Sunday, December 31, 2006

Seven Swans A-Swimming

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Happy Seventh Day of Christmas. Christmas is multi-dimensional. There's the very concrete narrative of Christmas Eve, brought to us by...
Saturday, December 30, 2006

Six Geese A-Laying

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Happy Sixth Day of Christmas. One of the legends associated with the song The Twelve Days of Christmas is that it was originally a piece of...
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Friday, December 29, 2006

Five Golden Rings

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Happy Fifth Day of Christmas. We have no "major holy day" today, beyond being in the midst of a festal season, but we do have a ...
Thursday, December 28, 2006

Four Calling Birds

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Happy Fourth Day of Christmas. As I mentioned two days ago in connection with St Stephen's Day, it is slightly ironic, and also slightly...
Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Three French Hens

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Happy Third Day of Christmas. It's also St John's Day--the patron saint of my parish, and a great many others. It's too bad for ...
Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Two Turtle Doves

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Happy Second Day of Christmas ... aka Boxing Day ... aka St Stephen's Day (as in when Good King Wenceslas looked out on the deep, crisp,...
Saturday, December 23, 2006

Friendly Fire

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Apropos of the most recent blog post before this one, I find myself increasingly concerned by tensions within those quarters of the Anglican...
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Friday, December 22, 2006

It's Not Just in Virginia

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In the ongoing drama of the realignment of American Anglicanism, most of the attention over the last few days and weeks has been focused on ...
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Thursday, December 21, 2006

Seventeen Years

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There's no particular reason to mark the seventeenth anniversary of anything, except perhaps that it's a prime number, and that shou...
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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

An Honor Never Sought

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The blog Stand Firm is hosting the 2007 (first annual?) Anglican Blog Awards . My humble and unworthy offering has been nominated--by whom ...

Prognosticating

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Anyone who has participated on an internet message board has learned that cyberspace is a harshly unforgiving environment. Whatever we write...
Monday, December 18, 2006

Lessons & Carols Afterglow

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It was a lovely service, a full church, a great choir, fabulous music, with the measured unfolding of the drama ("The Mystery of Our Re...
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Sunday, December 17, 2006

A Shameles Plug

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For any of you out there in blogland who happen find yourselves in central California this weekend, come on over to Stockton and experience ...
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Friday, December 15, 2006

The Anglican News Day

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This is not a news blog. I don't attempt to scoop anyone. And I try to avoid fomenting what seems to me much of the time to be a highly ...
Monday, December 11, 2006

The Nativity Story

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The youth group of St John's made an outing to the cineplex across the street from the church this afternoon to take in The Nativity Sto...
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Saturday, December 09, 2006

Interpreting Scripture

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For reasons that are not entirely clear to me, I remain a subscriber--and an occasional (formerly frequent) poster--to the House of Bishops/...
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Friday, December 08, 2006

The Mystery of Prayer

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I just got an eMail from a friend two-thirds of the way across the country. My friend said, "I remembered you in prayer at Mass." ...
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Feeling Blue

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After the momentous convention vote last Saturday, during a break, I was speaking with a lay delegate from another parish, someone who has s...
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Sunday, December 03, 2006

The Convention

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Well, we did it. Here's the language of the new Article II of our diocesan constitution if it passes next year on a second reading: The ...
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Friday, December 01, 2006

Realpolitik

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I love the lexical flexibility of the German language. Compound nouns can pop out of nowhere as the need arises. (My favorites are heilsgesc...
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