• Mini-Posts

    links for 2007-03-01

    This is Zimbabwe » Blog Archive » Shameful silence on Nolbert Kunonga, Anglican Bishop of Harare His Disgrace, the Bishop – it’s guys like this that criticize the “unbiblical” gospel of inclusion in the Episcopal Church. Yeah. Immoral authority. (tags: Anglican schism)

  • Episcopal - Good and Joyful Things

    Almost Live: the Presiding Bishop’s Webcast

    This is long. LONG. Here, why don’t you go get a latte, while I fulminate quietly to myself. I almost missed the live webcast by the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, ++Katherine Jefferts Schori. Stupid time difference. Fortunately, it’s now available as a regular on-demand webcast. There are specific issues I want to hear her address, but I’m a little worried that she’s just going to offer some delicious tidbits of Anglican fudge. And now, the webcast. I’m not really clever or fast enough on the analytical side to comment seriously on it as I watch, but I’ll probably…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    This Is How They Support Our Troops

    Walter Reed patients told to keep quiet – Army Times Soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Medical Hold Unit say they have been told they will wake up at 6 a.m. every morning and have their rooms ready for inspection at 7 a.m., and that they must not speak to the media. “Some soldiers believe this is a form of punishment for the trouble soldiers caused by talking to the media,” one Medical Hold Unit soldier said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. It is unusual for soldiers to have daily inspections after Basic Training. Soldiers say their sergeant…

  • Home Improvement

    Home Sick

    Rats rats RATS. One of the issues that came up in the staff meeting last week was the problem of people who come to work sick. One of my cow-orkers has been down with strep and a cough the last week or so, and since the policy is you can’t be out more than 3 days in a row without having to get a doctor’s note and or go on salary continuation, people tend to come back too soon. Now it seems the annoying sensation at the back of my throat has become something that feels like the beginnings of…

  • Mini-Posts

    links for 2007-02-28

    Whosoever: A Pastoral Statement to Lesbian and Gay Anglicans Some think the “gay schism” started in 2003, but others think it goes back to Lambeth 1998. Check out the list of bishops who signed a statement distancing themselves from the Lambeth statement, and especially that last name on the list. Confused? Me too. (tags: Anglican GayClergy GayRights) Africa and Arkansas (Martyn Minns wasn’t the first) The phony-baloney war in the Anglican communion dates back to at least 1998, when a South Carolinian priest moved to Arkansas and took a new parish under the control of a Rwandan bishop over, yes,…

  • Episcopal - Good and Joyful Things

    Well and Truly Listening: Talk of the Nation

    NPR : The Episcopal Church and the Rift over Homosexuality I'm currently listening to today's Talk of the Nation, recorded earlier today. First guest: Rt. Reverend Catherine Roskam, bishop suffragan of New York. She starts off well by stating clearly that discussing the blessing of same-sex marriage is off the table. She also tries to explain how the Anglican Communion isn't really a top-down, patriarchally governed church.  She stresses that there are more important issues that we ought to be facing in the Communion, such as how women are treated.  Caller: Jean from Utah is an Episcopalian. Feels strongly that…