Posted in church geekery, emergent, praxis conversation on 8 January 2009 - 13 טבת 5769
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 [...]
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Posted in church geekery on 27 November 2008 - 1 כסלו 5769
ISHOP Alan on the difference between Tradition and “Traditionalism”:
Tradition is lived reality — in the New Testament “I received of the Lord what I passed on to you;” I received it as I received it, and you received it as the person you were, lived it fallibly, but authentically enough to pass it on. [...]
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Posted in pings on 25 November 2008 - 28 חשון 5769
As a preface to a post that I’m writing, here’s a question for anyone who cares to answer in the box: What makes something Anglican or Not?
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Posted in Teh Gay, orthoparadoxy on 14 November 2008 - 17 חשון 5769
OLLOWING The earlier post about Tradition, there was a good, sort conversation between several parties, especially Arturo. And two things came to mind in that conversation, which I’ll venture into now. By mixing them, I will probably annoy the flying heck out of nearly all participants. That’s partly my intent, I admit: but [...]
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Posted in Teh Gay, orthoparadoxy on 6 November 2008 - 9 חשון 5769
ANY OF the conversations happening around my RSS feeds, recently, seem to all revolve around the same subjects:Derek’s, Christopher’s, Luiz’; comments here, and here; most importantly
Arturo’s on-going postings all over his blog - too numerous to provide individual links.
I’ve also been reading Olivier Clement’s Roots of Christian Mysticism about the theologians from the 1st-c4th [...]
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Posted in liturgy on 28 September 2008 - 29 אלול 5768
HIS IS Part 2 on the Liturgy of the Faithful. Be sure and read Part 1 as well!
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Posted in liturgy on 26 September 2008 - 27 אלול 5768
NE OF The members of my Eastern Rite Anglicanism group on Facebook asked me about the New Skete Liturgy. Although I don’t think I could post a full text of their liturgy (Which would be meaningless without all the rubrics, etc) in the context of an Eastern Rite Anglican discussion, I think a synopsis - [...]
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Posted in church geekery, orthoparadoxy on 25 September 2008 - 26 אלול 5768
ER HOST Has been involved in some interesting discussions recently, which I shall leave private. But they have given me cause to explore Tradition under different metaphor.
As you know, in the course of these pages, I’ve often asked readers to help me understand the difference between (T)radition and (t)radition. Regardless of my [...]
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