Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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David Ould
And, so to Ananais and Sapphira. Their crime, it seems, is more than simply withholding money. It is their hearts that they are holding back for they stand in such stark contrast to the wholehearted believers of the end of chapter 4. They talk the talk but they do not walk the walk. Their lives are lies, exposed in how they handle their money but extending far, far beyond that.
Sunday, August 17 • 
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9Jackie Bruchi
Stand Firm has shown over the years that in the midst of those wearing collars are druids, witches and muslims. Not once have we seen the leadership stand up and exclaim shock and dismay (except that we would dare bring it to the attention of the world.) The only action we have seen was from Bishop Wolf who inhibited Ann Holmes Redding for a year (which year would have been up in July). Instead we were met with condemnation by those who should have rejoiced at being alerted to wolves among the sheep. If, in fact, as so many TEC bishops whined about proclaimed at Lambeth that it is a victim of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy to paint TEC as non-orthodox, why are they only burning up the presses with inhibitions and depositions of the Reasserters? Why wouldn't a published statement such as this be evidence enough to remove the collar from Mr. Butcher unless and until he can embrace the faith once delivered.
Saturday, August 16 • 40
40David Ould
On 9 August orthodox Anglicans should look to Singapore and Lee Kuan Yew and recognise when to reluctantly but sensibly call it a day.
Saturday, August 9 • 30
30Sarah Hey
I personally am indifferent to whether Primates attend the meeting or not and believe that, as with Lambeth attendance, it is not a moral duty to either attend or not attend. I am indifferent to whether Primates attend because it will not matter one way or the other, as the only Instrument of Unity with any power, the Archbishop of Canterbury, will merely "sum up" for whatever he wishes to do anyway, much like he did with the Lambeth Meeting itself by articulating "the agenda" of the incoherent and non-authoritative "Reflections Document" in his closing plenary and his final press conference. If two Primates show, or 15, or 28, it does not really matter as far as whatever eventually happens in the Anglican Communion.
Friday, August 8 • 47
47Matt Kennedy
Susan Russell and others on the left interpret the outcome of Lambeth 2008 as a step back from the Resolution 1.10 line. I am sympathetic to their reading. Unenforced resolutions eventually become meaningless. When unenforced resolutions are officially revisited and glossed with nuanced and ambiguous interpretations like those found in the Indaba reflections, the ABC's second Presidential Address, and his final press conference, there is plenty of warrant for acting as if they do not bind.
Thursday, August 7 • 17
17Sarah Hey
In the past few years, I've occasionally been able to travel to other dioceses to help them form such networked organizations. If you are interested in forming an organization of traditional lay Episcopalians, and you'd like a visit and some help, please email me using our private message function at this blog. I can't promise anything, but I can give it a shot, as I've done with a few other places. Please tell me a little about your situation, as well as your diocese.
Tuesday, August 5 • 55
55Sarah Hey
I think one of the best ways to renew any organization is to pick the leaders first -- and work intensively with them through a wide variety of needs and growth areas. I believe that most believers need to have a mentor, and need to mentor others. It's the nature of the Christian community. So in this sense, asking God to lead you to a few people in your parish whom you might mentor is a step towards the renewal of a parish.
Tuesday, August 5 • 49
49Greg Griffith
If you are new to this site and to this debate, I suspect you are overwhelmed at what's happening in your church, and overwhelmed by the amount of information there is (just on this site, and we're one of many) to digest. We've been at this for years, and a lot has happened and been documented. My hope is that you're primed for a fight, because that's what we're in, and that's what you need to resign yourself to if you want to do anything other than leave, or be assimilated into the Episcopal Church's Great Gay Borg.
Monday, August 4 • 83
83David Ould
However, in [trusting and following God] we are not taking part in a grand ‘unfinished story’ in the same way that Israel was before Christ. Rather, we are proclaiming and living out the consequences of God’s finished story in Jesus Christ, and we await his return when the implications of what he has done will be obvious to all. In terms of the ‘story’ of the Bible, the New Testament does not merely continue the Old Testament; it completes it.
In the end, despite a promising start, Wright’s vision of the Bible’s authority is too open-ended, too ambiguous, and too intertwined with the vagaries of whatever we might want to identify as ‘the church’ on earth or ‘the people of God’ to be of proper help.
In the end, despite a promising start, Wright’s vision of the Bible’s authority is too open-ended, too ambiguous, and too intertwined with the vagaries of whatever we might want to identify as ‘the church’ on earth or ‘the people of God’ to be of proper help.
Sunday, August 3 • 66
66Matt Kennedy
Today has been incredibly brutal. There are a number of press conference live-blogs still to be corrected and posted. this is the first half of my blog from the ABC's press conference this afternoon. My mind is too hazy and my fingers too tired to do any more this evening. I fly home tomorrow early, so I'll have to post the second half from an airport somewhere. Sorry.
Sunday, August 3 • 16
16Sarah Hey
Kendall Harmon uses the metaphor of judgement to talk about a very similar theme. No matter what, he has stated, Anglicans who are Anglicans will either go to Babylon or stay in Jerusalem -- and neither place is all that pleasant, and comfortable. But in both places, Anglicans must do their duty -- they must do seemingly mundane things like build their families, bless the place they are in, and plant olive trees, even in the midst of judgement. Of the Old Testament books I have preferred the book of Nehemiah. One enters the rubble of the landscape, surrounded by enemies and angry fellow citizens and very loud naysayers, and one sets about to rebuilding walls of the pulverized city with a sword in one hand and a trowel in another.
Sunday, August 3 • 97
97Sarah Hey
Sunday, August 3 • 39
39Matt Kennedy
Sunday, August 3 • 6
6Sarah Hey
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