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President Ferlo on Lenten Discipline ♦ February 12, 2015 ♦ It’s no surprise that we think of Lent as a time to cultivate some silence. Like other Protestants, Episcopalians can be a noisy lot, what with all our preaching, hymn-singing, coffee hours, and all-too-public...
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♦ President Ferlo on the Council of Deans meeting Jan. 11-13, 2015 ♦ Last week I had the privilege of hosting the Council of Deans of our Episcopal seminaries at Bexley House in Columbus. It was a time of renewed friendship and striking cordiality, considering our...
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Having grown up as an Italian-American Roman Catholic in the 1950s, I have spent most of a lifetime recovering from what felt like an overdose of plaster statuary. It seemed that statues of the Virgin Mary were everywhere in my childhood — on my grandmother’s vanity...
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One of the many odd features of this glorious score of Faure’s is the prominence of the viola players. Usually in pieces like this it’s the violins who rule the roost, with the violas meekly supplying the middle voice. But not in Faure’s famous...
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A sermon preached by President Roger Ferlo at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Cleveland on September 28, 2014: In the name of God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. I have a question for you from this morning’s reading: Is the Lord among us or not? Now, that’s a...
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Before driving down here to Berea for the first time Friday night, I spent a few days at a church conference in Cincinnati. Our group paid a visit to the Freedom Center Museum, that remarkable tribute to the Underground Railroad. There’s a great view toward the south...
