Monday, September 29, 2014

Living With the End in Mind

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Full disclosure: My initial formation as a Christian was in fundagelicalism (a neologism that I thought up, though I'm not the only o...
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Sunday, September 21, 2014

Three Polarities to be Eschewed

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The truth is not always in the middle, and I say this even though, as an Anglican Christian, I hold a preferential option for the via medi...
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Sunday, September 07, 2014

Why I'm Not Going to Taiwan

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Every March and every September, the bishops of the Episcopal Church (virtually all the active ones, and a few of the retired ones, at any r...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

2014 Spring House of Bishops, Day 5

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Same morning pattern as that to which we have become accustomed. The retreat meditation was delivered by John Howard, Bishop of Florida. (Th...
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Monday, March 24, 2014

2014 Spring House of Bishops, Day 4

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Usual morning "retreat" routine. Following Morning Prayer, today's meditation was delivered by my good friend Bill Love, Bisho...
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Sunday, March 23, 2014

2014 Spring House of Bishops, Day 3

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Not a lot to report today. We observed the principle of sabbath rest, so the only plenary gathering scheduled was the 10am Eucharist. I got ...
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Saturday, March 22, 2014

2014 Spring House of Bishops, Day 2

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Three years ago, at my first meeting of the House of Bishops, the schedule was relentless, most of the activity consisting of lectures and s...
Friday, March 21, 2014

2014 Spring House of Bishops, Day 1

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Breakfast at 8:00. Morning Prayer at 9:00, with a retreat meditation delivered by Bishop Lloyd Allen (Honduras). Free time in silence (w...
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Thursday, February 13, 2014

On the Making and Unmaking of Saints

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For several years, the Episcopal Church--through the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music at the behest of the General Convention at the...
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Monday, February 10, 2014

On Bishops Being Bishops (Presiding & Otherwise)

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As the Episcopal Church lumbers on toward the next General Convention in the summer of 2015, the atmosphere is thick with confusion and ques...
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Saturday, January 25, 2014

A Hermeneutic of Ecumenism

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Today is the feast of the Conversion of St Paul (I will get to celebrate it again tomorrow at St Paul's Cathedral in Springfield, wher...
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Friday, January 24, 2014

Lord Jesus

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I am an unrepentant kyrialist. Yes, that’s pretty much a made-up word. It is not therefore insignificant, however. Quite the opposite...
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Saturday, January 18, 2014

Oh, Hell ...

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We all have our subscription settings to the Information Marketplace fine-tuned differently, so your experience may not be like mine. But ...
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Friday, October 04, 2013

Smuggling the Gospel: Lectio Divina on II Kings 19

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The Assyrian king Sennacherib is besieging Jerusalem. He boasts of all the kingdoms he has laid waste to; where are their gods, whom they tr...
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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

House of Bishops Day 6 (Fall 2013)

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Morning Prayer: Pretty straight BCP Rite 2, but with Pascha nostrum as the single canticle set to a chant tune with some fairly funky harmo...
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House of Bishops Day 5 (Fall 2013)

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After Morning Prayer at our tables (an amalgam of BCP and Enriching Our Worship-- sung guitar-accompanied Venite , said Psalm, Office Hymn ...
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Monday, September 23, 2013

House of Bishops Day 4 (Fall 2013)

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I snapped this photo this morning in the parish hall at the church of St Joseph of Arimathea in Hendersonville (TN), where it was my priv...
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