Following up on the announcement several months ago of the impending retirement of Bishop Chane of Washington, word came our way earlier this week, but
We’d take it a bit further than just being about sex, or even clergy, strictly speaking. In terms of meriting copy space, the headlines actually seem to be several. For one thing, he crossed himself – that is, said something apparently at odds with prior behavior, at least as “The Body’s Grace” attests.
“I am praying hard for Ted,” Armstrong said. “[I]t’s hard for any of us to understand the level of temptation or the level of attack he’s had to deal with, but if this is the case then he walked up to the edge and was victorious, and I think we ought to celebrate that.”
Sometimes it’s interesting to see how comments on the Facebook page can take a different tack than comments here on the blog. But in other
“So, the Diocese is going after a Federal ruling as to which is the ‘real’ diocese, and the Federal courts are pretty much bound by law to say the real Diocese is the one TEC says is the Diocese. The trademark complaint is a legal device aimed at getting this done.”
A dreadful thing, in truth, is poverty, as all who have had experience of it know. For no words can express the trouble which they endure who live in poverty, without knowing the relief of true philosophy. And in the case of Lazarus, there was not only this evil, but bodily weakness superadded, and that in the highest degree
Now, let me say that my wife sought something different. She wanted peace and quiet, and to be closer to nature. She does enjoy sailing, but she enjoys more watching eagles fly over anchorages. We both got what we wanted. She got closer to nature. I got challenges. And before it was over, nature kicked my butt.