In the early 1980's, I visited Hong Kong while on the way back from the third and last in a series of business trips to China. While reading the South China Morning Post, I noted that an Anglican church was conducting a street service at the Star Ferry terminal on the Kowloon side. I was …
A Matter of Priority, and a Challenge to Eastern Orthodoxy
I recently got myself into a debate I never thought I would: the veneration of icons. It seems that Abu Daoud got himself into a dispute with one JMW over the veneration/worhsip of icons. So he threw it out to the rest of us for discussion. One of Abu Daoud's respondents wondered why a dialogue …
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Why People Shouldn’t Become Orthodox
Every now and then, I get inquires (especially from Anglicans) on whether they should become Orthodox. My usual response is to refer them to this, the Life of the Archpriest Avvakum by Himself. I've missed it on this one: the Mystificator from Romania has 275 reasons why one shouldn't become Orthodox. The remaining time, amounting …
The AMiA Prayer Book: Maybe I Shouldn’t Have Said That
Sometimes, as a blogger, you come up with what you think is a great idea only to have doubts about it later. Consider this posting: One thing that the various groups, such as CANA, AMiA, and the like, could be working on is a new prayer book for themselves. We can hear the sigh of …
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Rowan Williams: Old Earth Creationists Still Hung Out to Dry
It seems that the Archbishop of Canterbury has a talent for leaving people who just might help solve problems hanging out to dry, as he blithely ignores the existence of "old earth creationism" in the debate over evolution: Dr Rowan Williams, said "Neo Darwinism and Creationist science deserve each other. Creationism is a version of …
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The Letter I’d Write if I Were an Anglican Primate
Lisa Severine Noland's article about the perils of going to Lambeth this summer has galvanised me to draft the letter I'd write if I were an Anglican primate in a predominantly "reasserter" province: Esteemed ++Rowan Williams! It is with the deepest regret that I find myself compelled to write this letter to you. At this …
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Mike McManus and Successful Marriages
One frequent contributor to Virtue Online is Mike McManus, whose best known efforts are at saving marriages. He was featured on the 7 March 2008 700 Club, and that segment is this week's (delayed) podcast.
Honor Moore: My Father, the Bishop, was gay. So what’s the big deal?
Honor Moore's article in the New Yorker about her father, the Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, Episcopal Bishop of New York, and the discovery that he was homosexual, has generated quite a buzz in Anglican/Episcopal blogs and websites (such as this and this.) But in reading the piece, it's hard for me to understand what the …
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Prince Harry Doesn’t Like England. Join the Club.
Prince Harry doesn't care much for the centrepiece of his realm: But Harry, third in line to the British crown, didn't seem overly happy with his homeland's press, who have given generous coverage in recent years to his partying escapades in the nightclubs of London and elsewhere. "I don't want to sit around in Windsor," …
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Ignatius, the Anglicans and the Bishops
Back in the fall, in response to my post St. Jerome's Idea of Bishops and Presbyters, Abu Daoud asked me the following: I am wondering how you square Jerome's idea with the much earlier statements by Ignatius of Antioch regarding the centrality of the bishop in the ministry of the church (ie, do nothing without …
Positive Infinity 