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    Fred Barnes: Pundit, Provocateur, and Parishioner

    The Gay Bishops Links Remember the smear campaign conducted against Gene Robinson when he was elected Bishop of New Hampshire: Fred Barnes started it. Remember the huge amount of publicity generated by the  news that two large and conservative parishes were leaving the Episcopal Church? Fred Barnes is a member of one of them, and as a FOX pundit-on-call he commented on it on air. Remember the IRD? Fred Barnes is on the board. Coincidence? I think not.  Via  Jake

  • Episcopal - Theocracy Watch

    Fred Barnes: Pundit, Provocateur, and Parishioner

    The Gay Bishops Links Remember the smear campaign conducted against Gene Robinson when he was elected Bishop of New Hampshire: Fred Barnes started it. Remember the huge amount of publicity generated by the  news that two large and conservative parishes were leaving the Episcopal Church? Fred Barnes is a member of one of them, and as a FOX pundit-on-call he commented on it on air. Remember the IRD? Fred Barnes is on the board. Coincidence? I think not.  Via  Jake

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    Truro and Falls Church Support the Insupportable

    Ex-Gay Watch: Ex-Gay Ministries and the Episcopal Split The main page of Truro Church's website endorses several "ex-gay" ministries, and a class recently taught at their sister parish Falls Church recommends gays seek counseling in order to "go straight." This sort of thing is usually found in your more hairy-eyeball fundamentalist church… 

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    Truro and Falls Church Support the Insupportable

    Ex-Gay Watch: Ex-Gay Ministries and the Episcopal Split The main page of Truro Church's website endorses several "ex-gay" ministries, and a class recently taught at their sister parish Falls Church recommends gays seek counseling in order to "go straight." This sort of thing is usually found in your more hairy-eyeball fundamentalist church… 

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    Schism: It’s Always Something

    At Axis of Episcopal Split, an Anti-Gay Nigerian In case anyone is missing the point about the coming schism in the Episcopal Church, currently it's about homosexuality and biblical inerrancy. 40 years ago, it was about women's ordination and bibilical inerrancy. 20 years before that, it was about civil rights and biblical inerrancy. 100 years before that, it was slavery… and biblical inerrancy. Really, it's always something about biblical inerrancy, but that's not sexy enough. [tags]Episcopal[/tags] 

  • Episcopal - Good and Joyful Things - Uncategorical Weirdness

    Schism: It’s Always Something

    At Axis of Episcopal Split, an Anti-Gay Nigerian In case anyone is missing the point about the coming schism in the Episcopal Church, currently it's about homosexuality and biblical inerrancy. 40 years ago, it was about women's ordination and bibilical inerrancy. 20 years before that, it was about civil rights and biblical inerrancy. 100 years before that, it was slavery… and biblical inerrancy. Really, it's always something about biblical inerrancy, but that's not sexy enough. [tags]Episcopal[/tags] 

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    Little Love In Falls Church For The Falls Church

    Falls Church News-Press – Editorial: No Surprise To Us Locals The Falls Church Episcopal Church is now front page news all over the world for its vote, announced Sunday, to formally defect from the Episcopal denomination. But the 10,500 folks in the tiny City of Falls Church have had the Falls Church Episcopal — with its membership drawn from the wider region almost a third the size of their whole town — not only in their midst, but “in their faces” for much of the last 20 years since the church took a decidedly right-wing turn. Many in the Falls…

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    The Merrie Bishop of Southwark

    Telegraph | News | Curious incident in the night leaves Bishop of Southwark with black eye and sore head The best part: he climbs into the back seat of a complete stranger's car outside a bar near his cathedral, and proceeds to toss toys out into the street. When challenged, he replied "I'm the Bishop of Southwark, it's what I do." His flock have already forgiven him and shrugged it off. A holiday party at the Irish Embassy and a bottle or two of excellent Portuguese wine probably contributed to his confusion. He apparently forgot that he had not been driven…

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    Ed Firmage: Mitt, the Question, and Perceived Authority

    One Utah » Blog Archive » Mitt Romney and The Mormon Question My frustration, like so many who have faced their church of birth, is that in my own mind only, obviously not in reality; but in my own pain, is that if I inhale hugely, the structure trembles, and threatens either to kill me or to collapse; and if I exhale, I blow it away, so much so that it can’t help me, and I really need it’s help; and I can’t help them, since I’ve tried so very hard to do so, and I’ve had success only once,…