Tuesday (James Hannington & Companions)

• Usual weekday workday stuff.
• Exchanged emails with the Communicator over a variety of issues.
• Reached out by email to a potential candidate for one of the two parishes currently looking for an interim rector.
• Did a small bit of administrative work pertaining to next week's clergy conference.
• Responded to an email from one of our seminarians.
• Carefully read today's post on the Covenant blog, which is a sobering analysis of recent TEC attendance and membership data.
• Did another small bit of clergy conference-related work.
• Began working on producing a rough draft of a Proper 27 homily (St Matthew's, Bloomington), starting with the developed outline I created week before last.
• Grabbed lunch from Subway, eaten at home.
• Accompanied Brenda on an appointment at a nearby hair salon.
• Returned to the sermon work I had begun in the morning and brought it to completion.
• Took a first homiletical pass at the readings for Advent III (St Luke's, Springfield).
• Walked about 5,000 (getting me to my 10K daily goal). Next week it will be dark at that hour.
• Evening Prayer with Brenda.