“We all know people who have done wrong and blame someone else,” said Kirk Duffy, a Savannah businessman and a deacon at St. Thomas Episcopal Church on the Isle of Hope, who has been active in Kairos for 10 years. “But by the time they land in prison, it’s reality time. They have time to think about what got them there.”
Without plan, preparation or promotion, the Election of Wyoming’s 9th Bishop was broadcast over the internet using a laptop, cellphone and cheapie web camera.
Does the Covenant look any better if you can perform the mental feat of forgetting the history of the document when you read the current text?
Too often when the going gets tough, lay people get going and hightail it right out of church. Church is messy, community is messy, life is messy. You can’t get in the habit of running from it because the mess will follow you until you deal with it.
The Hon. Byron Rushing, who has been reelected Diocese of Massachusetts Deputation to the General Convention of the Episcopal Church two or three dozen times, said that churches, like towns and cities, states and nations, are inescapably political organizations, and that churches get into trouble when they pretend otherwise.
In the midst of the debates over ritualism, James DeKoven, a clerical member of the House of Deputies, vigorously espoused the Anglo-Catholic position. . . . Concerned about the evangelicals’ efforts to restrict the range of doctrinal and liturgical beliefs in the Episcopal Church, DeKoven delivered a memorable speech to his fellow deputies in 1871. He defended ritualism on three grounds.
We stood in the theatre where Paul, according to Acts 20, made his farewell speech. And we were able to calculate later how long the author of Acts envisaged it would take the Ephesian elders to get there and to return home knowing they’d never see Paul again. Two days later we gazed sadly at ruined buildings in Thyatira thinking of the judgment of Revelation 2:18-23 and wondering who “Jezebel” might have been.