Monday, June 30, 2008

Spin Meter in the Red Zone

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The Presiding Bishop has issued her response to GAFCON. It is pithy: Much of the Anglican world must be lamenting the latest emission from G...
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Saturday, June 28, 2008

A First Take on the Jerusalem Declaration

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(...including the preliminary material.) I do mean a first take. I'm cherry picking here, and will doubtless have more to say when I...
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Some GAFCON Buckshot

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In a few hours, we should be able to have a look at the final GAFCON communique. Since my last post four days ago, the vibes I'm picking...
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

A Positive Trajectory?

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Fast-turnaround punditry is not my strength, so I may be skating on thin ice here. But what I am picking up from Jerusalem, both from readil...
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Sunday, June 22, 2008

Making Do With GAFCON

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The Global Anglican Future Conference is underway in Jerusalem. There is already so much being written about it that I hesitate to add my ow...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Rays of Sunshine

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If this blog is the only way you know me, you could be forgiven for thinking that my life is consumed by angst and drama. It isn't. I do...
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Monday, June 16, 2008

A Midrash on the Previous Post

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Apropos of the draft proposed revisions to the Title IV canons, a friend raised the question to me privately: If, at this time, no canons ex...
Saturday, June 14, 2008

Thoroughly Modern Ecclesiastical Discipline

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The Executive Council of the Episcopal Church received a briefing Saturday from the Title IV Task Force. (Title IV is that section of the ca...
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Thursday, June 12, 2008

Technical Difficulties

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I am told there are some bits of naked HTML code--making visible that which should be invisible--in the upstream post on Northern Indiana...

Northern Indiana's GC Deputation Responds to the St Andew's Draft

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Précis We, the lay and clerical deputies of the Diocese of Northern Indiana, gratefully endorse the “St Andrew’s Draft” of the evolving ...
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Thursday, June 05, 2008

Pittsburgh Lines Up Its Ducks

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It's no news that the Diocese of Pittsburgh is poised to follow my former diocese of San Joaquin into the arms of the Anglican Province ...
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Vox Populi Vox Dei?

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Bonnie Anderson, president of the Episcopal Church's House of Deputies, is a bright, dedicated, articulate, and tenacious woman. She can...
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008

Lambeth Update

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Thanks to information that has been shared with me by persons whose identities I should probably protect, I am personally convinced that Bis...
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Sunday, June 01, 2008

and the real (Anglican) Bishop of San Joaquin is ... ???

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I don't yet know what to make of this, but it's interesting. From here : Dear Friends, I received great news three days ago from the...
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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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