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“Walking the Walk” Diocesan Youth Retreat, January 2010

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

On January 22 and 23, fifteen youth and eight adults from around New Hampshire gathered at Camp Sentinel, in Center Tuftonboro, NH, for a retreat exploring the theme of “Walking the Walk” – how we live out our faith. It was a terrific group! We had eighteen kids registered, but a few couldn’t come at the last minute. Turns out our gathering was just the right size, and just the right people!

I was part of the planning team for this event last fall, before my maternity leave, so baby Iona and I went along. Here are some photos to tell the story of our 24 hours together. (more…)

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Could this catch on in New Hampshire?

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

Check out these wonderful photos from the New York Times of a Russian Orthodox custom: annual “baptisms” in local ponds and lakes, through cross-shaped holes cut in the ice.

Anyone ready to take a saw out to Kimball Lake?

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Hello!

Friday, January 9th, 2009

– and welcome to my blog! If this world is new to you, a “blog” is sort of like an online journal, a place to share thoughts where anyone with a computer can drop by and tune in. People have blogs about all sorts of things – politics, crafting, parenting, faith, cooking, sports.

Here at “Miranda Writes,” I’ll post reflections on matters of faith, worship, and community. If I find online resources I especially like, I’ll link them here. And I’ll post the comments on the weekly lectionary texts that I write as a resource for the Sunday school teachers, most weeks.

Please use the “Leave a Reply” space anytime to share your own thoughts. I’d love for this to be a space of conversation, not for my voice alone.

The “Blogroll” over to the right is a list of other websites and blogs that I like, for various reasons. Click on a few and see what you find.

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