Here are a few items I ran across the other day… yeah, I blog about this stuff too much, while I mull over real-world blogfodder.  I am in some ways coming around to the point of view expressed by a Canadian columnist: Sin of hypocrisy I suppose I should be charitable to those who are splitting my church but that’s too much to ask. There isn’t, I daresay, a single one of them who is without sin — many of whom, like divorced persons, are ongoing sinners. These defectors are hypocrites. Their sin is OK but the conduct of gays,…

Archbishop Jensen of Sydney was probably frothing at the mouth when the Sydney Gay Pride rolled by, as he’s a prominent ultra-rejectionist Anglican leader, who’ll be attending the Gang of GAFCON’s pre-Lambeth shindig. This is the meeting where he’ll probably be struggling to hang on to the gavel and run the show, but will have his hands full as Bishop Akinola thinks he’s the rightful Anglican Pope of the Alexandrite Purple Communion NGOGA. BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Sydney gay pride event turns 30 The event has become one of the largest gay pride festivals in the world and generates…

Audio: Confessions: Online Only: The New Yorker This week in the magazine, in an excerpt from her book “The Bishop’s Daughter,” Honor Moore writes about her father, the Episcopal bishop Paul Moore, his faith, and his secret. Here Moore talks about her father’s public service and private life. As noted at Preludium and The Lead. Moore’s voice is warm and calm, except when she talks about her disappointment at not being able to discuss something she had in common with her father; her private life was more open, but he was a man of his generation, and not able to…

The Zimbabwe Independent – The Leading Business Weekly Newspaper I THINK recent developments at the Anglican Cathedral and Greendale parish clearly show the difference between Bishop Nolbert Kunonga and Bishop Sebastian Bakare: one is a thug and the other a true spiritual leader.The public needs to know that the hype about homosexuality is real hypocrisy and opportunism on the part of Kunonga. Before he clutched onto this he had suggested as an agenda item to the provincial secretary that the Province of Central Africa should be dissolved as a sign of respect to Archbishop Bernard Malango who was retiring at…

Wow! this is the second story to get “press” from the releases I was sending out last week… ironically, it’s based on a shorter, earlier version that I had edited down to remove some of the quotes in the hopes that it might be more likely to be run as a shorter item. It was sent to the same publisher, different little suburban paper. Bishop to visit Episcopal church in Elk Grove :: Lifestyles :: PIONEER PRESS :: Elk Grove Times Bishop to visit Episcopal church in Elk Grove January 17, 2008 Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal…

I haven’t blogged the big news in great detail yet, but here it is: Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, head of the Episcopal Church, is coming to visit St Nicholas in Elk Grove Village, my parish. She’ll be wearing her pointy hat and carrying her curly stick and all, and we’re over the moon about it, and also now the panic is setting in. Father Steve wrote a press release, and I’ll be sending various versions of it out to The Media, and area Episcopal and other churches, and probably to area social service agencies and support groups. The gist…

Coverage of the events leading up to the election of the next bishop of Chicago is starting to pick up, The next Episcopal bishop… — chicagotribune.com Next week, the eight finalists for bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago meet their potential flock at a series of gatherings throughout the region: St. Mark’s in Glen Ellyn on Tuesday; Church of the Redeemer in Elgin on Wednesday; Church of the Holy Spirit in Lake Forest on Thursday; Church of the Transfiguration in Palos Park on Oct. 26; St. Edmund’s in Chicago on Oct. 27, and St. Luke’s in Dixon on Oct.…