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Y SOME STANDARDS I’ve fallen off in recent years: I’ve stopped ranting about “modernists” and “heretics” and, even, managed to offend some of my anti-modernist, anti-heretical friends. By other standards – my own internal meter, my confessor, etc – I’ve managed to make peace with a few people that used to really dislike me. [...]

ETWEEN THE POST On my grandmother (above) and January 1999, a number of things happened. My roomies asked me to move out – and I moved in with Rick, a friend I knew from St Gregory’s Church. At the same time, I was wrestling with what church means, what Christianity means. I’d [...]

ETROSPECTIVES Were promised for these ten days leading up to the beginning of my blogging sabbatical.
15 Years ago we were using an email chain letter as our electronic journal: several coworkers and myself would forward our “weekend report” to a central editor or editrix (I gave it up after a year, but then [...]

After percolating for about a week, Sunday’s sermon started to write itself yesterday at Lunch. I shared with a housemate that being away from a paper and pen (or keyboard) felt like being trapped in a car and needing to go to the bathroom.
Returning to work has been an odd event: it’s kinda like [...]

IFE IN THE Indy movement is no easier than any other denominational flavour (not that I expected it would be) although there are some interesting twists and turns.
Still looking for a confessor… despite all attempts in good faith, I’ve not met anyone who is willing to hear my confession whom I want to visit. [...]

ERGE RECENTLY WROTE Some very kind (tough but kind) things about me on his blog last week and then entered into a dialogue about those things in the comment section. Other people have asked me about the things he said: are they true?
First, thank you Serge. I’m honoured by your kindness. And by [...]

HE WEEKEND Was amazingly good, I have to say. Friday fish fry, Saturday errands and Sunday church. Some friends and readers should be receiving packages in the mail (long-expected ones). I had a great talk on the phone with a friend on Saturday morning and then sat in Spot Coffee for a [...]

Boss asked for a Mission Statement: As part of a lived proclamation of God’s reconciliation of the world to Himself in Jesus, my mission is to seek and serve Christ in all persons, striving for justice and peace among all people, respecting the dignity of every human being; offering God’s hospitality to all presiding [...]

FTER SLEEPING Most of the day (wake from nap, then Greg the Bunny on DVD, then nap. Repeat) I have to admit I’m feeling rather better. I haven’t had a ramble in a long while…

ARX, with all its various predecessors (including the E-zine) will be 14 years old on the 23rd. Believe it or not. I have access to well over 9,000 posts (and that’s not accounting for a few that are missing) including some that reach back to 1997, several hundred thousand page view (not yet a [...]