<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[memento vivere]]></title><description><![CDATA[memento vivere]]></description><link>https://www.georgerambow.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 07:32:30 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.georgerambow.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[shocks to the system]]></title><description><![CDATA[Periodically I use different forms of the Eucharistic Prayer for All Saints’ principal Sunday service. (Currently, we are using the “Star Trek” prayer [Prayer C], so named because of the words: “the vast expanse of interstellar space . . . and this fragile earth, our island home.”) Hearing old, familiar ideas and themes spoken in different words can be a useful shock to the system, as it is a potential antidote to the natural tendency of frequently repeated ritual to become stale and...]]></description><link>https://www.georgerambow.com/post/shocks-to-the-system</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6a87475329f38dcec802f3</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:07:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/beaebe_28cbe8d6f30d4889acd18c8840972485~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>georgerambow</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[always ready]]></title><description><![CDATA[What would life be like if we were always ready to die? If wisdom is at all to be desired, then regular, if not frequent, consideration of...]]></description><link>https://www.georgerambow.com/post/always-ready</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a5fe08120510c8475e6c701</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:14:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/beaebe_bab5148566a249ce830a06f73384fe9a~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_880,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>georgerambow</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[what is salvation?]]></title><description><![CDATA[What is salvation? One thing it is not is a form of postmortem fire insurance—a get out of jail free card assuring us that because we said a prayer or filled out a card or “gave our lives to Jesus” in some moment of crisis we are hereby and forevermore spared from the fires of hell. Salvation, according to 1 Corinthians 1:18, is a process. As Paul wrote, “the message about the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power . . .]]></description><link>https://www.georgerambow.com/post/what-is-salvation</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a53d30b1f3b88f8a4eca25a</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:47:36 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/beaebe_b4e8fe92cf394d55b476d95518da3dc8~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_960,h_678,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>georgerambow</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[what's your story? (pt. 3)]]></title><description><![CDATA[A number of weeks ago, I described how I went from being an atheist to a mildly fundamentalistic non-denominational evangelical missionary. The question now is, what drew me from conservative non-denominationalism to the Episcopal Church? I should begin by defining my terms. By “fundamentalistic” I mean believing in the supremacy and inerrancy of the Bible. [NB: Not all evangelicals are fundamentalists, and many evangelicals regard “fundamentalist” to be a pejorative term. By no means do I...]]></description><link>https://www.georgerambow.com/post/what-s-your-story-pt-3</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a56ab4e5e603ccfb33004f5</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:24:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/beaebe_9619708bf2bc4aae96fbcb9a667ffdd9~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_960,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>georgerambow</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[what's your story? (pt. 2)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Last week, I shared how around age 13 I became an atheist and that the intellectual justification for my de-conversion was the problem of suffering and evil. In early high school, I endured a traumatic experience, which gave me a deep emotional reason for rejecting God—but I won’t go into that here. As I also shared, music (and especially the pursuit of a successful musical career) was my god. One reason for this (if René Girard’s theory of mimetic desire carries any weight) is that I was...]]></description><link>https://www.georgerambow.com/post/what-s-your-story-pt-2</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3ffd65ad71d3b6876b3ad1</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a48ed4_5269c107b7de4545b85c437fc7fe5bd4~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_781,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>georgerambow</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[what's your story? (pt. 1)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Since the beginning of my rectorship, a number of folks have asked for more details about my conversion to Christianity, so the thought occurred to me: why not put it in writing? The story begins with my de-conversion. I sometimes forget that I was born a Quaker. My earliest memories of church are of gatherings of the Society of Friends in a small house just northwest of downtown Houston, TX. (It’s where I had my first taste of pumpkin pie.) Around my fifth birthday, my parents returned to...]]></description><link>https://www.georgerambow.com/post/what-s-your-story-pt-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3ffa25d3770ea960edfa03</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:32:30 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a48ed4_cac54042640d4a839742bb8ac8c74ea1~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_875,h_594,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>georgerambow</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[memento mori etiam vivere]]></title><description><![CDATA[It is perhaps a miracle that, throughout the nearly twenty-eight years I lived in Texas, I never saw a rattlesnake in the wild. I had to go to upstate New York to experience the thrill. During the two weeks that we were away from the parish, Emily, the girls, and I spent several days on Lake George in the Adirondacks. On our last day there, I decided to go for one more hike and prepared to set out alone on a trail leading to the top of a cliff overlooking the lake. Wisely reminding me that...]]></description><link>https://www.georgerambow.com/post/memento-mori-etiam-vivere</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a3fe37cad71d3b6876affee</guid><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:58:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a48ed4_5eff0159b1e9473693a89ad25618c55c~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>georgerambow</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>