Happy Fourth of July
This was taken in the Summer of 2004 in Portland, Oregon. Have a safe and happy celebration of our Independence.
Tags: Fireworks, Fourth of July, and Photoblog
04 July 2006
This was taken in the Summer of 2004 in Portland, Oregon. Have a safe and happy celebration of our Independence.
Tags: Fireworks, Fourth of July, and Photoblog
About Me
- Name: writing_here
- Location: Deep in the Heart of Texas, United States
I'm a passionate lay member of the Anglican Communion in the Province known as The Episcopal Church. I'm active in my parish and I'm a DOK. (Don't know what DOK is? See this post.) I live in Texas, where I've had family since at least the 1850s, but I'm from Oregon.
Previous Posts
- A Photo Collage
- ONE Episcopalian
- Very Funny Video
- Now that's a Senior Prank
- The Cross
- The Blogging Bishop's Thought for the Day
- The Last Word
- English Gothic
- History has been made
- Schadenfreude
Posts that contain Jesus per day for the last 30 days.
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3 Comments:
1. I've always seen Christianity as more of a relationship with God thing than as a religion, but then I grew up Baptist. But I did recently hear that our English word religion comes from some other word that means putting things back together, which I find interesting, but then I've always been interested in language and where words come from and how the meaning of them evolves over time.
2. I'm a lay person - there is (at least one) blogging bishop, he is in the Episcopal Church in Scotland (which is a different part of the Anglican Communion than The Episcopal Church). I quoted him recently (his is the 5th blog under "Blogorama" in the sidebar. I wouldn't want to be a bishop - too many headaches come with wearing the funny pointed hat.
3. Yes, we got bishops in the Episcopal Church. In fact "Episcopal" comes from the Greek word for Bishop - episkopos, which can also be translated as overseer. After the American Revolution, what remained of the Church of England in what had become the United States needed a new name, so we became The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America. Overtime the name condensed down to The Episcopal Church (some parts are outside the US of A and some parts are so "Anglo-Catholic" they make Roman Catholics look like Lutherans). If that's not more than you ever wanted to know - check out Come and Grow.org.
I just wanted to say that I enjoyed the blog and the photos. Thanks for sharing with us!
Rob - thanks for compliment.
Popp - I know what you mean about trying to tell a conversation with God apart from one with some small part of yourself. It's sort of like aquiring an ear for music. The more you sing alto, the more you hear alto notes.
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