Via Salt: a good laugh from The Borowitz Report .com, which report that an openly Episcopal man has joined the Village People. Open schism is possible, although the Construction Guy urged “tolerance and understanding” in a recent statement. Heh. Look for an Anglican chant version of “YMCA” soon. In the meantime, here is the highway report. As it happens, we did a bit of Anglican chant today for our main service – it was the celebration of All Saints’ Day, which was last Monday. We did a version of the Beatitudes set to music by Richard Proulx. By coincidence, my…
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Via Salt: a good laugh from The Borowitz Report .com, which report that an openly Episcopal man has joined the Village People. Open schism is possible, although the Construction Guy urged “tolerance and understanding” in a recent statement. Heh. Look for an Anglican chant version of “YMCA” soon. In the meantime, here is the highway report. As it happens, we did a bit of Anglican chant today for our main service – it was the celebration of All Saints’ Day, which was last Monday. We did a version of the Beatitudes set to music by Richard Proulx. By coincidence, my…
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A sampling on this topic: Clack: Georgians Overwhelmingly Approve Of Discrimination ***DDtB: The Morning After The Night Before Josh Claybourn’s Domain | Election 2004: The Unspoken Undercurrent Via ***DDtB, – a cogent argument that it’s all about the morals. And also it’s all about the simplicity, too. Make the message simple, effective, and scary, and you will do well in this country politically. You’ve got two politico-cultural moeities in this country – faith-based and reality-based – and you’ve got to make your message easy for the former to believe, and difficult for the latter to disprove. Which, of course, this…
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Keyes was also asked about another comment he made last week critical of gay marriage in which he declared: “Where procreation is in principle impossible, marriage is irrelevant.” Keyes said the logic of that statement would not preclude elderly people past child-bearing age from getting married. Overshare Alert! Well, in my case “procreation in principle is impossible,” because reproduction has been permanently circumvented. However, this doesn’t stop us from fooling around anyway. Yay! Therefore, I’m childfree, and Alan Keyes would think I’m a monster, with an irrelevant marriage. Apparently, he would have people who are unable or unwilling to have…
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Bishop Gene Robinson: “I will not resign.”Well, good on you. I pray that we may all be one on this issue (oh, don’t look so shocked, it’s in the Prayer Book and everything). It’s interesting how much more conservative the African bishops are, and how naive we liberal Americans were for thinking that everyone else in the Anglican world would be okay with a concept that some of us have struggled to become okay with ourselves. In microcosm, some people still struggle at the local level, but I have hopes that the strugglers can come to terms with their feelings…
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Less than a week before the concert at Holy Moly. I’m doing some more updating of the church website to add this image, which I adapted from Synergy‘s website. I hope that’s going to be okay with Chris and the rest of the musicians; I needed a clean image that reproduced well, and most of the other ones were either too dark, or too “busy” to translate to greyscale well. Also, many of them had text that was white on black, so again kind of hard to reproduce (in addition to using a ton of toner). This one got run…
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A creative and uniquely New York solution for dealing with annoying proselytizers on public transportation: Me: “Excuse me, but do you mind keeping your voice down, I am trying to read.” Preacher Lady: (screams) “I got to testify.” Preacher lady hitches up her skirts and tells me that I am going to hell for interrupting you-know-who’s word. Two or three OTHER Christian ladies on the train start shouting at me and discussing my prospects as the Devil’s prison bitch. The last straw was a 50 something red faced man in a suit slamming his Bible towards my face. There was…
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The Diocese of Colorado has issued their Task Force report on issues relating to gay clergy and same-gender blessings. ***Dave has some thoughts on the matter. Closer to home, this same issue done got raised in Sunday’s sermon. It was only Father Ted’s third sermon of his incumbency, and already hackles were raised and worms uncanned. Tonight there was a Bishop’s Committee meeting, and the issue got added to the agenda for discussion. I got there at… 6:40 (ran late as usual after work). I got out of there at… 8:50. Stopped off for Thai takeout on my way home.…
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The Diocese of Colorado has issued their Task Force report on issues relating to gay clergy and same-gender blessings. ***Dave has some thoughts on the matter. Closer to home, this same issue done got raised in Sunday’s sermon. It was only Father Ted’s third sermon of his incumbency, and already hackles were raised and worms uncanned. Tonight there was a Bishop’s Committee meeting, and the issue got added to the agenda for discussion. I got there at… 6:40 (ran late as usual after work). I got out of there at… 8:50. Stopped off for Thai takeout on my way home.…
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Funnies Stuff Bucky Katt is at it again: he proposes to make dinner for Rob and Satchel. He says he shall require a plump rat, a sprig of catnip, and a throw rug. Cotton. I think I know what the throw rug is for. Food Stuff We didn’t order a pizza tonight, we marinated some salmon in a ponzu-like concoction that consisted of soysauce, orange juice, rice vinegar, sesame oil, honey, toasted sesame seeds, ground multi-colored pepper, and garlic. This time, there was a little wasabi in there. Last time, I grated some orange zest in there. Either way, it…