The Archive
Year: 2008
Bennison cleared of financial impropriety
According to news reports the review committee looking into charges against the bishop of Pennsylvania has found that he did not act inappropriately in using diocesan funds as was charged. There is no ruling yet on the other charges brought against him.
Gomez and GAFCON
Laurie Goodstein reports today that Archbishop Drexel Gomez of the West Indies, head of the team drafting the proposed Anglican covenant, was denied a visa to attend the pre-GAFCON strategy session in Jordan. Two questions, why was he denied a visa? and why was a man in his diplomatically sensitive position attending a meeting of schismatic wannabes?
The Overwork Ethic
How did it happen that every human activity except working — or at least appearing to work — has turned into a source of embarrassment?
Abundance
God, fill my heart with gratitude.
Like a child, I cry for my wants, rather than my needs.
My sense of entitlement is immense.
The Archbishops’ “erroneous” letter
The Church Times on the wedding: Anglicans overseas who do not know the legal force of the clergy freehold might be convinced that the Archbishops are about to crack the whip in some way. But the simple truth is that a cleric who holds the freehold … is at liberty to make up his or her mind about the relative merits of various pronouncements on theology or ethics.
Bishop Shaw blesses Pride marchers
After the high-energy spectacle of the Pride parade about 30 revelers headed to St. Paul’s Cathedral for a more subdued but no less heartfelt celebration of Pride. Massachusetts Episcopal Bishop Thomas Shaw, fresh from marching in the parade, led worshippers in song and prayers.
Telegraph: GAFCON is a semi-fiasco
The truth is that the conference has so far been a shambles. Its leader, the belligerent Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria, has been denied entry to Jordan. Significant absentees at Gafcon include the Rt Rev John Chew, Primate of South-East Asia, and Dr Mouneer Anis, Presiding Bishop of Jerusalem and the Middle East
Shhh! Anglicans meeting
Julia Duin of The Washington Times considers the secrecy surrounding the current GAFCON gathering in Jerusalem, the news-free dreams that leaders of the Anglican Communion harbor for the upcoming Lambeth Conference and wonders why everything is so…quiet.
From GQ: Let God love Gene Robinson
When he was old enough to search for better ways to convey what he felt when the love of God came upon him, he would tell his mother and father and minister and anyone else in Nicholasville, Kentucky, that it was like butter, liquid-warm, luminous, drizzled atop his head and descending over and through him in a seamless golden coat to his feet.