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HE NEW MILLENNIUM Brought me to several surprising changes all at once. My job at the California Institute of Integral Studies allowed me to take classes at a discounted rate so I used my benefit to finish my BA. The BA Completion Programme at CIIS spent a good deal of time discussing why it was [...]

HIS CAME Across the AP yesterday, pointed out to me by a friend on Twitter. Russian Orthodox Church embraces gays. “IS OUTRAGE!” says Fr Vasili, I’m sure: not lamenting the sudden embrace, but rather the misleading headline. Be sure to read the AP story: essentially gay is still bad, but we oppose persecution of gays. [...]

HE MOVEMENT “Community” is a Finnish ecumenical organisation that seeks to include members of sexual minorities (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, Queer, etc) in the full life of the Church. I found out about them reading a report against them from a conservative group within the Finnish Orthodox Church, the Brotherhood of St Kosmas of Aitolia. [...]

EEN A GOOD Day since my earlier post: UPDATE (1): Fr Peter responds in grace and love and keeping to the traditional teachings of his church. Amen! Update (2) Rick Warren does the right thing UPDATE (3) Rod’s on board. Update (4) The Vatican Chimes in today as well. They all hedge their bets but [...]

HINGS THAT MAKE You want to be an atheist… 1) I do, really, believe there is a right way to do CHristianity and a wrong way to do it. 2) I do, really, believe that this right and wrong has little to do with “doctrine” per se (iota sized technicalities about begetting and essence and [...]

ODAY the European Court of Human Rights ordered the schools in Italy to remove crucifixes from the classrooms. Roman Catholic reaction (and, I’m sure, others…) has been a predictable whinge about “removing religion from the public sphere” and religious rights and what have you. It is a huge historical irony that this should come on [...]

HANKS, PINE Tree State, for once again proving that civil right should never – ever – be left up to a simple majority vote. The simple majority always wins. One wonders why Americans (and the rest of the world) are still so fascinated by democracy. Freedom, I can understand, liberty, equality, etc. But tyranny of [...]

EWLICIOUS Writer, Sarke, has an email conversation with her buddy, Earl, about living inside structures. I’m sorry to say she parallels religion with suburbia, but other than that, it works. She well points out from an Orthodox (Jewish) point of view why it is that the traditions and community of her chosen path offer her [...]

T ONE TIME, As many readers know, I attempted to live out what I saw as Theological Orthodoxy within a “canonical” Orthodox Church. At the time this included traditional teachings on human sexuality: these are heteronomative assumptions of monogamy equated with divine revelations of morality – and to make that statement I do not need [...]

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, [...]