"What is a Priest" - by Scott Gunn at Seven Whole Days...

My colleague in the priestly-profession, Scott Dunn, has a nice piece today 0n his blog "Seven Whole Days" on the topic..."What is a Priest?" .... I am still working it out myself, but he is onto some important observations:

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In terrific memoir Open Secrets, Richard Lischer describes the modern minister. He says, rightly so, that we too often become nothing more than a “quivering mass of availability.” That seems about right. We like to do the easy bits, but we priests don’t always want to do the hard things, and we sometimes don’t want to challenge people. As I’ve said before, we need to do this work. The church is about salvation, not just self-improvement.

The Anglican Centrist ties all this together nicely, in a posting on priestly vocation and leadership.

we who believe we are living inside a reality shaped not by ourselves but by Jesus Christ, believe that we have been given a form that itself is shaped like the One who formed it.

Read all of his good post HERE....

Here are some images of priesthood I borrowed from my other blog, "Images of the Priesthood"...
















VTS Praying for victims of 911



VTS Grads



VTS Activism


VTS 1949, Military Chaplains


VTS 1927


VTS 1911


VTS 1856

The Final Appearance, courtesy of Legos and the Gospel of John

My friend Scott, over at "Seven Whole Days," has linked to a great site that has lego depictions of famous photos.

It reminded me to checkout "The Brick Testament"
which has a plethora of depictions of Bible stories in the form of Legos.

from "The Brick Testament"

The Last Supper

Matthew 26:20
When it was evening, he took his place at the table with the twelve.

The Final Appearance

John 21:9,12

As soon as they came ashore, they saw that there was a charcoal fire with fish cooking on it, and some bread. Jesus said to them, 'Come and have breakfast.'

New Blog: Seven Whole Days

My friend (of a friend) and fellow Anglican Priest Blogger, Scott, has a new blog that he's called "Seven Whole Days" which was taken from a wonderful George Herbert quote: "Seven whole days, not one in seven, I will praise thee." Scott is a voracious reader and is an excellent writer. Not only that, he is a prolific poster of blog entries, and I have enjoyed his insight, wit, and analysis of many of the goings-on in our church these days. Click HERE to check out "Seven Whole Days"...it is well worth a look!

Some of his recent posts are:

"In the case of an emergency notify an Episcopal priest"

"Did Jesus use machines"

and, "Emergent Superheroes"

In addition, he has a picture of an early bishop of Vermont (where I grew up), who later became Presiding Bishop and some unfortunate statements that Bishop Hopkins made in support of slavery - unfortunate, but important to read and consider the ways that the Bible has been misused to justify all kinds of oppression.


Secondly, Scott took a wonderful picture of my fellow VTS graduate, Archbishop Peter Akinola in Dar Es Salaam, who is blocking his face with his prayer book, or Bible. A very cool picture.

"Did You Know" Video on Youtube

Ever feel like things have been changing a lot?
Wondering how come you might feel root-less?
Check out this video and ponder it.



Hat tip goes to Seven Whole Days blog!