• Episcopal - Good and Joyful Things

    Doubly honored

    I was following a link from Scott Gunn’s Inclusive Church blog, and was completely gobsmacked by what I saw at Mad Priest’s place: Of course, I could be wrong… Welcome newly discovered HEROES OF THE BLOGOSPHERE. (Personally, I blame bad parenting – spare the rod and spoil the child) BAREFOOT AND LAUGHING BLOGULA RASA DREAMING IN THE DEEP SOUTH EPISCOCHICK FRANIAM HERE I SIT HOPE’S MAMA INCLUSIVECHURCH BLOG ON TRANSMIGRATION WHAT CAME FIRST, THE MUSIC OR THE MISERY? Heavens to Murgatroyd – I’d noticed with blushing pleasure that the Mad Priest had honored this blog with a spot on his…

  • Episcopal - Good and Joyful Things - Religion

    House of Bishops Discussion

    The Lead Resolution B033 of the 2006 General Convention The House of Bishops concurs with Resolution EC011 of the Executive Council. This Resolution commends the Report of the Communion Sub-Group of the Joint Standing Committee of the Anglican Consultative Council and the Primates of the Anglican Communion as an accurate evaluation of Resolution B033 of the 2006 General Convention, calling upon bishops with jurisdiction and Standing Committees “to exercise restraint by not consenting to the consecration of any candidate to the episcopate whose manner of life presents a challenge to the wider church and will lead to further strains on…

  • Hot Off The Presses - Mini-Posts

    Prayers for SA Minister of Health…

    iafrica.com | news | sa news Church gathers to pray for Manto Tshabalala-Msimang Apparently she is suffering from health problems and also the responsibilities of her office weigh heavily on her, for when there are no blankets, she is blamed. Some time ago, she was criticized for holding some unusual views about public health and AIDS in South Africa…

  • All Things Interesting - Health And Fitness

    Fiftysomething!

    Monday, September 24th was the 50th anniversary of my debut on this planet. I started this post but ran out of time to finish it on “the day,” and we’ve been busy every day since then. Things are starting to slow down again as we near the end of our stay. It’s really the point of this trip, but when I first started talking about it, Mom was still with us, and I visualized the whole thing with “hope Mom is feeling up to air travel then” as she’d had some problems following her last few trips. So she’s not…

  • Politics, Schmolitics

    Bush on education: ‘childrens do learn’

    The Swamp: Cleaning up after Bush: It was ‘childrens do learn’ Yes, he said it. The original transcript “cleaned up” after Bush’s grammatical error – a stenographer silently corrected the gaffe. Then the howls of protest forced the White House to say that the “correction” was done in error, and the errant “s” would go back in the official transcript. Meanwhile, Republicans in Congress are trying to hold up health care for uninsured childrens, while Bush will be battling for billion$ to fund both wars.  Apparently, even though childrens do get sick, they must first be protect from the terrorist.…

  • Episcopal - Mini-Posts

    +Drexel Supportive…

    Bishop Drexel Gomez (a conservative Anglican) is supportive of Nassau woman’s ordination, and chides his flock: The Nassau Guardian – www.thenassauguardian.com But these persons who are objecting are just a small minority of persons and that has not prevented the life of the church,” he said.