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Author: Jim Naughton

A magisterial dismissal

October 14, 2006 12 Comments

UPDATED The Very Rev. Colin Slee, Dean of Southwark, has written a magisterial dismissal of the Kigali statement. (In the eyes of this observer, who,

I was afraid of this

October 13, 2006 3 Comments

Drop in on Beliefnet this evening and you find the headline: Episcopalians May Say No to Weddings. The link leads to this story from G.

Panel of Reference speaks

October 13, 2006 6 Comments

UPDATED The report of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Panel of Reference on the Diocese of New Westminster (Vancouver), which blesses same sex unions, is here.

“Daniel” returns

October 12, 2006 3 Comments

I recenlty received this email from someone who frequented this blog in its previous incarnation: Hey Jim– Back in January of this year, I spent

Withholding the sacraments

October 12, 2006 1 Comment

The Chicago Tribune ran a story yesterday by Manya A. Brachear about a liberal parish in the conversative Diocese of Springfield asking for delegated episcopal

Back to work

October 12, 2006 18 Comments

My younger son and I have been nursing the same sort of cold these past few days. I am back at my desk now, but

Friday Night Lights II

October 11, 2006 No Comments

I’ve found another fan of Friday Night Lights the new NBC show on Tuesday nights. Slate has a glowing review today. Troy Patterson writes: “If

In praise of Thinking Anglicans

October 10, 2006 No Comments

I am under the weather today, or, more accurately, the weather is on top of me. Fortunately, Simon Sarmiento of Thinking Anglicans has a raft

Faith-based favoritism

October 9, 2006 No Comments

The New York Times is in the midst of a four-part series on “how American religious organizations benefit from an increasingly accommodating government.” Today’s article

Getting out of the marriage business?

October 8, 2006 3 Comments

Michael Paulson of The Boston Globe has a story that begins: “In a novel approach to the tensions that have accompanied the same-sex marriage debate