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O WE WERE Sipping tea in the church, a clergy friend and I, relaxing in that most Orthodox of fashion: making Eucharist and fellowship with our ginger beer and crisps after a really smashing pot luck. We were discussing “What makes it Christian community” – that is a church or a meal or whatever. [...]

Preached on 24 June 2001 at St Gregory of Nyssa Church in San Francisco… sorry for the repost: I’m in Toronto at the Pride Festival.
t’s my sense that both these readings that we’ve heard today talk about healing of one sort or another. The Gospel speaks of an internal healing, and the Epistle talks about [...]

RODIE AND I Will be in Toronto this weekend for Pride Festivities. It’s an intense party. In fact it’s about the best one I’ve seen and I’ve been for pride in Atlanta, New York, San Francisco and a few other, smaller cities around the USA. I’m reposting this. It’s what we [...]

N June of 1969, the “Homosexualist” movement was having a hard time. The cops were closing down gay bars (again) and no one was helping. The mafia – which owned all the bars – was making payments on time, but the cops and the mafia had agreed: we’ll close down your gay clubs [...]

HANKS To my brother, Geoff, for this quote…
[Orthodox lay theologian Paul Evdokimov] developed a typology of the division of apostolic charisms among the churches, emphasizing their validity and unity in diversity while acknowledging their interdependence and the tragedy of their continued separation from each other. He spoke, leaning on Soloviev, of the “Pauline” (Reformation), the [...]

Revised Common Lectionary:

1 Samuel 15:34 – 16:13

Ezekiel 17:22-24

2 Corinthians 5:6-17

Mark 4:26-34

Eastern Rite:

Romans 2:10-16

Matthew 4:18-23

When Gentiles, who do not possess the law, do instinctively what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves… God, through Jesus Christ, will judge the secret thoughts of all.
‘PRAZDZNIKOM! A Blessed Feast to you! [...]

HE ANGLICAN Bishop of Cyberspace (at least by my nomination), Alan Wilson, has made two posts on open communion:
Liturgical Terrorism or the Future
Intercommunion: Finding a Way Home
The Bishop is speaking of communion between Christian bodies, of what happens when Jack the Methodist and Tor the Lutheran and Haagen the Reformed Kirker all gather at the [...]

Christ is Risen!

CTUALLY, Yer Host is very sucky at maintaining a rule of prayer for any period of time (9-12 months is about average). For the last year I was using the Church of England’s Common Worship: Daily Prayer which I love. But it’s rather light… and the lectionary is choppy.
Right now I’m [...]

NCE AGAIN The point is made that the general “loud mouth” Atheists really miss the point. But, once again, they don’t miss it by too far. Take a read of Is Christianity Simply About God Entering the Uterus of a Jewish Virgin?
The problem is, of course, that it really *is* exactly about that. [...]

Christ is Risen!

OPE Benedict 16, when he sways into modern morals and politics, is a bit of a nutter, but on the Church’s tradition he is perfectly patristic and a blessing. The most common problem shared by Biblical critics (left, right, progressive theist or atheist) is that they refuse to admit or accept that [...]