Thanks be to God! The new American Anglican Province will be formed, God being our helper, on December 3rd, 2008.
This video is from AnglicanTV ...
Note to Katharine Jefferts Schori: Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four dioceses playing a game can make a play-Province which licks your "real" Province hollow.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Finish Line - Slot Cars as Fine Art
Near the bottom of this post, I mentioned that Edo Bertoglio would be creating a Thingie-related (slot car) exhibition for an art gallery. The poster for the event has been released. It is to take place on November 27 at Galleria Pack Milano (Milan, Italy). Nicely done website they have, by the way. Here's the poster:
And here is Edo's Thingie collection!
And here is Edo's Thingie collection!
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Another Cheer for Organized Religion ...
As a postscript to this blog entry, I would like to mention one additional benefit of Organized Religion, and that is its beautiful power to influence even the shape of our rebellions from God.
One huge benefit I obtained from growing up in Organized Religion was that when I went through my (seemingly obligatory, no?) college-age rebellion from God, it was the real, almighty, triune God of the Bible, and the truly incarnate God/man Jesus Christ against whom I rebelled, and not some 3rd-rate imaginary deity.
One huge benefit I obtained from growing up in Organized Religion was that when I went through my (seemingly obligatory, no?) college-age rebellion from God, it was the real, almighty, triune God of the Bible, and the truly incarnate God/man Jesus Christ against whom I rebelled, and not some 3rd-rate imaginary deity.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Hot Rod Anglican T-Shirt Blowout Sale !!!
To welcome all my new readers, who may have wandered over from StandFirm or MCJ ... I am holding a special "Buy it While There's Still Such a Thing as Anglicanism" T-shirt sale!
*** Not available in stores! ***
Available in Men's Medium-Large-XL sizes (Hanes Beefy-T), and Women's Cap Sleeve T (M-L-XL - see size chart below, because they run small!) ...
If you're ready to order, please click on the convenient PayPal button below ...
Here is the sizing chart for the Ladies' T-shirts:
And here is the lovely Tracy, modeling one of these fine shirts!
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
We're Queer ... We're Here ... To Disrupt Your Worship
This attack by militiant homosexuals happened about 50 miles from my parish ...
Read about it here.
And from a sympathetic source, here.
Some of the comments at StandFirm are helpful.
As I've said before, there will be Christian martyrs made over this issue. The question is not if, but when? ...
A number of other questions occur to me, such as:
1) Would they have dared to try this in a mosque? What would have been the outcome?
2) How can we best protect against these people who wish to stop us from worshipping our God in peace? How can we make this costly enough for them that they will be forced to severely limit this sort of activity?
3) At what point would such people be satisfied? I can answer that one, at least: They will not be satisfied until every individual Christian and every church which believes homosexual sex to be sinful ... is utterly silenced.
In any case, brothers and sisters, I want you to take note of one thing: What you do on Sunday morning, kneeling in your pews, lifting your hearts up unto the Lord, adoring Christ in the Eucharist, affirming the historic Christian faith by reciting The Creed ... these are not small and insignificant things. They are actions which take place before the throne of God, in heaven. And, because Christ has taught us to pray, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven ... the earthly strongholds of God's enemies are torn down when we worship God in the beauty of holiness.
God's enemies are aware of this, I think, if only instinctively. And, thus, they attack the problem at its proper root: the public worship of God.
Read about it here.
And from a sympathetic source, here.
Some of the comments at StandFirm are helpful.
As I've said before, there will be Christian martyrs made over this issue. The question is not if, but when? ...
A number of other questions occur to me, such as:
1) Would they have dared to try this in a mosque? What would have been the outcome?
2) How can we best protect against these people who wish to stop us from worshipping our God in peace? How can we make this costly enough for them that they will be forced to severely limit this sort of activity?
3) At what point would such people be satisfied? I can answer that one, at least: They will not be satisfied until every individual Christian and every church which believes homosexual sex to be sinful ... is utterly silenced.
In any case, brothers and sisters, I want you to take note of one thing: What you do on Sunday morning, kneeling in your pews, lifting your hearts up unto the Lord, adoring Christ in the Eucharist, affirming the historic Christian faith by reciting The Creed ... these are not small and insignificant things. They are actions which take place before the throne of God, in heaven. And, because Christ has taught us to pray, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven ... the earthly strongholds of God's enemies are torn down when we worship God in the beauty of holiness.
God's enemies are aware of this, I think, if only instinctively. And, thus, they attack the problem at its proper root: the public worship of God.
Monday, November 10, 2008
The Lame Shall Enter First
Here, in 4 parts, is a recent video production of Flannery O'Connor's short story, The Lame Shall Enter First. It is not true to Flannery's text in every detail, but it gets enough right to make it worthwhile. If you have 37 minutes of free time or so, check it out!
It is from Chris Pierdomenico of Philagape Productions.
Part 2 is here.
Part 3 is here.
Part 4 is here.
It is from Chris Pierdomenico of Philagape Productions.
Part 2 is here.
Part 3 is here.
Part 4 is here.
Saturday, November 8, 2008
The Episcopal Church Today - A Quick Status Check
(H/T: Christopher Johnson)
From the Diocese of California website:
It occurs to me that maybe they had better change the name of the parish, however:
From the Diocese of California website:
Saint Mary the Virgin hosts hot steamy night of Scripture
On the night before the big election, I was done with campaigning and the last thing I wanted to see was another political commercial. My pre-election tension was high, as a Facebook friend wrote in her status that she felt “the same anxiety as on Christmas Eve when I was six-years-old and I had asked Santa for a bicycle.” I completely understood the sentiment and I needed relief. What better than a night out for trashy tales of sex and smut? And in the fullness of pre-election ambiguity, where better to go for bawdy fare than St. Mary the Virgin, San Francisco?You know, the way that the Episcopal Revisionists (i.e., Apostates) told it to me, it was only Traditional (i.e., orthodox) Anglicans who were obsessed with human sexuality. So it is (you will have to pardon the term) queer to find these folks obsessing over sex in the Bible.
It occurs to me that maybe they had better change the name of the parish, however:
In her closing to the program notes, Hansen (the Rev. Beth Hansen, Senior Associate Rector at SMV) writes:
“Scripture offers witness to a clear pattern of sneaky seductive women becoming very useful to God’s purpose. Ironic that by Eve’s seducing Adam to eat the forbidden fruit we are driven from God’s Grace, yet by many women’s sexual seduction we are given the progeny for redemption back into Grace. With such unexpected Holy results coming from these sneaky seductresses, curious that our Ultimate Redeemer was born of a virgin, or so they say.”On the bright side, though, another entire parish has had the wisdom to leave this folly behind. THANKS be to God!
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