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Something to offend everyone

August 25, 2007 No Comments

The Episcopal Church has gone crazy. We’ve become pigs who roll around in our own mud, and when we’ve finished rolling here, we roll there. Perhaps eat a little spiritual food, and then wallow back to the mud. Talk about God, mention Jesus like he’s our best friend, and act exactly like he said not to act. Be exactly who he said not to be. We’re trying, so we say. We’re trying to work through the present rift. If talking is any indication, we’re trying hard. If analyzing is any indication, we’re trying even harder.

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The Lucifer effect

August 25, 2007 No Comments

The Lucifer Effect by Philip Zambardo chronicles one disaster after another in which typically good people succumbed to the psychological forces of the situation, with the worst possible results; and how, in each case, those in power invariably drew the mistaken conclusion that the pathologies were the result of a few bad apples—when in fact the bigger problem was the nature of the barrel they were placed in.

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The colonization of silence

August 25, 2007 No Comments

“The colonization of silence is complete,” writes Andrew Waggoner in NewMusicBox. “Its progress was so gradual that even those who watched it with alarm have only now begun to take stock of the losses. Reflection, discernment, a sustainable sense of tranquility, of knowing where and how to find oneself—these are only the most obvious casualties of marauding noise’s march to the sea.Much more insidious has been the loss of music itself.”

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Who speaks for Africa?

August 23, 2007 9 Comments

The voice of the Global South apparenlty emanates not from Abuja, Nigeria, but from Fairfax, Virginia. The Church Times reports that Martyn Minns, not Peter Akinola is the principal author of the recent letter from the Church of Nigeria that bears Akinola’s name. The significance of this development lies less in the fact that Akinola has a ghostwriter than that what has long been portrayed as the authentic voice of African Anglicanism is, manifestly, not African.

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Bishop of El Salvador calls Anglicans to mutual aid

August 23, 2007 No Comments

The Anglican Bishop of El Salvador has released a letter to the people of his province in light of the recent natural disasters of earthquake and hurricane in South and Central America. He calls on the people of his country and all the Anglican Provinces of the Americas to do what they can to help out in these difficult days.

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Eating our way to holiness

August 23, 2007 No Comments

There’s a growing movement in the farming and grocery industry to consider the religious teachings on food when consumers are deciding what to purchase. This isn’t simply a matter of more farmers growing food according to kosher principles or more butchers becoming more sensitive to scriptural injunctions about how animals should be slaughtered. There’s also a focus on questions about …

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Bishop Sisk on the real question before us

August 22, 2007 3 Comments

Bishop Mark Sisk, of the Diocese of New York has written a letter to his diocese about some of the issues facing the Anglican Communion and the Episcopal Church’s relationship to the Communion. “The presenting question is: Will the Communion survive in its present form or won’t it? To state the obvious: no one can answer that question with certainty…”

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