Monday, November 23, 2009

The Episcopal Church Welcomes You

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The shield is cockeyed, which is a relatively recent development, but otherwise it hasn’t changed in decades. I was familiar with it long ...
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Looking a Gift Horse in the Mouth

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For a number of reasons which I am not going to rehearse here (but which are, I hope, abundantly clear if you know me at all, or care to sur...
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Thursday, November 05, 2009

Adventures in Ecclesiology, Part III: The Visibility of the Church

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From time to time I run across a book, or a TV “infomercial, suggesting that the health of one particular organ or organ system within the h...
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Saturday, October 31, 2009

Loving the Saints

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This essay was written for, and now appears in, the November 1 issue of The Living Church . I don’t know precisely where “All Saints” ranks ...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009

On the "Patrimony" of Anglicanism

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Brother Stephen is a (Roman Catholic) Trappist monk who is a former Anglican (of the Anglo-Catholic stripe). I posted this link to my Faceb...
Monday, October 26, 2009

Adventures in Ecclesiology, Part II: The Priority of the Church

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Systematic Theology is the discipline of taking that which Christians believe and teach (or, in any case, that which any given systematic th...
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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Check Out My Parish's Redesigned Website

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We've just gone live with St Anne's Website 3.0 (it now appears among my links on the sidebar). I can't take any credit for it;...
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Tuesday, October 20, 2009

A New Bridge Across the Tiber?

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I feel almost obligated to say something about a “breaking” Anglican story, if for no other reason than that it has shown up on the CNN cra...
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Monday, October 19, 2009

Adventures in Ecclesiology (Part I): Prospectus

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This is the first of what I anticipate will be a four-part series on how we think theologically about the Church. As all but the newest read...
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Wednesday, October 14, 2009

A Shamanic Moment

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One of the simultaneously bitterest and sweetest responsibilities of a priest is to bury the dead. I did that, once again, this morning, and...
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Thursday, October 08, 2009

A Slight Momentary Affliction

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UPDATE: Thanks to an energetic friend, the link in my "links" sections now leads to a .pdf on GoogleDocs, rather than the blog, si...
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Wednesday, October 07, 2009

De Trinitate

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Tonight's regular Wednesday Eucharist at St Anne's was a votive Mass "Of the Holy Trinity." I gave something resembling th...
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Friday, October 02, 2009

More Dispatches from the Hymnal 1940

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Today, in my regularly-scheduled prayer time (yes, I know that sounds a little weird) at the console of the mighty Rodgers, I held a convers...
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Thursday, October 01, 2009

An Annoyed Rant...

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...against the Revised Common Lectionary. I'm trying to be a good sport about this. I really am. I was opposed to its adoption, single-h...
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Keep Moving ... Nothing to See Here

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Anglican cyberspace is abuzz this morning with the release of a letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury to Central Florida Bishop John How...
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Monday, September 28, 2009

A Hymn Geek's Version of Oldies

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The Hymnal 1940, which was in the pew racks of Episcopal churches and chapels and cathedrals from 1943 until 1985 (and in some places, long...
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Sunday, September 20, 2009

Making Friends with the Imprecatory Psalms

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It is part of my Rule of Life to pray the Daily Office according to the form prescribed in the Book of Common Prayer (1979). Tuesday through...
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