Friday, June 25, 2010

Spelunking in the Hymnal 1940

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As is my wont on occasion, I spent some time this afternoon at the console of the “Mighty Rodgers” in St Anne’s Church playing through selec...
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010

Missional Notes

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A Canadian Anglican--a member of a parish that has recently severed its relationship with the Anglican Church of Canada, so it's fair to...
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Saturday, June 12, 2010

For the Record

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The last two to three weeks have been unusually eventful in Anglicanland. The Archbishop of Canterbury published his Pentecost Letter in wh...
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Thursday, June 03, 2010

Discerning the Body and Blood of Christ

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Today is the day on which the feast of Corpus Christi is observed. It was my joy to preside at the Mass for the eve of this feast last night...
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Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Technology Wish List, Revisited

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I have at times in the past written about how I try to employ technology as a useful servant—hopefully without inadvertently letting it beco...
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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Canterbury

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  Today is the (lesser) feast of St Augustine of Canterbury. He was the Roman monk who was sent to England by Pope Gregory (“the Great”) in...
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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Update on the Pax Nashotah

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The sturm und drang of Anglicanism seems quiet of late, but it’s a deceptive calm. It’s not a good kind of calm. The disintegration quietly...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Getting Religion

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Sadly, I am fluent in only one language, and will probably go to my grave in that lamentable state. I can carry on basic conversation (as lo...
Monday, May 10, 2010

Liturgy and Worship: A Distinction With a Difference

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I have from time to time offered the opinion that when Episcopalians and other Anglicans—and Christians in general, for that matter—are fini...
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Reflections on a Holy Spirit Hymn

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From my parish newsletter. Among the mysteries of our Christian faith, the Holy Spirit has certainly inspired a sizable amount of devotional...
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Quote of the Day

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"God is whoever raised Jesus from the dead, having before raised Israel from Egypt." --Robert Jenson, quoted by Stanley Hauerwas i...
Monday, April 26, 2010

What We're Actually Doing When We Come to Church

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I'm usually a few weeks behind in seriously reading through issues of The Living Church , an eminently worthy weekly publication that ha...
Friday, April 23, 2010

On Openness in the Process of Liturgical Change

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I have just sent the following letter to the Revd Dr Ruth Meyers in her capacity as Chair of the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music fo...
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

What He Says

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As the consecrations of the Bishops Suffragan of Los Angeles approach, the Anglican waters are once again stirring. I could not offer a more...
Monday, April 05, 2010

Notes from Great Paschal Vespers

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This will be succinct, as I'm writing from my iPhone while on a train. Last night I attended Paschal Vespers at the Basilica of the Sacr...
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

In Praise of the Daily Office

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Coming at the tradition of historic Christianity as I did (from free-church evangelicalism) and when I did (in my early twenties, nearly fou...
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Friday, March 19, 2010

Wiki Theology

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The Los Angeles Times carried a story earlier this week about a conference recently sponsored and hosted by the Claremont School of Theolo...
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Monday, March 08, 2010

Skating Toward Where the Puck is Going to Be

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Last week my friend and fellow blogger Nick Knisely (Dean of Trinity Cathedral in Phoenix and short-list nominee for Bishop of Kentucky) pos...
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