Posted in pings on 7 January 2009 - 12 טבת 5769
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 [...]
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Posted in church geekery on 29 November 2008 - 3 כסלו 5769
OUND This on the Metropolitan’s Facebook Fan Page… one notes that like Bishop Benjamin, the Metropolitan can actually smile!
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Posted in church geekery on 5 September 2008 - 6 אלול 5768
OOD MAY YET Come from all this crap in the OCA. The proposal for the merger of the OCA with the AOA is once again on the table, at least in the Diocese of Eastern Pennsylvania.
And the steps seem to be following through already: there is no new Metropolitan being elected. Instead there [...]
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Posted in church geekery on 5 September 2008 - 6 אלול 5768
IS BEATITUDE, The OCA’s Metropolitan +Herman Retires! That’s what a good sex and money scandal can do to ya…
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Posted in Teh Gay, orthoparadoxy on 2 September 2008 - 3 אלול 5768
HIS Encyclical letter from the Orthodox Church in America’s Synod of Bishops is pretty amazing for its candour and honesty - but not for its completeness. It focuses on the finances and not on the sex issues: and, lo, I think Institutional Orthodoxy is once again playing “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell.”
Recognizing our weakness, and [...]
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