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A Priest in the Family

1/23/2014

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Last month John and I were in Garden City, Long Island, for the ordination of our granddaughter Kerlin to the Episcopal priesthood.  With us were Kerlin's father and brother,who flew from Nashville to Boston so the four of us could take the train down to New York (no passenger trains where they live.) 

"Magnificent" hardly does justice to the splendor of the ceremony at the cathedral. Next day there was a much smaller but equally meaningful service: Kerlin's first Eucharist as priest. Unlike a deacon, her previous status, a priest can consecrate the bread and wine, perform the other sacraments, and pronounce blessing.
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Kerlin outside "Bushwick Abbey," on December 8, her first Sunday as priest. The "Abbey" has no permanent home ("The church is the people, not the building," Kerlin reminded us) and its present venue is a radio station. "We want to serve people who might not enter a traditional church building." 

Here's the weekly transformation of a radio station into a worship space: a table with cloth & candles, a bowl for offerings ("Put money in or take out, at need," Kerlin prompts,) and on the stage a stool with four purple candles -- two lit this first Sunday of Advent. I don't know if you can make out the piano, drums and electric guitars that take the place of the organ in our conventional church back in Massachusetts.
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The chalice and patten handmade by a ceramicist friend of Kerlin's mother, Meg.

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Kerlin at home with her nine-year-old son Adin. The blue hair is just the color of the moment -- last time we were together it was pink. 

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Kerlin's husband, Jordan Richter, "the real hero of the occasion," says Kerlin. Jordan had to leave his sound recording business in Oregon to be with her during her years at General Seminary in Manhattan, and now in Brooklyn, where care of their son is often daddy's job. 

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Four generations: father John, son, country music-writer John Scott Sherrill, grandson Peter, a recent college graduate with a degree in sound engineering, great-grandson Adin.

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Adin reading to Papa John  while his grandfather listens. Kerlin's sermons can be found on RichterFamilyAdventure.com.

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Liz Flint
1/25/2014 12:16:10 am

Thanks, Mom. Pictures do paint a thousand words and help to make it seem like we were there for the occasion. What an accomplishment, for both Kerlin and Jordan!

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Chaplain Mary Murphy, War Widow link
4/13/2014 07:19:47 am

Veterans Village
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Wheat Ridge, Co 80212-7230
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Before we release your GOING THE SECOND MILE; John 14=12 to our students of all disciples; we ask you to consider if you have released the needed Hebrews 6-6 as to the many wrong historical insights in your research and publication. We have a ministry to our suffering Military Veterans in the criminal injustice system. We were seeking to have all of the Calvary Temple members (a) and their late pastor (sic); especially adding to the research from the beginning of one of the largest megachurches both globally and in the US; see their opportunity to bring the needed work of satan and his demons in mostly elderly investors from the time our attorney first released, before the victims of this 23 million axis of evil even knew the foundational beginning of this demonic evil. What a gift for our students to know how you are dealing with this profound study.
Mary Murphy, former Denver V,A and Colorado Dept of Corrections Chaplain at Limon prison.
For Jesus' sake - The War Widows
xc: Daniel Lynch - www.fading religious liberties.org

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Chaplain Mary Murphy link
4/13/2014 08:16:12 am

please respond The War Widows

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Marcos Leal
7/25/2015 01:47:01 pm

Good evening. I'm a brazilian methodist guy (please forgive my shaky english).

I have a Catholic colleague who is investigating the birth of Pentacostalism. He inquired me about Florence Dodge and other precursors of the moviment, but I have no information enough.

Can you tell me about John Sherrill's (and/or Elizabeth) conversion testimony, who influenced them and what church they used to attend?

Regards,
Marcos Leal.

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