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HE Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church has recently pissed off a number of her detractors. She’s called the idea of “individual salvation” a heresy.
The crisis of this moment has several parts, and like Episcopalians, particularly the ones in Mississippi, they’re all related. The overarching connection in all of these crises has to [...]

HE LARGEST Province in the Anglican Communion has declared full communion with the local, schismatic continuing church, made up of people who disagree on Doctrine, Liturgy and Tradition. But they, like their Guru, all agree that they hate the gays with a passion formerly reserved for blacks and Jews.
Fr Mark Explains [...]

ITH THIS part of the F.A.Q., we leave behind the questions of “how?” and “what?”, focusing more on the “who?” and “Why?”

Cartoon by Dave Walker.

E RETURN to the arcane code of the definition list. Yes, I think I shall have to codify this in the future in to categories, etc. But for now, just a DL tag and off we go:

VERY ONCE IN A WHILE I craft a phrase that keeps getting hits. “Eastern Rite Anglican”, mentioned only once on this blog (and rather deep in a post) is one of those phrases. Seems a lot of people like the idea and keep Googling it.
OK, so off I go. For this purpose we [...]

S PART of my on-going vocational discernment, I’ve decided to look at clergy that I admire and pull out common traits. Actually, there’s a modicum of parallels even with some clergy I despise…
To use an over-abused word, all of ‘em are Mavericks. A maverick is an unbranded range animal, especially a motherless calf. It [...]

Mark reports that the Very Prot Deposed Bishop Bob Duncan, formerly of Pittsburgh, has been preaching at the Self-Ruled Antiochian Village and that the very Catholic Deposed Bishop Jack Iker, formerly of Fort Worth, has been seen with Mtr. Jonah of the OCA. Both friendships seem rather more geographic than ecclesiastic. But [...]

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 [...]

ISHOP ALAN’s recent post on Liberalism, religion, Milton at 400 moves to an interesting discussion of the roots of religious liberalism. In the discussion there is this from the Bp:
Liberality about faith comes from believing God is so important, that all lesser beings have a lot of play space, and you can trust him to [...]

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, [...]