This from Anglican Mainstream, showing that ecclesiastical bureaucracies are frequently part of the problem and not the solution: So, the following Tuesday, the Women of Purpose met for a fund-raising. From within their Fellowship they raised 2.6 million shillings. When they approached one of the clergy at All Saints’ Cathedral, Kampala, about making an appeal …
Katharine Jefferts Schori Needs to Take the Money and Run
In a recent address on this subject, TEC Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori reveals the biggest problem in her position on the property: I will continue to uphold two basic principles in the work some of us face in dealing with former Episcopalians who claim rights to church property or assets. Our participation in God's …
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To Leave TEC, or Not to Leave TEC: That Is the Question StandFirm Doesn’t Want in its Threads
Sarah Hey lays the law down: Everyone who has been commenting any length of time here is well aware that we don't allow comments exhorting people to leave TEC or stay in TEC, nor do we allow comments castigating either decision... But for ourselves, we are so determined to have a blog with a larger …
D025: The Tragedy and the Gift
The Episcopal Church House of Bishop's passage of Resolution D025--affirming gay and lesbian people in all parts of the life of the church, including all levels of ministry--is both a tragedy and a gift, depending on how you look at it. As it represents the final repudiation of the Christian sexual ethic, it's a tragedy. …
The Church Where Getting a Straight Answer is Next to Impossible
Many of you wonder why I, now holed up in a Pentecostal church, take so much interest in the Anglican/Episcopal world. Much of that answer is here, but there's the opposite question: with that interest, why did you leave the Episcopal Church to start with? One lesson from teaching is that a worked example is …
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“Schism is not a Christian act.” Tell That to Henry VIII.
Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori fires a shot across the bow at the Church of England (HT bb): She urged Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams to remember the "pain of many Episcopalians in several places of being shut out of their traditional worship spaces, and the broken relationships, the damaged relationships between people who …
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Palm Beach: Around the Island
Palm Beach Day School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSnZ5tjDlLY Above: the opening ceremony during Field Day at Palm Beach Day School, 20 April 1968. For intramural competition the school was divided into two teams, the "Pelicans" (blue uniforms) and "Flamingoes" (yellow uniforms.) Both my brother and I were in the latter. (View the video in QuickTime/iTunes format.) Right: A …
Episcoplaians, Katherine Jefferts Schori, and Evangelicals: The War is Now Declared
Gary l'Hommedieu has it right, regarding TEC PB Katherine Jefferts-Schori's declaration that individual salvation is heretical: This week the Presiding Bishop declared holy war on heresy, and that's news. Which heresy? "That we can be saved as individuals, that any of us alone can be in right relationship with God." This heresy must be stamped …
A State of Being
Helene Tuchbreiter Portrait by Antonio Sereix Photo Reproduction by John Haynesworth Helene Tuchbreiter was one of Palm Beach's most prominent socialites in her time. She made an impact both on the social scene and on the people immediately around her. My own recollection of her, however, was more prosaic: she was one of my mother's …
Acolyte Order of St. Peter
We present the guide for the Acolyte Order of St. Peter at Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church for three reasons: To give a historical view of acolytes in Episcopal churches in the era it was written (around 1968.) To help Anglican churches today in training their acolytes. To show how the "rich and famous" (or infamous) served …
Positive Infinity 