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EACON Ormonde tells the story of Buffalo’s Own Harriet Bedell. “Born in 1875 in Buffalo, New York, Harriet Bedell became a teacher with many young Indian students. In the winter of 1905-06, she attended a meeting at her church to hear a missionary speak of the need for more workers in China to spread the [...]

ISHOP ALAN Reminds us that God throws his shoe over Edom and that, yes, this is an expression of contempt. I well remember the campy Anglo-Catholic Priest, pardon the tautology, who giggled before Morning Prayer and said, “Over Edom she casts her pump.” THe Bible lives today in Modern Iraq! If you want to likewise [...]

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, but I knew [...]

UNDAY, Sitting in Christchurch Cathedral in Hamilton, it suddenly dawned on me: I’m Anglican because it’s so damned ethnic!

ROM THE Wiki: an Orthodox icon of the seven archangels. From left to right: Jegudiel, Gabriel, Selaphiel, Michael, Uriel, Raphael, Barachiel. Beneath the mandorla of Christ Emmanuel are representations of Cherubim (blue) and Seraphim (red).

UNDAY At the Cathedral in Hamilton they anticipated the Feast of St Michael and All Angels. I can think of several liturgically geeky comments to make about this, but none of them have anything to do with the point of this post…

ANY Readers of these pages will be familar with the “branch theory”: the idea that Romans and Eastern Orthodox and Anglicans are three “branches” of the Catholic tree. There more on it here although that article progresses beyond the range of this post and seems to confuse the Papal “two lung” idea with “branches”. But [...]

AS CARDINAL NEWMAN gay? Was Cardinal Newman straight? Good heavens, I don’t know. And neither do you. Or anyone else living today. If he was sexually attracted to anyone he was probably horrified about it in that repressed, old-school British way (mangled with the conservative Christian anti-Body neo-gnostic kinda way). Yet some folks imagine that [...]

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 ministry. [...]

ERE Is a wonderful Flickr-set of pictures from the shrine church at Kettlebaston, which I found linked through the photographer’s essay. View Larger Map