HeyJaredDefender’s Gate Diaries
A country draughtsman’s meditations on Church, World, and the spaces in between.
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- Jul 8, 2026
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Ten Alternative Hymn Texts (opens the original)
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Considering "Creation Season" (opens the original)
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Treasures from Old Journals, Part 1: The Viable Parish (opens the original)
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In my volunteer work as Secretary, I have been spending quite a lot of time lately with old Journals of the Diocesan Convention, as part of a project to compile into a single resource all of the Acts of Convention. Thanks to the good work of my friend Michael Krasulski, the Journals for the Diocese of Pennsylvania are now fully available online, and they represent one of the single best resources for tracing the life of the Church in this corner of the Commonwealth, as it was, when it was. I hop
Notes from the Outskirts (opens the original)
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