The Archive

Day: November 17, 2011

BREAKING: Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori issues statement on Bede Parry

November 17, 2011 9 Comments

I wrote to Conception Abbey, from whom I received only an acknowledgement that he had served there, been sent for treatment to a facility in New Mexico, and had been dismissed for this incident of misconduct. Neither then nor later did I receive a copy of any report of a psychological examination in connection with his service in the Roman Catholic Church.

Re-structuring the church

November 17, 2011 11 Comments

The Diocese of Oregon meeting in Convention this past weekend adopted Standing Commission on Structure:

A Sense of Ending

November 17, 2011 1 Comment

By then, however, Henry and I, still feeling a bit stung, just shrugged off her kind and gracious invitation to do the same for us. After all, we were happy, we had two sets of paperwork: what more could we need?

Koinonia and freedom

November 17, 2011 No Comments

What would it mean instead to create serious community, modeled on the egalitarian life within the Godhead? What would it mean, in other words, if we modeled our koinonia on the koinonia that pulses forever among the Three?