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1) There is a right way to do Christianity and a wrong way to do it. 2) This right and wrong has little to do with “doctrine” per se (debatable, iota-sized technicalities about begetting and essence and accident and que) and much to do with practice (do justice, love mercy, pray for enemies, forgive, etc). [...]

ATHER GEOFF Posts A response to a second E-mail from someone of the religious right. It’s an interesting conversation, but I’d like to highlight his quote from retired Roman Catholic Bishop Geoffrey Robinson‘s book Confronting Power and Sex in the Catholic Church. Far too often the Catholic Church has believed that it had such a [...]

The Readings for Sunday, August 2, Proper 13 (18) Year B, Revised Common Lectionary: 2 Samuel 11:26 – 12:13a Psalm 51:1-12 Exodus 16:2-4, 9-15 Psalm 78:23-29   Ephesians 4:1-16 John 6:24-35 We must no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about by every wind of doctrine, by people’s trickery, by their craftiness in [...]

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. And [...]