Column Index & Archive

	From the Bishop From the Bishop: A Family Reflection on Racism and Reconciliation (9/25/2019) From the Bishop: Christmas 2018 (12/20/2018) Letter to the Episcopal Church from the Presiding Bishop and President of the House of Deputies (12/12/2018) 2018 Annual Council Sermon – Bishop Barker (11/2/2018) From the Bishop: 2018 Annual Council Address (11/2/2018) From the Bishop: Easter 2018 (3/31/2018) From the Bishop: Lent 2018 (2/15/2018) From the Bishop: Ready to March! (1/16/2018) From the Bishop: Christmas 2017 (12/26/2017) From the Bishop: Advent 2017 (12/1/2017) From the Bishop: Annual Council Homily (10/21/2017) From the Bishop: Annual Council Address (10/21/2017) From the Bishop: Pentecost 2017 (6/8/2017) From the Bishop: Easter 2017 (4/16/2017) From the Bishop: Lent 2017 (3/1/2017) From the Bishop: Epiphany 2017 (1/6/2017) From the Bishop: Christmas 2016 (12/23/2016) From the Bishop: The Season of Advent (12/2/2016) Featured Sermon: 26th Sunday after Pentecost – Bishop Barker (11/14/2016) Bishop Barker’s Annual Council Address (10/21/2016) Featured Sermon: Annual Council Eucharist – Bishop Barker (10/21/2016) From the Bishop: Welcoming Neighbors (9/9/2016) From the Bishop: Pentecost 2016 (5/15/2016) From the Bishop: Holy Week and Easter 2016 (3/23/2016) From the Bishop: Lent 2016 (2/5/2016)

	Spreading the Word Eggplant – The Shape of Empathy (3/30/2018) Eggplant – Walking Away with Jesus (2/16/2018) The Day After Another Shooting – The Rev. Benedict Varnum (2/15/2018) Eggplant – Talking About the Good Life (1/26/2018) The Eggplant – Dying to Save What We Love (12/29/2017) The Eggplant – Revising Ragnarok (12/4/2017) Episcopalians Celebrate “Nebraska Liturgy” – January 7th (11/25/2017) The Eggplant – Stuck in the Plotholes (11/3/2017) The Eggplant – Distance does NOT lend enchantment (10/6/2017) The Eggplant – What’s Your Story? (8/18/2017) Regenerating in the Body of Christ – The Eggplant (7/25/2017) Wonder Woman and Redemptive Violence – The Eggplant (6/23/2017) The Divine Economy – The Eggplant (6/7/2017) The Eggplant – The Fast and the Fictive (4/28/2017) The Eggplant: March 23, 2017 – Spoiler Alert (3/24/2017) The Eggplant: Lend Me Your Ears (2/27/2017) Bishop Barker’s Annual Council Address (10/21/2016) Fr. Benedict Varnum: An Exorcism for Our Times (6/20/2016) The Voice of a Christian (11/20/2015) Applications Being Accepted for Project Resource (10/23/2015) New Book by Fr. Jeffrey Nelson: Christ Has no Body Now But Yours (4/6/2015) The Rev. Dr. Daniel Prechtel in the Panhandle: August 22nd & 23rd (7/17/2014) Diocesan Ministry Fair Invitation & Schedule (2/14/2014) Mother Carol Ann: Epiphany Reflections (1/31/2014) Social Media Feature: Advent Photo-A-Day (12/3/2013)

	Youth Events Two Women’s Ministries Scholarship Winners Announced (9/30/2016) Thank you for supporting Camp Canterbury 2016! (7/29/2016) Trinity Cathedral Launches Cantate Choral Academy (6/3/2016) Calling All Prayer Partners: Youth Mission to Dominican Republic June 15-22, 2016 (5/27/2016) Youth DR Mission Needs Your Help (4/22/2016) 2016 Youth DR Mission to Build Relationships through Construction and Music Ministry (3/25/2016) 2016 Youth Mission Team to the Dominican Republic is Forming NOW !!! (1/15/2016) 2016 UTO Young Adult and Seminarian Grant Application Process and Forms (1/8/2016) Nebraska Youth Summit on Climate – January 27 & 28 (12/23/2015) 2015 Youth Mission Dominican Republic Trip & Photos (8/28/2015) Only Three Weeks Left for Camp Canterbury Registration! (6/11/2015) Celebrate Camp Sunday – May 3rd! (4/10/2015) DR Missioners Seek Your Help (3/27/2015) Camp Canterbury: “Why Go To Church Camp?” and Call for Counselors (3/10/2015) Changes and Extended Deadline for Young Adult UTO Grants (2/20/2015) Introducing Camp Canterbury! (2/13/2015) 2015 Youth Mission to the Dominican Republic (12/31/2014) Discussing Tragic Events in a Youth Community (8/19/2014) Thanks from the Youth Mission Team (7/24/2014) Abigail Kutlas Awarded Women’s Ministries Scholarship (7/17/2014) Rosebud Mission Team Update and Photos (6/19/2014) Camp Comeca – Anchored in Christ (5/8/2014) Camp Sunday is This Sunday, May 4th ! (5/2/2014) Camp Sunday is May 4th! (4/4/2014) 2nd Annual Whitney Scholarship Applications (3/13/2014)

	Outreach & Mission InviteWelcomeConnect – Now What? (3/30/2018) Exciting News for DioNEB from Br. James Dowd (2/2/2018) From the Bishop: Annual Council Homily (10/21/2017) Invite * Welcome * Connect (7/28/2017) The Power of Prayer – St. Francis, Scottsbluff ECW (6/6/2017) Greetings from Sandra Squires, United Thank Offering Board President (3/3/2017) Angels Among Us (1/16/2017) Trinity Cathedral Offers Prayer Vigil on Inauguration Day (1/14/2017) Jacob Manyang: Report from South Sudan (12/27/2016) St. Monica’s Needs Our Help (11/26/2016) A Note from Scott Gunn, Executive Director of Forward Movement (11/9/2016) St. Matthew’s, Lincoln Provides Community, Learning, Love, for Yazidis (10/28/2016) Recovery Eucharist – Holy Apostle’s, Mitchell (10/20/2016) UTO Update – Tiny Houses on Standing Rock (10/14/2016) Monk in Residence: Brother James Dowd, OHC, Joins DioNEB Team (7/29/2016) All Things UTO (4/29/2016) What is UTO? (2/26/2016) 2016 Youth Mission Team to the Dominican Republic is Forming NOW !!! (1/15/2016) 2016 UTO Young Adult and Seminarian Grant Application Process and Forms (1/8/2016) 2016 United Thank Offering Grant Applications Now Accepted (1/8/2016) “I Stand by the Door” – Rev. Sam Shoemaker (12/18/2015) Amid Discussions on Refugees, Remember Fr. Kano from Nebraska (12/11/2015) “On the Road Again” with the Trinity Cathedral Choir (12/4/2015) UTO Bulletin Insert: Second Sunday of Advent (12/3/2015) All Call Omaha Kiva Party November 7th (10/30/2015)

	Out & About Hail and Farewell – Fr. Jeffrey Nelson (1/3/2019) Second Annual Summer Sing at Trinity Cathedral – Vivaldi Gloria, July 20th (7/15/2017) The Power of Prayer – St. Francis, Scottsbluff ECW (6/6/2017) Episcopalians Celebrate at Willa Cather Spring Conference (6/5/2017) Welcome Rev. Amanda Gott, Rector at St. Matthew’s, Lincoln! (4/7/2017) First-Plymouth Choir Sings Compline at Trinity Cathedral Feb. 19 (2/10/2017) Can Monasticism Save a Post-Christian World? (2/4/2017) New Feature: The Eggplant -by The Rev. John Adams (1/27/2017) Many Choices for Advent Devotions This Week (12/16/2016) Trinity Cathedral Choir Celebrates Ten Years of Lessons and Carols “On the Road” (12/1/2016) Trinity Cathedral: A Service of Remembrance & Faure Requiem -Nov 1st at 7:30 PM (10/28/2016) St. Matthew’s, Lincoln Provides Community, Learning, Love, for Yazidis (10/28/2016) Recovery Eucharist – Holy Apostle’s, Mitchell (10/20/2016) Meet Heather Bauer, Diocesan Altar Guild Coordinator (9/2/2016) St. Andrew’s ‘By Request Only’ Concert Fundraiser – Sept 16th, 2016 (7/29/2016) Meet our new clergy! (7/22/2016) Trinity Cathedral Presents Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” – July 28th (7/8/2016) Trinity Cathedral Launches Cantate Choral Academy (6/3/2016) Esther de Waal to Lecture at Nashotah House (5/20/2016) Cathedra Performs at Trinity Cathedral May 12 (5/11/2016) St. Mark’s on the Campus Holds First Friday Art Exhibit (5/1/2016) Earth Day Celebrated at St. Andrews, Seward (4/29/2016) Meet Deb Sneller – Church Periodical Club Coordinator (4/22/2016) Combined Choral Evensong Sunday February 21st (2/19/2016) Trinity Cathedral Celebrates Sewanee Connections with Visit from Organist Robert Delcamp (1/20/2016)

	Prayer & Devotion DioNEB 2017 Necrology (11/2/2017) Daily Prayers for Ordinary Time – Nebraska Creation Community (6/15/2017) The Prayer of St. Patrick (3/15/2017) Five Marks of Love – Free Lenten Offering from SSJE (2/20/2017) Prayers for our nation (1/19/2017) Trinity Cathedral Offers Prayer Vigil on Inauguration Day (1/14/2017) DioNEB Men’s Spirituality Retreat February 17th-19th (1/5/2017) Archbishop of Canterbury Offers Free Online Bible Class for Advent (11/18/2016) A Note from Scott Gunn, Executive Director of Forward Movement (11/9/2016) Election Day Prayer Vigil November 8th (10/14/2016) Icon Meditation: Our Lady of Ferguson and All Those Killed by Gun Violence (7/12/2016) Supplemental Prayers of the People: Weeks of June 13th and 20th, 2016 (6/15/2016) House of Bishops Theology Committee Offers Free Online Daily Meditations for Lent (1/27/2016) Give yourself the gift of Christian education for the new year (12/4/2015) BKSM Summer Mini-Classes (4/10/2015) Men’s Ministry Retreat May 15th – 17th (4/3/2015) Lent with the ESC – On Doubt, by Fr. Jason Emerson (2/24/2015) Illumination (12/18/2014) Men’s Retreat May 16-18, 2014: Practical Spirituality (4/10/2014) Centering Prayer Retreat: April 5th (3/6/2014) Women’s Retreat April 25th-26th (2/20/2014) Diocesan Prayer Requests February 14th 2014 (2/14/2014) Restoration Project “20+1+4” Lenten Challenge (2/6/2014) Diocesan Prayer Requests February 6th 2014 (2/6/2014) Diocesan Prayer Requests January 31th 2014 (1/31/2014)

	Companion Dioceses Twic East & Dominican Republic Dominican Republic Mission – Pizza Ranch Fundraiser (4/28/2017) Calling All Prayer Partners: Youth Mission to Dominican Republic June 15-22, 2016 (5/27/2016) Youth DR Mission Needs Your Help (4/22/2016) 2016 Youth DR Mission to Build Relationships through Construction and Music Ministry (3/25/2016) 2015 Youth Mission Dominican Republic Trip & Photos (8/28/2015) Mission Trip to Hato Mayer in the Dominican Republic (7/10/2015) DR Missioners Seek Your Help (3/27/2015) Let’s Build a Home Together!!! (1/9/2015) 2015 Youth Mission to the Dominican Republic (12/31/2014) Colegio Kids: Making a Difference in the Dominican Republic through Education (9/12/2014) Youth Dominican Republic Mission Trip Report (8/28/2014) Jacob’s Report from Africa: Kakuma Refugee Camp (8/14/2014) Jacob’s Report from the field in Africa: Schools (8/10/2014) South Sudanese Episcopal Clergy Conference at All Saints (8/7/2014) New Internal Province in South Sudan (7/24/2014) South Sudan Report from Jacob Manyang (7/3/2014) Companion Diocese Twic East South Sudan Update (7/3/2014) Calling All Prayer Partners: Youth Trip to the Dominican Republic June 23-30 (6/18/2014) Bishop Barker Preaches at D-R Diocesan Convention (3/6/2014) Presiding Bishop Calls for Day of Prayer for South Sudan Sunday Feb 16th (2/14/2014) The Disaster in South Sudan: You can Help! (2/14/2014) Teams forming NOW for Dominican Republic 2014 Mission (1/23/2014) All Saints South Sudan Worship Service (12/19/2013) South Sudan Companion Diocese Mission Update (11/29/2013) The Ninth Missioner-A Thanksgiving Story (11/29/2013)

	Environmental Stewardship Green Sprouts Blog: Wilderness (2/19/2018) The Coming Light: Prayer and Reflection for the Fourth Week of Advent (12/23/2017) Joy in Creation: Prayer and Reflection for the Third Week of Advent (12/19/2017) Prophets and Joy: Prayer and Reflection for the Second Week of Advent (12/15/2017) Hope: Prayer and Reflection for the First Week of Advent (12/3/2017) Daily Prayers for Ordinary Time – Nebraska Creation Community (6/15/2017) Prayer Vigil for the Climate – Saturday April 29th (4/28/2017) Environmental Stewardship – Praying the Earth’s News: March 23, 2017 (3/24/2017) Exploring a Creation Connections Community (12/13/2016) An Invitation to Stand with Standing Rock (11/15/2016) Environmental Stewardship: St. Francis Day – Extending the Circle of Compassion (10/5/2016) Environmental Stewardship: How Are the Scallops? (7/26/2016) Environmental Stewardship: Guided into the Faith – Trinity Sunday (5/23/2016) Environmental Stewardship: Rogation Days – Praying the Bounds of a Warming World 2016 (5/3/2016) Earth Day Celebrated at St. Andrews, Seward (4/29/2016) Environmental Stewardship: Good Friday – Darkness Coming Over the Land (3/26/2016) Environmental Stewardship: Ash Wednesday in the Anthropocene (2/11/2016) Environmental Stewardship: Epiphany – Overwhelmed with Joy (1/7/2016) Environmental Stewardship: Following Jesus No Matter What in the Anthropocene (12/31/2015) Environmental Stewardship: Advent 4 – Magnificat and the Unholy Silence (12/23/2015) Nebraska Youth Summit on Climate – January 27 & 28 (12/23/2015) Environmental Stewardship: Advent 3 – Rejoice! (12/18/2015) Environmental Stewardship: Advent 2 – Repent! (12/6/2015) Environmental Stewardship: Advent Hope 2015 (11/30/2015) Environmental Stewardship: Thanksgiving Weekend and the Paris Talks (11/28/2015)



	Salute! Bishop’s Cross Presentation: The Very Reverend Catherine Scott (10/31/2017) Bishop’s Cross Presentation: Sandra Squires (10/30/2017) Nebraska Hymn Poet Rae E. Whitney Awarded the Bishop’s Cross at Annual Council (10/13/2016) Two Women’s Ministries Scholarship Winners Announced (9/30/2016) 48th Triennial Meeting of the Episcopal Church Women (7/10/2015) Salute to Stephen Kay, Church of Our Savior (12/19/2014) Meet New Diocesan Administrator Lindsey Rowe (5/2/2014) Trinity Cathedral’s Historical Society Honors David Walvoord (3/6/2014) Michael Duffy (Trinity Cathedral) Accepted into The Seven (1/4/2014) Salute! Craig Loya, new Dean at Trinity Cathedral (11/29/2013) 2013 Annual Council Election Results (10/23/2013) Deacon Ellen Day at Trinity Cathedral (8/20/2013)

	Ask a Priest Ask a Priest – What is the “Prosperity Gospel?” (2/14/2017) Ask a Priest: What is a “Blue Christmas” Liturgy? (12/23/2016) Easter: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (5/5/2014) Ask a Priest: Is the Lenten Beer Fast Real or a Myth? (3/6/2014) Ask a Priest: Red or White? (11/30/2013) Ask A Priest (Bishop’s Vestments) (8/20/2013)

	Health and Wellness Continuing Ed Courses: Boundary Training (9/18/2015) Special Showing April 25th: Sober Indian \| Dangerous Indian (4/10/2015) Health & Wellness Corner: Eight Tips to Boost Personal Health (5/22/2014) The Wet Side of the Ocean (5/2/2014) Health & Wellness Corner: Instruments of Healing (3/6/2014) Health & Wellness Corner: Understanding Dementia (11/29/2013) Health & Wellness Corner (Self Esteem) (8/20/2013)


	The Eggplant Eggplant – The Shape of Empathy (3/30/2018) Eggplant – Walking Away with Jesus (2/16/2018) Eggplant – Talking About the Good Life (1/26/2018) The Eggplant – Dying to Save What We Love (12/29/2017) The Eggplant – Revising Ragnarok (12/4/2017)

	Movie & Book Reviews Exclusive to TNE: Book Review of Chuck Peek’s “Where We’ve Managed Somehow To Be” (8/5/2014) Movie Review: The Butler (8/21/2013) Book Review: Rich Church, Poor Church (8/19/2013)

	Our History Church of Our Savior Featured in Feb 8th Living Church (2/6/2015) Stephen Kay Heritage Room Dedicated at Church of Our Savior (10/3/2014) Church of Our Savior North Platte Historical Tour: June 15th (5/22/2014) From Central House to Brownell Hall (Our History) (10/17/2013) Episcopal Women’s Ministry in 19th Century Nebraska (7/23/2013)

	Sermon of the Month Featured Sermon: Christ the King – Rev. Heidi Haverkamp (11/28/2017) Featured Sermon: “Thoughts and Prayers” and the Ten Commandments (10/9/2017) Featured Sermon: St. Mary Magdalene – Rev. Deacon Teresa Houser (7/27/2017) Featured Sermon: Fr. Robert Lewis – Country Music and Hagar (6/28/2017) Featured Sermon: Trinity Sunday – Archdeacon Betsy Blake Bennett (6/12/2017) Featured Sermon: Good Friday – Archdeacon Betsy Blake Bennett (4/15/2017) Featured Sermon: Rev. Charles Peek – Sermon for Recovery Eucharist (2/4/2017) Featured Sermon: “In Christ There Is No East Nor West…” (1/23/2017) Featured Sermon: Fr. Jeffrey Nelson – Christmas Eve (12/22/2016) Featured Sermon: Advent 2A – The voice of one crying out in the wilderness (12/5/2016) Featured Sermon: Christ the King – Dean Craig Loya (11/21/2016) Featured Sermon: 26th Sunday after Pentecost – Bishop Barker (11/14/2016) Take “Me” Out – Reflection by Fr. Benedict Varnum (11/3/2016) Featured Sermon: Annual Council Eucharist – Bishop Barker (10/21/2016) Featured Sermon: The Rev. Canon Elizabeth Easton (6/21/2016) Featured Sermon: Pentecost 4 – Fr. Jason Emerson (6/15/2016) Featured Sermon: Archdeacon Betsy Blake Bennett, Easter 6C (5/13/2016) Featured Sermon – When God Moves Into the Neighborhood (12/27/2015) Featured Sermon – Advent 3: Dean Craig Loya (12/13/2015) From the Bishop: Thanksgiving Sermon (11/25/2015) Featured Sermon: Fr. Jason Emerson – Christ the King (11/24/2015) Bishop Barker’s 2015 Annual Council Eucharist Sermon (10/17/2015) Featured Sermon: Dean Craig Loya – Summer Camp (7/27/2015) Featured Sermon: Archdeacon Betsy Blake Bennett (6/8/2015) Featured Sermon: Bishop Barker – Celebration of New Ministry, Mthr. Tar Drazdowski (4/15/2015)

	Poetry Corner Poetry Corner: Blessing the Dust (2/15/2018) Poetry Corner: To Keep a True Lent – Robert Herrick (3/8/2017) Poetry Corner: from spiralling ecstatically this (1/7/2017) Poetry Corner: You Know I Love You – Thomas Carlisle (11/12/2016) Poetry Corner: Mysteries, Yes – Mary Oliver (7/27/2016) Poetry Corner: Fr. Charles Peek – Springing (6/9/2016) Poetry Corner: The Agony (3/4/2016) Poetry Corner: Longing, Lenten (2/16/2016) Poetry Corner: The Mood of Christmas (12/29/2015) “I Stand by the Door” – Rev. Sam Shoemaker (12/18/2015) Poetry Corner: Adult Advent Announcement (12/7/2015) Poetry Corner: First Coming by Madeline L’Engle (12/2/2015) Poetry Corner: Benedict, Blessing us Just North of Schuyler (10/2/2015) Poetry Corner: God stir the soil (8/14/2015) Poetry Corner: The Summer Day by Mary Oliver (8/5/2015) Poetry Corner: At the Gates of Heaven…by Chuck Peek (6/16/2015) Poetry Corner: Love’s Endeavor, Love’s Expense (4/9/2015) Poetry Corner: New Publication by Fr. Chuck Peek (3/24/2015) Poetry Corner: The Valley of Vision (9/17/2014) A Prayer for the Nation on the Event of Another Shooting (6/12/2014) Poetry: Called To Say Yes (3/24/2014) Prayer for Overcoming Indifference (3/19/2014) Poetry Corner: Epiphany (1/7/2014) Poetry Corner: Touched by an Angel (11/29/2013) Poetry Corner: A Future Not Our Own (11/20/2013)

	In Memoriam In memoriam: Jon W. Nelson (3/19/2017) Remembering September 11, 2001- Fr. Benedict Varnum (9/8/2016) In Memoriam: Rev. Luis Uzeuta, Jr. (1/8/2016) In Memoriam: The Rev. Mary Lou Reynolds (10/30/2015) Diocese of Nebraska 2015 Necrology List (10/30/2015) In Memoriam: Rev. William Joseph Barnds (10/14/2015) In Memoriam: Ed Newbury (8/14/2015) All Saints’ Day Reflection & DioNE Necrology (10/31/2014) In Memoriam: Fr. Skip Miles (10/29/2014)

	Other Links & Articles Out and About: Fr. Randy Goeke’s Variety Store Featured (9/7/2015) Fr. Jason Emerson on HuffPost: Urge Your Sentator to Override Governor’s Veto (5/27/2015) From SSJE: Physicist Bishop & Monk discuss a breakthrough in Time (2/5/2015) John Pavlovitz: Ferguson, Immigration, Gay Rights, And The Destructive Myth Of ‘Them’ (12/1/2014) On-Demand Video: National Church Celebration of 40th Anniversary of Ordination of Women (7/28/2014) North Platte Telegraph: Church of Our Savior Honors First Service (6/14/2014) From SOJO: Overland Park Shootings–Learning to Love With Breaking Hearts (4/16/2014) From SOJO: Marked with Ashes and Bearing the Cross (2/20/2014) From the Huffpost: 7 Ways to be sure you are a Martin Luther King Jr. Kind of Christian (1/20/2014) From the Washington Post: Church Shouldn’t Be this Hard (1/8/2014) sojo.net: There’s A War On Christmas-Just Not The One You Think (12/10/2013) SOJO.net – Advent: What Are We Waiting For? (12/2/2013) The Ninth Missioner-A Thanksgiving Story (11/29/2013) HuffPost: The Fandom of God Is Upon Us and It’s Killing the Church (11/11/2013) The American Church’s Absence of Lament (Sojourners) (10/25/2013) Raising the bar on pub theology (Episcopal Cafe) (10/14/2013) Panera CEO Challenges Us: What Kind of Country Do We Want To Live In? (9/28/2013) Seven Things You Must Do Today (9/26/2013) Atlantic Monthly: Meaning Is More Important than Happiness (8/28/2013) We Give Thanks Today for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (8/28/2013) Family Disaster Preparedness from Episcopal Relief and Development (8/27/2013) The American Church: Searching for a New Imprint (Sojourners) (8/23/2013)

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