Richard Kew's piece After half a lifetime... confirms one of the things I mentioned in my email to the elf, specifically the problem of the seminaries: It was when I started travelling around the church that I got to visit the seminaries that I started to discover how they functioned and what they perceived their …
The Options Run Out at the Episcopal Church
Recently I was contacted by one of the "elves" at Titusonenine, the weblog of the Rev. Canon Dr. Kendall Harmon (which I reviewed back in May.) Same first child of Iluvatar inquired about my idea concerning the Episcopal Church and its Anglican alternatives. My response should not surprise readers of this blog: What I am …
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The Dollar: The Pseudosophisticates Strike Again
I would have commented on the Fed's drop in the interest rates, but the stupidity of a 50 basis points drop both ways (any drop, really, but 25 would at least have been tolerable) was so total that it left me speechless. The subsequent course of the currency bears this out (although sterling is having …
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Yahweh in the Morning: Only You Are God
Emmanuel proclaims the most important thing in Only You Are God. Click here for more information on Yahweh in the Morning.
Dan Rather Files $70 Million Lawsuit Against CBS, Parent Company Viacom
Dan Rather Files $70 Million Lawsuit Against CBS, Parent Company Viacom. My only regret is that I wasn't blogging at the time of the Bush National Guard fiasco. I had plenty of samples of IBM typewriter produced documents, a legacy of my family business.
Rowan Williams and Hermeneutics
The Blogging Parson's piece on Rowan Williams and hermeneutics goes a long way to explain the Archbishop of Canterbury's position--or more precisely his lack of one--in the current Anglican Communion row over homosexuals in the episcopate. But it also is an opportunity to stop and think about one of the most important issues in Christianity--the …
The Saudis Continue Their Dangerous Game
It seems that the Saudi Arabians are continuing their dangerous game by supporting and radicalising Sunni Muslims in Iraq. I noted the danger of their game--advancing their Wahhabi/Salafi style of Islam while trying to contain the blowback of those like Osama bin Laden who don't think the Kingdom is Islamic enough--earlier, and in the context …
Move to empower laity raises church ire
The idea of the Anglican Archdiocese of Sydney (Australia) to empower the laity raises the ire of many churches. It's an issue that has some peculiarly Anglican implications, but it's also interesting for many of the rest of us. The "empowerment" they're proposing is allowing lay people to celebrate the Holy Communion, which traditionally is …
Are We Really Being Persecuted?
The ACLU's Jeremy Gunn and his Evangelical dinner host both show an amazing lack of knowledge of U.S. history in Gunn's piece Accommodating the faithful. The first question was as follows: First, could he identify any country in the world where there is more religious freedom than in the USA? That's not an entirely fair …
When God Pulls the Plug
Jim Workman's piece in The Living Church Foundation on "Turning Away from God" is a good treatment on the subject of institutions and God, and certainly relevant for the present state of the Episcopal Church. But it's also a reminder to everyone that institutionalism isn't God's original plan for his people. God established the proper …
Positive Infinity 