting on the mantel of the fireplace. I figured that someone from the AA or OA groups that use our space might have acci...

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a week in the life of the chaplain & vicar of isla vista...

2008-03-16T06:01:15Z

“What DO priests do during the week?” It’s a question frequently posed to priests. I suppose that even priests ask it of their colleagues – at least I do. “What do you do in that church of yours during the week?” A priest’s ministry context varies...

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restoring life...

2008-03-11T06:59:11Z

Some of you may have discovered a new television show this season called Pushing Daisies. The tone of Pushing Daisies, in my mind, is a rip off of the French movie Amélie (one of my all time favorite films). The premise of the movie, however, is m...

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a sermon for epiphany II...

2008-01-22T05:18:37Z

May the words of my mouth, and the meditations of our hearts, remain in your heart, O God, our strength, our courage, our freedom. Amen. Perhaps it’s not the most auspicious way to begin my preaching ministry, but I must start with a confession: ...

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mlk...

2008-01-21T06:01:44Z

I consider myself a “child of the sixties”, by which I mean not that I was born in the 1960s, but that they were my formative years. In 1969 I was 25 years old. During the preceding decade I arrived at some clarity, at least in broad terms, about ...

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an advent & (pre) christmas meditation…

2007-12-23T22:35:30Z

Throughout Advent we meet various characters who take huge risks in saying “Yes” to God. I’m thinking here of John the Baptist, Juan Diego & Guadalupe (whose feast we celebrate on Dec. 12), Mary (last week we read the Song of Mary – the Magnifica...

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interruptions by god...

2007-11-12T08:41:48Z

A few years ago, while I was in New York attending a meeting, I had the pleasure of attending a church service in which Tracey Lind, Dean of the Cathedral in Cleveland, preached. Tracey has recently published a book – fancy and beautiful book call...

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ruth & naomi

2007-11-12T08:31:33Z

Several years ago, my friend Ranjit Mathews spoke at the Presiding Bishop’s Forum on Global Reconciliation, held during the Episcopal Church’s General Convention in Minneapolis. Part of Ranjit’s talk included a personal conversion or transformatio...

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