I must have sent 3 press releases to Manya Brachear, the Trib religion editor. Maybe 4. I had hoped for a sidebar in the Trib on Holy Moly’s big visitation, but no joy in this article. She does an okay job of explaining the complicated background detail.
 I’m planning to go to the shindig tomorrow at House of Hope, but we got a lot of snow last night and frankly I’d rather go x-c skiing rather than spending a lot of time cooped up in someone else’s car trying to get to the South Side. We’re not scheduled to leave from St Nicholas until 11am, which will probably be moved up. We’ll see. I’d like to go, but it depends on other factors.
I don’t know who the specific complaining conservatives are that are mentioned in the lower part of the article. I do know some people that left Holy Innocents a couple of years ago who were fed up with “the gay clergy thing,” and it grieves me that they could no longer feel comfortable in the church they loved for so long. But it also was a relief that such negative, unforgiving people are no longer holding the rest of us at Holy Moly back. We went on, and got over our own grief at closing the building, but have found joy in joining with and becoming St Nick’s. We’re going to show a lot of joy on Sunday when Bishop Katharine comes to us; I can tell from some other news articles I’ve seen that she’s in town and not stuck in Yoo Nork waiting for the weather to clear. It’s nice to see that she’s getting on with business as usual – working with our friends da Loot’rans on ecumenical stuff, and issuing joint statements on peace,  and social justice matters. That’s what we’re all about.
Episcopalians get bishop — chicagotribune.com
Rev. Jeffrey Lee felt the pull of the pulpit even before he was an Episcopalian. His Lutheran pastor urged him from an early age to consider a clerical career.
Lee moved a little closer when he entered a darkened Episcopal sanctuary as a teenager, smelled the incense and heard the poetry of the prayers and knew he belonged in the Episcopal Church.
