June 28, 2013

Irrelevance

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On the PBS News Hour last night there was a short discussion between Eric Schneiderman (pro marriage equality) and Vicky Hartzler, a republ...
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June 26, 2013

The Sorrowful

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Well, as the old saying goes, you can't please everybody. The Roman Conference of Bishops has issued a rather petty but also profoundly ...
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And Resolution

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In my last post I mentioned the anticipation and angst as the Supreme Court seemed to be taking its own sweet time in announcing decisions ...
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June 21, 2013

Dred Anticipation

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The Supreme Court of the United States is due to issue its decisions in two important cases that will have major impact on the lives of gay ...
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June 19, 2013

Why Same-Sex Marriage?

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Columnist Andrew Brown notes that +Rowan Williams has opined “I am not wholly clear to what problem same-sex marriage is the answer.” Wel...
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June 17, 2013

Lords Help Us

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Listening to the House of Lords debate on the Marriage Bill is not the way I'd hoped to spend my morning. It is instructive to see the e...

Thought for 06.17.12

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How wonderful to be reminded once again at Morning Prayer today that her husband thought himself of more value to Hannah  “than ten sons.” ...
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June 15, 2013

Weeping Ang[e]l(ican)s

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In the recent General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church questions were raised* concerning the Anglican Covenant and the Primatial Morat...
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June 14, 2013

Mystic on the Water

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O God, Origin, Sustainer, and End of all your creatures: Grant that your Church, taught by your servant Evelyn Underhill, guarded evermore...
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June 9, 2013

Syrian Singer

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Pour out on us, O Lord, that same Spirit by which your deacon Ephrem rejoiced to proclaim in sacred song the mysteries of faith; and so gl...
June 4, 2013

Changed Perspective

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The House of Lords, after a long and tedious debate, and a long call for Division in a spectacularly inefficient manner, has soundly defeate...
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June 3, 2013

Not What They Expected

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When the Conclave elected Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli to the Chair of Peter in 1958, many thought the elderly cardinal would be a benign plac...
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Cantuar Opines, World Moves On

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The Archbishop of Canterbury has addressed his fellow Lords in opposition to the Marriage Bill now before them. He critiques...
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May 29, 2013

Young Frenchwoman

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Holy God, whose power is made perfect in weakness: we honor you for the calling of Jeanne d’Arc, who, though young, rose up in valor to be...
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May 24, 2013

Old Englishman

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On the feast of the Venerable Bede, I'm reminded of my undergraduate course in Anglo-Saxon, which my inimitable (and favorite) profess...
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Go West!

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Lord God, in your providence Jackson Kemper was chosen first missionary bishop in this land, and by his arduous labor and travel congregat...
May 22, 2013

Star-gazers

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As the heavens declare your glory, O God, and the firmament shows your handiwork, we bless your Name for the gifts of knowledge and insigh...
May 16, 2013

Apostle to the Sioux

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Wakantanka, Holy God, you called your servant William Hobart Hare to bear witness to you throughout the vast reaches of the Niobrara Terri...
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Central or Usual?

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The leaders of the Roman Church in England have issued another alert to legislators about the possible dangers of marriage equality. They w...
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May 13, 2013

Confusion in California

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A California court has rendered a decision in the remaining property dispute concerning congregations (or parts thereof) who had chosen to d...
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