Saturday, February 23, 2008

The Horses Have Left the Barn

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The Revd George Conger--who reports regularly for The Living Church , as well as producing free-lance journalism--has broken the news on Rel...
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Saturday, February 16, 2008

Out of the Mouths of Babes...

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I can speak that way of Father Will Brown , because he's young enough to be my son, and, in fact, was a college buddy of my actual son. ...
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Thursday, February 14, 2008

A Hermeneutical Foray

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Ever since I became "cyberspatially active" in church affairs--first on the HoB/D about six years ago, then in the blogsphere some...
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Monday, February 11, 2008

An English Lesson

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Those "-ing" words were GERUNDS, for Pete's sake! They may have looked like verbs, but they were nouns in drag. They should ha...
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Sunday, February 10, 2008

Getting In Touch With My Feelings

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I am in one of those states in which there is more on my heart than I can adequately process through my head, and hence cannot adequately pu...
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Thursday, February 07, 2008

Ash Wednesday Wisdom (the day after)

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As you may know if you have frequented this location in cyberspace for a while, my wife's home planet is Pluto. Since I am very much an ...
Sunday, February 03, 2008

Yet Some More Notes

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The last couple of days have been a rough ride in cyberspace over goings-on in and about my former diocese of San Joaquin. There is a great ...
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Saturday, February 02, 2008

More San Joaquin Flotsam and Jetsam

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I've been busy today being a one man Rapid Response Team/Truth Squad elsewhere in the blogsphere. Most everyone who checks this site pro...
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Friday, February 01, 2008

Back Atcha, Katharine

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The news has already broken, but the Standing Committee of the Diocese of San Joaquin has responded to the Presiding Bishop's ill-advise...
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Sunday, January 27, 2008

The PB Looks a Gift Horse in the Mouth

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... and then declines the offer. The San Joaquin drama took another turn yesterday--one that I have to say caught me by surprise, and very l...
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Now See This

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One of the central theses of my three previous posts has been to encourage a complex--rather than a merely binary--understanding of goings-o...
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Sunday, January 20, 2008

Update...

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...on the immediate previous post. I realize it was a bit of a bombshell. There have been suggestions that the veracity of my report may be ...
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Saturday, January 19, 2008

A Saturday Morning Massacre

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I am of an age to remember Watergate, and Richard Nixon's firing of the Attorney General for his refusal to fire the Special Prosecutor,...
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Monday, January 14, 2008

San Joaquin Annotated

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When does a crisis simply become normal ? The crisis in the Episcopal Church and in the worldwide Anglican Communion has been described rec...
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Saturday, January 12, 2008

What he said...

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...because I couldn't say it any better myself. Do check out this from Fr Tony Clavier on the "love the sinner, hate the sin"...
Friday, January 11, 2008

Uh ... blasphemy?

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Reuters is carrying this story (hat tip to TitusOneNine) about a Coca-Cola ad campaign in Russia that employed religious (Russian Orthodox)...
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Collaborating

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Stand Firm is an very fine and usually well-written blog that has become a sort of flagship cybervoice for conservative Anglicans who have ...
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Tuesday, January 08, 2008

What Shall We Hate?

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Over on the House of Bishops/Deputies listserv there has been a recent thread that has made several of my hairs turn white. It has been an u...
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Sunday, January 06, 2008

Epiphany

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Here's my final snippet from the Ralph Vaughan Williams 1954 cantata Hodie . The text, like the second half of yesterday's treasure,...