Wednesday, September 24, 2008

back in the day ...

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... the team that had the best record in the National League was deemed to have "won the pennant," and had a dugout reserved for t...
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Monday, September 22, 2008

On the Art of Abandoning Hope

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I try to hold charity as a default disposition. I try to assume the best about people, and to give every possible benefit of the doubt. I am...
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Saturday, September 13, 2008

Between Trips

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I'm home now for the weekend, having returned yesterday from North Carolina for a meeting of the Brazil Bi-Lateral Committee and leaving...
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Monday, September 08, 2008

Still Here

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My blogging persona has been largely AWOL of late, owing to the demands of my day job (people getting sick and/or dying, beginning of parish...
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Friday, August 29, 2008

A Note on the Cubs

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I first started following the Chicago Cubs in 1962, the summer leading up to my eleventh birthday. They lost a lot of games that year--many ...
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Monday, August 25, 2008

A Word in Time

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My "other blog"--a group effort in which I am privileged to be one of several contributors--has published an important open letter...
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Friday, August 22, 2008

Closing the Barn Door…

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... after the horses have long since escaped. The fun thing about the Anglicanland soap opera is that it's an action-packed adventure, n...
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Another Trace of the Alpha Issue

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I don't expect to ever get a clear shot at it . But the hunt is instructive, so I'll keep on rooting around for clues. The most rece...
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Friday, August 15, 2008

Pastoral Care On-the-Fly

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I first met Bill (not his real name) last November. He called me out of the blue early one afternoon from a funeral home. His wife had just ...
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In Search of the Transcendent Feminine

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As an Anglican who was raised and formed in a free-church evangelical milieu and who regularly casts an eye Romeward thinking, "What if...
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Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Setting the Record Straight (before it’s crooked)

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My vacation ends tonight, so I may as well wade back into the "conversation." A week ago yesterday, on August 5 th , a deadline pa...
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Sunday, August 03, 2008

Lambeth Post-Mortem

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In his 1999 book Plato, Not Prozac! , Lou Marinoff contends that a substantial proportion of human mental and emotional suffering stems not ...
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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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