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RODIE AND I Will be in Toronto this weekend for Pride Festivities. It’s an intense party. In fact it’s about the best one I’ve seen and I’ve been for pride in Atlanta, New York, San Francisco and a few other, smaller cities around the USA. I’m reposting this. It’s what we [...]

Revised Common Lectionary:

1 Samuel 15:34 – 16:13

Ezekiel 17:22-24

2 Corinthians 5:6-17

Mark 4:26-34

Eastern Rite:

Romans 2:10-16

Matthew 4:18-23

When Gentiles, who do not possess the law, do instinctively what the law requires, these, though not having the law, are a law to themselves… God, through Jesus Christ, will judge the secret thoughts of all.
‘PRAZDZNIKOM! A Blessed Feast to you! [...]

HE ANGLICAN Bishop of Cyberspace (at least by my nomination), Alan Wilson, has made two posts on open communion:
Liturgical Terrorism or the Future
Intercommunion: Finding a Way Home
The Bishop is speaking of communion between Christian bodies, of what happens when Jack the Methodist and Tor the Lutheran and Haagen the Reformed Kirker all gather at the [...]

I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some.
NE OF The things that I struggle with is the idea of “the Holy guy”. This has plagued me from High School. I didn’t go into bars (etc) when I was growing up not because it was immoral [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

FRIEND – Who may identify theirself if they wish – recently took a new parish assignment. There was much rejoicing. The friend asked me for advice on Emergent Church Models and “how to do emergent”. You know: what books to read, etc.
And it was in the process of two conversations over [...]

For the LORD has ransomed Jacob, and has redeemed him from hands too strong for him.
Jeremiah 31:11
OR SOME Reason, ECUSA has different readings assigned to the the Sundays after Christmas than the RCL. I’m going to stick to the RCL Second Sunday after Christmas, Year B: the ECUSA lectionary, which has the same set [...]

ROPER CHRISTIAN Revolution is a threat to the social order. Opposition to caste system is root of attacks against Christians in India, says archbishop. He errs, I think, when he hopes, “We will be given help by the central government and by the State” because that comes at a price. But Glory [...]

ITH Prayers ascending for the persecuted Christians of India, this article made me so honoured to be a Christian:
Indian archbishop says extremists persecute Christians for helping the poor. Christians are violating the taboo against helping the poor, the untouchables, the lower classes and “are persecuted above all because of [their] social efforts to help [...]