Confessions of a Carioca

Carioca: Anyone born in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Confess: to acknowledge one's belief or faith in; declare adherence to, to reveal by circumstances.

Friday, May 30, 2008

Boomer Angst

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I'm already on record as not being particularly a fan of my own Baby Boomer generation. We're a bunch of Peter Pans; we've neve...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

A Statement from the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Northern Indiana

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From here: We, the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Northern Indiana strongly protest the failure of the Presiding Bishop, Katherine Jef...
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My New Avatar

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I won't explain. Browse the comments on what is currently the lead essay (far right column) on Stand Firm (my name is in the title) and...
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Sunday, May 25, 2008

Perception is Reality

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That old internet dowager, the House of Bishops/Deputies listserv, is usually a little slow on the uptake, so its members are only beginning...
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Readability

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OK, I pretty much thought so. The blog medium seems to encourage the untethering of a writer's true literary self. Fortunately for my pa...
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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Proper 1

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Remember, O Lord, what you have wrought in us and not what we deserve; and, as you have called us to your service, make us worthy of our cal...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

My Sermon Blog is Back

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Here. It has lain fallow during Paschaltide because I have been preaching extemporaneously (indeed, in a most evangelical expository fashion...
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

On Lectio Divina

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For those who don't look at TitusOneNine, or who didn't bother to click on the link in that venue, I do encourage you to see this ar...
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Friday, May 09, 2008

Lost in Wonder, Love, & Praise

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I seldom cry real tears. I'm just not put together that way. But I do weep in spirit over a great number of things--the ordinary sorrows...
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Thursday, May 08, 2008

Whom Do YOU "Meet " on Sunday Morning?

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Each of us is conditioned to notice certain things more than others when we encounter "the media." As a "religious profession...
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Some Good Straws to Grasp At

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Maybe I've been drinking the water at the Hillary Clinton School of Optimism, but I find myself encouraged by today's news that the ...
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008

We've Always Done It That Way Before

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This just in from the Anglican Communion Institute re the mysterious memo made public last week asserting a case for presentment against th...
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Saturday, May 03, 2008

San Joaquin's Legal Status Explicated

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A.S. Haley in his blog The Anglican Curmudgeon is doing top-drawer work analyzing and explaining the evolving legal situation among Anglica...
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Friday, May 02, 2008

Diachronic Koinonia

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I was immediately captivated by this expression the moment I heard it proceed from the mouth of the Bishop of Rome as he addressed a gatheri...
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Sunday, April 27, 2008

Burning Bridges

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The cold front sweeping across northern Indiana from the west tonight brings with it news of the commencement of litigation over the ecclesi...
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Sunday, April 20, 2008

Eamus Catuli

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I have a fondness for Latin mottoes and aphorisms. I've always especially liked Nolite illegitimi contrere vos (the unofficial motto of...
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Saturday, April 19, 2008

If the shoe fits...

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Without planning to do so, I happened to catch Pope Benedict's address (on a "tape delay" of about three hours) last night at...
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Friday, April 18, 2008

A Logical Inference

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I catch some flak for continuing to bring up issues related to the Diocese of San Joaquin (in any of its 2.5 current incarnations). I can un...
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A Quotable Quote

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"For Christians who take I Peter seriously, the line on the application that asks for race ought to be filled in 'Christian.'...
Thursday, April 17, 2008

More Praise for Due Process

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The inimitable House of Bishops/Deputies listserv, where I cut my teeth on cyber- "conversation" beginning almost six years ago no...
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Daniel Martins
Springfield, Illinois, United States
Daniel Hayden Martins, aka Dan (to my friends), Danny Boy (to some of my Brazilian relatives), Big Guy (to my kids and their friends), Bishop Daniel among those with whom I work, and probably some other aliases I'm not aware of. I'm an Anglican bishop, a Baby Boomer who was born in Brazil, raised in the Chicago suburbs (at the end of a runway at O'Hare), and has lived in both central and southern California, western Oregon, southeast Wisconsin, and south Louisiana. Married 43 years to Brenda, father of three fabulous grown children, and now serving the Diocese of Springfield (Episcopal Church).
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