There is an Episcopal minister in charge of the Indian school here. The school has now seventy-five scholars, and the present gentleman has been mainly instrumental in building it up. He has won my respect and confidence by his unselfish devotion to duty and the pluck and courage and energy he has displayed in meeting and fighting the discouragements in his path.
It took 2 days for our suburban cul-de-sac to be plowed at all – and then the second blizzard came. Unlike many in the area we have had our power on the whole time, so we were not materially deprived, apart from cabin fever. It was just a long stretch of time at being at home, mostly it’s been an experience of just being “stopped.”
The Traditional Anglican Church has been severely criticized by an Australian judge who says he is “astonished” the church allowed Wilfred Edwin Dennis to re-enter
But don’t take away our appointed seats in the House of Lords. In another demonstration that consistency is a hobgoblin of the small-minded and the
Mark Silk, the proprietor of another of the ranked blogs, Spiritual Politics, wryly notes, “OK, you’re asking, how many non-influential such blogs are there? The number, no doubt, is legion.”
1. Back in TIME (1965), AKA The Annals of Original Meaning – “The Episcopalians, for example, are committed to help weaker Anglican churches abroad through
UK governments in the 1950s were so intimidated by religious instituitions that they did not inform them of findings showing that the churches were unwittingly
In its second day (delayed due to weather) the Diocese of Virginia Annual Council passed several resolutions including one on blessings and marriage. After several whereas clauses and resolves comes these recommendations:
In the past few years we lgbt Anglicans have been treated to a mind-boggling exercise at the highest eschalons of the Anglican Communion involving Archbishop Rowan Williams. The institutional attitude of Anglicanism toward lgbt persons has become represented in and by a single person. And that attitude is ugly, like a spider-trap of insanity-causing propositions all too akin to the alcoholic family or abusive home.
[Judas must be replaced by] “one of the men who have accompanied us,” continues Peter. Note how he requires them to be eyewitnesses, even though the Spirit was about to come. There was still great care concerning this: “One of the men who have accompanied us,” he says, “during all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and out among us.” He means those who had dwelt with Christ, not simply been present as disciples. . . .