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So, to repeat my Twitter and facebook status, my Dad, Walter, had a heart attack today, at about 1PM. Mom called at about 1:30 to let me know. It was a stressful moment. To be honest I was very surprised at the amount of emotion that it brought up. My friends on FB and Twitter [...]

Hmm. Ending lent by yelling at my computer over a point of church polity. Nice. Asking your forgiveness and your prayers.

What St. Seraphim meant: Acquire inner coffee and a multitude near you will be safe.

AXIOS! For the new Bishop Elect of the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, Lawrence C. Provenzano.

Boss asked for a Mission Statement: As part of a lived proclamation of God’s reconciliation of the world to Himself in Jesus, my mission is to seek and serve Christ in all persons, striving for justice and peace among all people, respecting the dignity of every human being; offering God’s hospitality to all presiding at [...]

ECUSA needs our prayers – no matter what side you’re on or where you’ve transferred to (in or out of the communion or continuum) or even if you were never a member. Increasingly the official blogs of all partisans are painful to read and the bloggers who are not partisans are hard to find.

Hearing the OCA’s New Metropolitan refer to “a bunch of old queens going around in Byzantine drag…” priceless.

Listening to the Schmemann lectures, I’m getting an image of Mary and Martha as a Yin/Yang paring – both needed, both important. Here/Not yet, In the world/Not of it etc. I nearly died laughing when the ROCOR Nun asked, “Can we be in the world and not of it?” And ended her lecture with, “Yes, [...]

Had a clear breakthrough about “professional clergy” vrs “spiritual path of priesthood”. I don’t think they *have* to be separate, but I think they often are. And, I don’t think you need one to do the other as both require an “apostolic blessing”. You have to be called to one, but the other is Just [...]

There are days when Protestant theology – as expressed in preaching – lives up to the “shallow wells” metaphor. This is not true of all cases: the first patristic thinkers, the first deep biblical scholars I ever met were Prots. When I image my heroes, people I want to be like, I cross those Prots [...]