– VOTE FOR US HERE! We’re crawling up the vote-tally! Fly, my pretties, fly! Smite the crunchicon Kendallites and their hirsute master! Discomfit the Drelloid drone-army! … (pollhost.com)
– UTTER COMPLIANCE, and pastoral sensitivity; “St. James Loses in Property Dispute with Diocese of Pennsylvania” … (ctsix.org)
– THE ZAHL: “Thoughts on the Windsor [...]
From the British newspapers: Geoffrey Rowell in The Times writes that The calendar of commercialism does not reflect our spiritual rhythms. Andrew Brown in the Guardian asks, in an essay entitled Belief systems: Are we hardwired for religion, or is…
A range of essays from the Fall 2005 issue of Anglican Theological Review is now available from this page. Several of these relate to the Windsor Report. The Windsor Report: Communion, Structure, and Covenant by Ellen Wondra (this is an…
Sorry, folks– too wiped to do many graphics right now… mebbe tomorrow. Enjoy!
– VOTE FOR US HERE! Smite the swarming Kendallites and their graphically-challenged master! Diss the Drellian dystopians! … (pollhost.com)
– HEARTLESS PERSECUTION: AAC Press Release: Anglican Church Finds “No Room at the Innâ€? in Baltimore. Remember Bp. Ingham locking the doors [...]
“Anglican Mainstream” has issued a press release. The text of it is not currently on the AM website but meanwhile it can be found here. It says in part (emphasis added): Following the passing of the Act, the House of…
In today’s Church Times Bill Bowder reports on what the Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich said in Bishop: gays ‘amongst the best’ clerics. Earlier in the month, Rachel Harden had two articles: Priests prepare to register their civil partnerships…
BBC Radio 4’s Analysis: Is God on their Side?, was broadcast on Thursday, 29 December, 2005 at 20:30 GMT. Analysis explores the beliefs, the world view and the aspirations of the politically religious in America to discover why so many…
Thursday, December 29th, A.D. 2005
Advent & Christmas
THE TRUTH About Christmas, the Twelve Day Feast …. (chattablogs)
GET RELIGION: “Pope at Christmas: You write the lead”; “A holiday against syncretism . . . syncretized”; and “Yes, some are offended by “Merry Christmasâ€? …. (getreligion)
CHRISTMAS EVE: Sri Lankan legislator gunned down at vigil Mass …. [...]
– DOWN MEMORY LANE– “The other day, I wandered the Episcopal News Service archives in search of ECUSA reaction to the 1998 Lambeth Conference sexuality resolution. As I read, two facts quickly became apparent. The rupture in the Anglican world began five years before Gene Robinson got his pointy hat” … (mcj.blog)
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– NOT TO BE PICKY OR ANYTHING, The Christmas season starts on Christmas day, not before … (orthodoxytoday)
– NATIVITY SERMON of +John Chrysostomos … (freerep)
– CANTERBURY– Cathedral- “The miraculous love of Christmas changes everything” … (acns)
– TO BE PRECISE, “IN the 5199th year of the Creation of the world, from [...]