Just back from the Arnold Classic

Every year, in late winter, Columbus, Ohio becomes host to thousands of teeming muscleheads. The event, actually a conglomeration of hundreds of events, is referred to as simply "The Arnold."

My trip this year was probably my best ever. Here I am, meeting some muscular ladies:

Scary, but true!

July 19, I will be entering a bodybuilding contest. A lot of work to do in the gym before that day. I will have just turned 50, so I'll be entering the "Grand Masters" (old guys) division.

The following send-up of Rowan Williams is the funniest thing I've read in several years:

Heere Bigynneth the Tale of the Asse-Hatte.

An Archbishop of Canterbury Tale

No longer Christian in any meaningful sense ...

Christopher Johnson's analysis of why the Episcopal religion is no longer Christian in any meaningful sense.

A new Anglican Settlement ... Bishop Duncan.

I found these recent remarks by Bishop Robert Duncan (Diocese of Pittsburgh) to be very full of hope (transcription by Matt Kennedy of StandFirm).

I'd be interested in hearing comments from anyone with a current connection to Wheaton College.

(I wrote here and here about seeing Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria preach at Wheaton back in September. A lot of Anglicans on hand for that!)

Anglican Communion at RISK!

This is a year out-of-date. But still a worthy thing to show to your non-Anglican friends. (or your head-in-the-sand Episcopalian friends).

Note the great subtitles, the RISK board, the use of the pink top for KJS, etc.

From the website of the Diocese of San Joaquin.

There are some good pastoral letters here on the website of the Diocese of San Joaquin.

This historic and momentous decision by our Annual Convention was the culmination of The Episcopal Church’s failure to heed the repeated calls for repentance issued by the Primates of the Anglican Communion and for the cessation of false teaching and sacramental actions explicitly contrary to Scripture. However, we are no longer operating under the looming shadow of this institutional apostasy because our Annual Convention wisely and prayerfully accepted the gracious invitation for sanctuary from the Southern Cone.

Among those things that will remain the same is the solid teaching of the word of God free from worldly compromise, giving priority to your spiritual well being, faith, and salvation along with a future in the Anglican Communion. You may well discover, too, what it is like to witness to your faith without having to apologize for or feel embarrassed by the decisions of a Church over which you had no control.

Amen to that! It is such a wonderful freedom to have come out from an apostate church ... to be able to feel good about inviting people to church again ... to read of the continuing folly and wickedness of TEc (whether in print or online) and to think: I no longer have to apologize for being connected to that, for funding that. I am no longer tied to the rotten, stinking carcass that is The Episcopal church!

Thanks be to God!!