Some notes from around the internet/blogosphere on the special convention for San Joaquin, starting with the presiding bishop: “We stand with you in the firm and constant hope that this body will grow and flourish and bless the central valley of California in ways you have not yet dreamed of. And we will celebrate with you as that becomes reality.”
The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland today elected the Rev. Canon Eugene Taylor Sutton, canon pastor at the Washington National Cathedral, to be its 14th bishop
Author Jan Karon made an appearance at the Virginia Festival of the Book, whose lineup reads like a SXSW for English majors. The sold-out “high tea” with Karon happened Thursday afternoon in Charlottesville, VA.
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Amid mixed feelings about his leadership, the Very Rev. Robert Taylor resigned as dean of St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle yesterday. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s blogstaff posted the story under the category “Seattle politics,” noting details such as a generous severance package and controversy over Taylor’s 9-year tenure in leadership at the cathedral, particularly in the past year.
Somehow, liturgy is condemned to be out of date, old, and of a mythic past. Out of this comes a sense of transcendence, a mystical, ineffable, sense of floating gift, by which we can come together more and have a new attitude in one’s step and underline the ethical way we should reach out to one another. One of the difficulties in Anglicanism today is that for many this simply is not good enough.
No season of the Christian year speaks to the soul as does the Easter Tide. It is the beautiful season of the year, when the winter is ended and all things bud forth; the graves and sleeping-places of the dust are broken up and the beauty of the floral kingdom comes back to us in the fresh glory of living green and painted leaves and with the perfume of the incense-breathing gardens of spring.