Religion is becoming increasingly visible in virtual environments such as Second Life, according to the Washington Post. And users of the popular “sim” world are creating an Anglican Cathedral there and building a community for Anglicans and Episcopalians around the world.
Here’s the real problem with American liberalism: there is no such thing. What we call American liberalism is a Frankenstein’s monster of incongruous parts – a fat, affluent, overeducated New York/Washington head crudely screwed onto the withering corpse of the vanishing middle-American manufacturing class.
Before we move into more reflective vein, here is a quick rundown of Saturday morning news developments, the most interesting of which is that Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori continues to attract the attention of the largest newspaper in whatever media market she visits.
That which we more strictly call piety, or the love of God, and which is an essential part of a right temper, some may perhaps imagine no way connected with benevolence: yet surely they must be connected, if there be indeed in being an object infinitely good.
There’s a bullet that we’ve somehow managed to dodge for lo these many years as a family. But this week it hit. We got the word from our all-star soccer team coach that a big tournament game had been scheduled on Sunday morning at 8 a.m.
The Diocese of South Carolina, which elected Mark Lawrence to be there next bishop, but failed to receive the needed number of consents to that election is planning to hold a new election with Mark as the only candidate…
In addition to calling for the Primate’s request to the House of Bishops to be rejected, Executive Council warned the dioceses that have changed their constitutions and by-laws to weaken their ascession to the Episcopal Church that they have overstepped their bounds.
Six retired Canadian Archbishops have called on the Anglican Church of Canada to take action in its summer synod which would allow Anglicans to perform blessing liturgies for same-sex couples.
God gives Himself mainly along two channels: through the soul’s daily life and circumstances and through its prayer. In both that soul must always be ready for Him; wide open to receive Him, and willing to accept and absorb without fastidiousness that which is given, however distasteful and unsuitable it may seem.
What is going on in the Communion this week? Are we seeing the beginning moves of an African-based strategy to respond to the stresses between Anglican provinces?