The FundamentaList | The American Prospect has a great round-up this week on Huckabee’s Bapti-costalism, McCain’s uneasy and unholy attempts to get all huggy-bear with the Religious Right, and Rod Parsley’s belief that Satan’s been running things in America since at least the New Deal. Oh, and that tolerance and inclusivity are signs of the Beast. Great.
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The movie reviewer for SFgate.com reviews a recent Easter mass he attended, and this paragraph jumped out at me (yes, because I’m in favor of traditonal liturgy and liberal theology): Mick LaSalle I was talking to a former Episcopal pastor yesterday, and he told me that if he were to do it all over again, he’d go entirely the other way. Bring in organ music. Incense. Choirs. Maybe choirs singing in foreign languages. Things to make people feel that they’ve entered another world — a mysterious place where God dwells. Instead what you get in church these days feels 30…
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PZ Myers got pulled out of the line for a private screening of Expelled, the creationist “documentary” by a rent-a-cop at the producers’ request. But his guest, Richard Dawkins, was not recognized. IM N UR THEETRE, MOCKIN UR DOGMAS! See all 1200+ comments for more enjoyment of the delicious irony at Pharyngula: EXPELLED! As seen various places, most recently OneUtah UPDATE: A video of a post-expulsion discussion between Dawkins and Myers is here. [kml_flashembed movie="http://media.richarddawkins.net/video/2008/RDPZweb.mov" width="426" height="260" wmode="transparent" /]
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I can’t wait to repost this over at the Holy Moly blog… perhaps later in the liturgical season of Soccerates, when attendance drops and we combine two services into one over the summer. I already sent a link to Father Steve, who really loves the upholstered chairs we have at St Nick’s and performs a kind of meditative dance when he lines them up in new and interesting patterns before services. He may get a kick out of this: Fat Liturgical Dancer Now that every church is certain that the only path to success is by having a Mega Church,…
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I can’t wait to repost this over at the Holy Moly blog… perhaps later in the liturgical season of Soccerates, when attendance drops and we combine two services into one over the summer. I already sent a link to Father Steve, who really loves the upholstered chairs we have at St Nick’s and performs a kind of meditative dance when he lines them up in new and interesting patterns before services. He may get a kick out of this: Fat Liturgical Dancer Now that every church is certain that the only path to success is by having a Mega Church,…
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Episcopal Life Online – NEWS Our Bishop ++Katharine has been in Israel living out Holy Week with an ecumenical group, walking the walk and talking the talk. The linked article tells more about the Good Friday pilgrimage along the Via Dolorosa, and how the group negotiated traffic, curious and incurious people on the street, and even an angry person who spat at them. But ++Katharine is also building bridges – there were two photos near the top of the photo that said “Click for more information,” and with this one, the text is: ELO photo/Matthew Davies Following the March 21…
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Episcopal Life Online – NEWS Our Bishop ++Katharine has been in Israel living out Holy Week with an ecumenical group, walking the walk and talking the talk. The linked article tells more about the Good Friday pilgrimage along the Via Dolorosa, and how the group negotiated traffic, curious and incurious people on the street, and even an angry person who spat at them. But ++Katharine is also building bridges – there were two photos near the top of the photo that said “Click for more information,” and with this one, the text is: ELO photo/Matthew Davies Following the March 21…
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Caminante, no hay camino: The Great Vigil of Easter Brother Curtis spoke of the Exsultet:‘This past Easter morning at 4:00 a.m. we were celebrating the Easter Vigil in the monastery where I live. At one moment early on in the liturgy I was stunned, quite unexpectedly. I had a kind of epiphany, something which has very much stayed with me during these past months. The monastery chapel was still in darkness, illuminated only by lighted tapers held by the monks and a large number of people worshipping with us and the great Paschal Candle. In this darkened space tears rolled…
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I wish the disloyal opposition of the Episcopal/Anglican flavor of church would take note: The Lead Marking the annual Palm Sunday celebrations and the start of a week-long visit to the Holy Land, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori preached March 16 at St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem at the invitation of Bishop Suheil Dawani of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem. See? Bishop Katharine was invited. She did not barge in on her host and announce plans for a big “No Gurlz or Gayz” party in his house, over his objections. That’s how it’s done.
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I wish the disloyal opposition of the Episcopal/Anglican flavor of church would take note: The Lead Marking the annual Palm Sunday celebrations and the start of a week-long visit to the Holy Land, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori preached March 16 at St. George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem at the invitation of Bishop Suheil Dawani of the Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem. See? Bishop Katharine was invited. She did not barge in on her host and announce plans for a big “No Gurlz or Gayz” party in his house, over his objections. That’s how it’s done.