Sarx

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 [...]

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 [...]

HIS Is the first in a series on The Church and the Homosexual by the Rev’d John McNeill.
Preface & Introduction
The preface begins with noting the book had originally been granted an imprimatur by the Church. This was later retracted. Then the author was silenced by the Church, and then expelled from his [...]

VER ON Pomomusings, Adam has been reviewing Jesus, the Bible & Homosexuality, by Jack Rogers and in his post on Chapter 4, Adam has summarised a list of guidelines for reading scripture. Guideline 2 says:
Let the focus be on the plain text of Scripture, to the grammatical and historical context, rather than to allegory [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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?

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 [...]

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 [...]

HIS IS Part 2 on the Liturgy of the Faithful. Be sure and read Part 1 as well!