Monday, July 28, 2008

Seeing the Whole Board

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In a particularly fine episode of The West Wing (which, for the record, I still miss), President Bartlett is playing chess one evening with...
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Saturday, July 19, 2008

Expecting, Hoping, Wishing

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The Lambeth Conference is now well underway--though still in the 'retreat' phase--as is my vacation--though not yet in the 'retr...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Schofield Update

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Last night I thought I was giving up punditry for a while, but ... oh well. The archbishop's letter is a pretty masterful example of wal...
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Rowan on San Joaquin

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These are the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury, as quoted in a letter from Bishop Venables to the (Anglican) Diocese of San Joaquin: I ...
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Sunday, July 13, 2008

Plain Logic

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The Lambeth Conference begins in earnest this week. I'm on information overload. And if I try to be a pundit, I'll just be contribut...
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Wednesday, July 09, 2008

A Shameless Personal Plug

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It's not like this is an uneventful week in Anglicanland. As if, in the light of GAFCON, the bishops beginning to gather in Canterbury f...
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Saturday, July 05, 2008

York Lauds Canterbury

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(To the cognoscenti , there's a level of pun-ditry in that title that was unintentional, but it's too delicious to remove.) Rowan Wi...
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Friday, July 04, 2008

Our Nation's Birthday

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From the Liturgical Notes section of last Sunday's service booklet in my parish: In the calendar of the American Prayer Book, Independen...
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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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