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OR MORE ON THE Fallout from revolution, here’s a quote from one gay priest in ECUSA: “I’m also trying to find a reason to believe that our actions this past week of General Convention will do anything to help the Communion to not disintegrate even more. As one gay priest, and with many I know, [...]

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 do [...]

Christ is Risen! REIND Of this Blog and my own friend, Donald Schell, has posted a piece over at the Episcopal Cafe on the icon of the Dancing Saints at St Gregory of Nyssa Church. Donald’s article documents the process in which the community engaged on the way, debating and finally selecting the images painted [...]

IA THE Internet Yer Host learned of a U2charist being offered in Buffalo… and for a number of reasons, I spent the night imbibing Harpoon’s Hefeweizen beer and watching M*A*S*H instead. What’s a U2charist? Quothe the wiki: A U2Charist’ (also spelled eU2charist or U2 Eucharist) is a communion service, or Eucharist, accompanied by U2 songs [...]

HE ODDEST Thing is transpiring: middle-to-left-side of the road Episcopalians are complaining about the Bishop Elect of Northern Michigan and refusing to grant consent to his Election. Again, I am of two minds. It’s kinda neat that someone other than the usual suspects is asking questions – not just about his experience with non-Christian religions, [...]

HE EPISCOPAL Diocese in which I live has decided too take Discrimination a step further than is required by Episcopal Law. Not only are we not to elect a gay Bishop, we’re not to have gay candidates. I’m of two minds… on the one hand it is good that someone – anyone – in ECUSA [...]

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.

ALKING TO Work this AM, I had a bit of a revelation: I’m big on St Paul’s bit about not causing the weaker brethren to stumble. In fact, I think that Gene Robinson should have graciously stood aside rather than cause the current wars in the Anglican Communion. I’m also convinced that “weaker brethren” is [...]

BOUT The time I was 17, I took a ride with my Mom and a Rabbi. For work, Mom was driving the conserva/dox Rabbi to Newark Airport. Mom was a paralegal and, although I’m not sure, I imagine the Rabbi was a client or witness for a client of the law office where Mom worked. [...]

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 [...]