Day: October 17, 2010

Sunday Social Hour

Who’s retweeting the Episcopal Cafe? Lots of people. Here’s what’s afoot in our social media spaces this week.

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Bishop of Fulham drafts his own walking papers

Broadhurst’s distaste for C of E politics will come as no surprise to those who’ve watched with the least interest. In February he said on BBC’s HARDtalk that “the Anglican experiment is … over,” and a few months later he was noted as one of those planning for an ordinariate in secret meetings between three CoE bishops and advisers to Pope Benedict XVI.

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Love carries us to the Lover of Souls

There are some who think frequent Communion apt to produce too great familiarity, and consequently abate of the reverence with which we should approach the dreadful Mysteries: ’tis true, familiarity amongst men, creates many times contempt; because the more we are acquainted with one another, the more we discover our infirmities and defects, and that lessens our esteem.

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Feeding the uncredentialed poor

In San Francisco, most of the large, established non-profits who feed the hungry have big budgets, lots of staff, lots of overhead, many government contracts and grants, and a professionalized, social-service approach. The neighborhood food pantries, on the other hand, are run very cheaply, almost entirely by volunteers, many of them poor; they don’t employ development directors or staff to do screening and intake.

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