Some place between 40 and Death
Posted in Egg Cracking, Epicaricacy, politics on 2 June 2008 - 29 אייר 5768
I’ve had the day to cogitate on the article from Harper’s referenced in the previous post. And it has been quite a day: my office, filled with mentally healthy folks, puts work down in some quite logical piles on Friday and picks them up again on Monday. Taking the reactor off line and [...]
Posted in Egg Cracking, church geekery on 2 June 2008 - 29 אייר 5768
If you’ve missed the rumble in the blogoshere, go out and buy the current edition of Harper’s Magazine and read Turning away from Jesus: Gay rights and the war for the Episcopal Church by Garret Keizer. It’s not another left-good/right-bad piece. Nor is it another right-good/left-bad piece. It’s a Jesus-good/rest of us-messed [...]
Posted in Egg Cracking, church geekery, emergent on 31 May 2008 - 27 אייר 5768
Bishop Alan writes of hopelessness as sickness in the Body of Christ.
Some kind of internal distraction process seems to be pulling the wagons off the trail, dragging them into a defensive, inward looking circle. To change the metaphor, perhaps the body of Christ is subject to the kind of illness in which the body’s immune [...]
Posted in Egg Cracking, other geekery on 28 May 2008 - 24 אייר 5768
This conference At St Vladimir’s looks very interesting. I notice that while there are a lot of mainstream Orthodox, there is only two Episcopalians - and not very mainstream at that - both semi-Schismatic, I think.
It seems a curious melange of Orthodox, however: liberals and conservative.
Oddly for an OCA Seminary, [...]
Posted in Egg Cracking, church geekery on 27 May 2008 - 23 אייר 5768
Cuz you can’t tell the players without a Programme! The Pluralist has this prediction:
The Anglican Communion is as near as dividing as it can be. It will be surprising if it does not. Northern/ Western Churches by and large will not accept a restrictive Covenant or one that goes beyond present Anglican formularies. Against [...]
Posted in Egg Cracking, church geekery on 25 May 2008 - 21 אייר 5768
I drafted this essay on ECUSA last night, with some edits this AM. Feedback is welcomed (on this blog post - not on the parish website, thanks). Naturally, the history is biased, as is all history: I left out the part about the Anglican inquisition.
Posted in Egg Cracking, metanoia on 15 May 2008 - 11 אייר 5768
A hearty “Brava” to the Women Clergy of the Church of England who have written one of the saddest and most-Christian of letters I’ve seen in a while.
We believe that it should be possible for women to be consecrated as bishops, but not at any price. The price of legal “safeguards” for those opposed is [...]
Posted in Egg Cracking on 6 May 2008 - 2 אייר 5768
The Courts of Canada have ordered Anglicans to act like Christians to each other!
A Superior Court judgment released yesterday has ordered three parishes in the diocese of Niagara that voted earlier this year to affiliate themselves with the Province of the Southern Cone to share the use of their property with the diocese.
Bravo! Bravo!
Posted in Egg Cracking, church geekery, liturgy, orthoparadoxy on 8 April 2008 - 4 ניסן 5768
So, lets take all the essays in this series:
Intro
Can a hand say to a foot
Fear
Faith 1
Faith 2
Faith 3
Faith 4 (a summation of the three)
Love
I spent the most time on “Faith” because that’s what seems to be making the big stumbling block: some people, Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic (and some Anglicans, too) seem to think that [...]
Posted in Egg Cracking, orthoparadoxy on 7 April 2008 - 3 ניסן 5768
Just to sum it all up: (if you don’t want to read the three essays below) faith has nothing to do with a checklist of items in which one believes as a child believes in Santa Claus. We know someone’s faith not by what they say… but by what they do. If they [...]
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The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 by Eamon Duffy
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