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.

Monday, January 19, 2009

Shalom

After a war in the area, and a family member's health crisis more recently, threatened to scuttle this trip, I am indeed about to walk o...

Friday, January 16, 2009

B033 Followup

Another snippet of my participation in the ongoing HoB/D discussion on the repeal of B033. Among those who post there, the sentiment is over...

Thursday, January 15, 2009

B033

With General Convention looming now less that seven months away, the HoB/D listserv is beginning to heat up over potential specific resoluti...

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Epiphany

I don't have anything terribly profound to say about this feast, which is probably in itself profound. Mostly, I'm grateful for the...

Thursday, January 01, 2009

Meeting the 22nd Century

My first grandchild--Charlotte Louise Martins Washington--was born three weeks ago tomorrow. But since her house is 537 miles away from mine...

Monday, December 29, 2008

What Santa Brought Me

On the first day of Christmas ... well, a couple of days early, for practical family reasons ... my wife and kids (two of them in absentia )...

Friday, December 26, 2008

An Important Conversation

Fellow Northern Indianan, newly-minted PhD, short-term missionary that my parish (modestly) helps support, and incoming editor of The Livin...

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

This Is Only A Test

The following Christmas greeting is widely available on the web, and I suspect that most readers of this blog have already seen it, and know...

Monday, December 22, 2008

Much Ado About Rick Warren

I have no personal investment in Rick Warren. I only skimmed A Purpose-Driven Life , so I could talk about it semi-intelligently when it was...

Saturday, December 13, 2008

Church Property Disputes & Common Sense

There's been a temptest raging today over on HoB/D over the amount of money (some $2 million, apparently) that the Episcopal Church has ...

Friday, December 12, 2008

I'm a Grampa!

Here she is. All 8 lbs. of her. Born a little after 1 PM Central Time today. Ain't she cute?!

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Covenant, the ???

If you frequent this corner of cyperspace, chances are you are already aware of this one . I am privileged to have been associated with Cove...

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

On Doing the Wrong Thing Well

One cannot practice the Christian faith both long and deeply without somehow coming to terms with its paradoxical nature: God is one and God...

Saturday, November 29, 2008

Advent

One of the small joys of my vocation is that I get to spend Saturdays puttering around the church more or less alone. No other staff are aro...

Monday, November 24, 2008

Who's Episcopal and Who's Not

In 2000, Arnold Schwarzenegger starred in the sci-fi flick The 6th Day . He plays a cop who discovers that there's a clone of himself ru...

Friday, November 14, 2008

Up In Smoke

The heart-wrenching news for me today comes from the Santa Barbara suburban neighborhood of Montecito, home of Westmont College , my alma ma...

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Hot News from the Heartland, II

(See here for Part I.) Warsaw, Indiana--where I live and move and have my being--is the seat of Kosciusko (kah-zee-AH-sko) County. (One mig...

Saturday, November 08, 2008

Rebellion or Revolution?

Blessedly, the secular political arena has calmed down a bit after last Tuesday's election. The run-up to (and the run-down from?) elect...

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Evangelicals to Liberals: "Psst! Meet Me in Back of the Barn"

Sydney is the largest and wealthiest and arguably the most influential of the dioceses that comprise the Anglican Church in Australia. It ha...

Friday, October 24, 2008

Hailing from Helena

The Executive Council of the Episcopal Church has just concluded its quarterly four-day meeting, this time in Helena, Montana. (Their practi...

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About Me

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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