Go read “Prayer Book as Our Regula” Right Now.

Seriously, if you haven’t read Christopher’s post called “The Prayer Book as Our Regula, you really should. It is a fantastic piece.
Excerpty!
In fact, the Prayer Book is a distinctive enfleshment of a moderate, generous, gentle, common, and above all else, awed way of being together in the world that insists that we are homo [...]

Oh, we’ve all heard it before…

…someone says, “I’m not worth it, don’t bother praying for me.”
My response is usually, “Whoops. Too late.”

Episcopal Church to Dedicate Bike Shrine

As reported by BikePortland.org, since I can’t find a blessed thing about it on the St. Stephen’s page.
Here’s the thing– we have a LOT of people who ride bikes in Portland, and unfortunately we have a LOT of people who have been injured and killed while riding bikes in Portland. My favorite cafe waitress [...]

Thinking Ahead

I wonder if anywhere sells a lapel pin that says something like, “I am observing Advent”
Just wondering out loud.

The Episcopal Church – Who Are We?

“A covert group of Christ-like ninjas” of course!
HT to Fr. Mark Harris.

Where have I been?

Oh, you know, here and there.

Shhh, be vewwy, vewwy quiet

It’ll probably be quiet around here until the end of September. I’m doing a lot of working and a lot of traveling (Three different time zones in two weeks! WOO!)
And honestly? I’m really sick unto death of everyone all “Oooh! Anglican Covenant! It’s coming! It’s not coming! Two-tracks, it’s coming and going!” and the [...]

Anyone ever taken a CALL class?

That is, a Center for Anglican Learning and Leadership class? They’re apparently available online from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, and the price is pretty reasonable. I know because I’ve been pricing out how much it would cost to take some classes on the Scriptures at local colleges, and just to audit a [...]

Today’s Gospel Message

BoingBoing had this video up with the caption “Johnny Lee Clary explains how Reverend Wade Watts [...] engag[ed] in some first-rate psy-ops.”
What Doctrow calls psy-ops, we call the Gospel (with a healthy dose of fool-for-Christ).

You know, I’ve been having conversations with a beloved friend who’s a premillenialist. My friend keeps [...]

The Fatty Preaches.

Everyone and their auntie has an opinion about the photo of a size 10/12 model’s belly that appeared on page 194 of this month’s Glamour.
*yawn* Wake me when it’s over.
*snore, snort, whuzzay?*
What do you mean, “What do I think?” I think I’m a 5′4″, 300lb woman who’s female but not feminine and wouldn’t buy a [...]