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S IS being reported all over the blogosphere and even on NPR yesterday AM, the Episcopal Church, USA, voted to remove any hindrances for ordination to all her members – including gay or lesbian persons, and those living in committed partnerships.
What is being missed, however, is the ditching of a lot of her members.
As Susan [...]

ALKING TO Work this AM, I had a bit of a revelation: I’m big on St Paul’s bit about not causing the weaker brethren to stumble. In fact, I think that Gene Robinson should have graciously stood aside rather than cause the current wars in the Anglican Communion.
I’m also convinced that “weaker brethren” [...]

BOUT The time I was 17, I took a ride with my Mom and a Rabbi. For work, Mom was driving the conserva/dox Rabbi to Newark Airport. Mom was a paralegal and, although I’m not sure, I imagine the Rabbi was a client or witness for a client of the law office [...]

CCORDING TO Bishop Alan, it seems to run across the Tiber. Check out his One (Traditionalist) Road to Ruin. I noted in my comment my experience in Orthodoxy as a convert. Of course, we here in the former colonies also have our “Neo-Cath” problems. American Evangelicals in the Romam denomination wax fundamentalist [...]

URING A Telephone call this evening, a pattern became quite clear. Quite a few members of ECUSA’s hierarchy are announcing retirement. This goes further than the ministry of Episcope. One American-paid missionary (who is only a few years older than me) has also announced his retirement. I’m sure there are others [...]

HERE IS ONLY One sin left, and a new Anglican denomination knows that sin is Teh Gay. Sure, Terry Mattingly wants you to imagine it’s about the tmatt trio (aka the Red Herring) and about Biblical Authority. He wrote a very predictable article on GetReligion. It’s a blog I no longer frequent, [...]

O READ Amy Welborn’s post, The right kind of Catholic. It’s frustrating for this Anglican because my tradition is also Torn Apart by the forces she cites. We’re hung up on the same sort of things exactly: from the insides, neither side (there are many more than two sides here) wants to sit [...]

IPPING Coffee in the bookstore after Mass on Sunday, someone asked me what I thought of the kerfuffle in Pittsburgh. (They’ve just lost their bishop because of Thought Crime.) I said, “See how they love each other!” And I got a good laugh.
I’d love to sit down with +Pittsburgh and ++KJC and [...]

UTH ASKS “Is Wales ready for a gay bishop?” She also reposts the entirety of her 2003 Interview with Jeffrey John. Is Dr John up for the Bishop of Bangor? And WHY are the American Conservatives in a snit?
He is emphatic that issues of sexuality should not become a main plank of his [...]

EFORE He preached this AM, Bishop Gene Robinson sat down with the Provost of the Glasgow Cathedral and discussed – among other things, I’m sure – blogging.
+Gene is blogging here.
Provost Kelvin is blogging here.
This is all props to the Mad Priest who blogs here.
+Gene’s sermon for today is here.
And, while we’re at it, [...]