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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Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Come Fly With Me …

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… to the Holy Land, about 50 weeks from now. Bishop Ed Little is leading a pilgrimage to Israel next year, departing February 21 and r...

Something Old, Something New

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Today is the lesser feast of John & Charles Wesley, Priests. They are claimed by Methodism as founders, though they both died as presbyt...
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Tuesday, March 02, 2010

A Lenten Thought

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In my cycle of reading, it's time for some fiction. So I picked up a volume that's been sitting on my shelves for a number of years ...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Making Friends with the Mother of God

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(Now appearing on my parish website, and soon to be in the March newsletter.) In the stream of Christianity where I first learned to “swim” ...
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Saturday, February 20, 2010

For Local Consumption

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My blogging is, among other things, a calling. It is part of the larger package that goes with a vocation to the priesthood. According to th...
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Friday, February 19, 2010

Ashes to Go?

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  The photo above is of the Rev. Lane Hensely, rector of the Church of the Transfiguration in Palos Park, Illinois (a southwest suburb of ...
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Monday, February 15, 2010

Some Pertinent Historical Analysis

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I am pleased to see that the Anglican Communion Institute has published what I found to be one of the more insightful papers that were pres...
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Friday, February 12, 2010

On Deep-Toned Organ Blasts (etc.)

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In search of a Friday-afternoon spiritual pick-me-up (and a little nostalgia, perhaps), I am sometimes wont to sit down at the organ console...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

More to Chew Over

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So ... just a couple of days after proclaiming that the habitually troubled Anglican waters are lately ominously placid, we get a couple of ...
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Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Status Check

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It’s not like Anglicanland is no longer interesting, but it does seem a good bit less dramatic than it has been at most times during the yea...
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Monday, February 08, 2010

Trying to Get Back in the Saddle

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This has not been a planned hiatus from blogging. I'm tempted to say something trite like "It just happened," but I think I...
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