Book recommendation

If the 2 or 3 of you that visit this blog are looking for a new book, I recommend the 1549 prayer book.  I got a copy, and have been quite pleased with it.  Much of Rite is a copy/paste from this book.

Prayer

I’m still trying to establish a discipline.  This is more difficult than I thought it’d be.  More to the point, I find I’m more easily taken off task.

Suggestions?

Space Alien caught pervin’ at the winder!

Bishops. Sigh.

So, I am told of a CoE Bishop who claims that if you do not buy into global warming, you are akin to that crud in Austria who kept (and raped) his daughter in his basement for something like 17 years.

Boy, this, added to that Sharia jackassery from the ABC, really makes me dislike anything related to the CoE.  Problem is, see my previous post.

Am I meant to suffer?  I don’t dismiss the idea.  But the whiny little human in me is feeling pretty whiny.

Dipping a toe into the blogging pool

I will not write of the path that got me to a particular point, not now anyway, but I reached a point at which I was told by God, while meditating, to just go back to Church (i.e. worshipping Him), and not worry about the current woes of TEC / TAC.

I have the same feeling that I would get when my big brother would go take care of something on my behalf.

I think that the message here is to A) continue with worship, doing the right things, B) do **NOT** get wound up (like I did), and C) He will take care of the rest.  The message was brief, but direct.  Go back, I’ll handle all the other stuff.

Who’s to argue with that?

On a tangent, I try to get meditation nailed down as a skill or discipline, and it’s rather like trying to grab a fish out of a lake! 

It’s been awhile…

Sorry for my absenteeism.

Between night school, the job, and a few other wrenches meant for various gears, I’ve been offline (pardon the geekiness).

I’ve had some religious developments, which I hope to write about, but they’ll have to wait a bit.  Night school and my new running habit beckon.

The Windsor Bishops: Quislings

Matt Kennedy of Stand Firm writes:

The Response by the House of Bishops, joined with their earlier responses and those of the Executive Council, represents an utter rejection of the Primate’s request. There is a bold commitment to permit same sex blessings. There is an avenue ripe for exploitation with regard to episcopal consents. And, as was evident in past statement and in this Response, there will be no attempt to provide adequate oversight for dissenting people, parishes, and/or dioceses.   The very sad thing is that the Windsor Bishops did not lose the fight.   They did not fight.

Amen.

And now, good bishops, think of all those people caught up in sexual sin, who are Sunday by Sunday, being led away in chains toward the darkness and away from Christ. What have you done for them?   You gave their false shepherds your consent. You stood aside. You let go the responsibilities of your office. You won a seat with Canterbury.  It is a sad, sad day.

This prostration before the altars of polity, and now Canterbury, have me well and truly disgusted with Anglicanism.  What’s the point of anything goes theology?  That’s what you have in Anglicanism today.  “Reason” has blotted out Scripture, and vestments are only a nod to Tradition.  There is no theological Trinity anymore.

I am…

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The Continuum: A candorous masterpiece!

GOLD! 

In Bishop Howe’s proposal above we see the desperate measures of Evangelicals and other conservatives in the Episcopal Church who want to hold their national church together, and want to prevent it from being forced out of the world wide Anglican Communion. Not that the Archbishop of Canterbury is really willing to do the things he was promising only last year when he saw no way to keep the Episcopal Church in the AC. His trip to the United States, and his spineless compromise at every turn from the time he got here, have all been proof that Archbishop Rowan Williams is the one man who can hold a debate on any issue without an opponent. Just put two podiums on a stage, and let him walk back and forth between them, and the debate can proceed. Nonetheless, the African Primates, the Primate of the Southern Cone, and others, will stick to their guns, and insist on the terms of the Windsor Report and of the Dar es Salaam Communigue. So, while the boneless wonder makes nice with the apostates, the swords are being sharpened nonetheless. I mean swords of division. After all the dust settles, the Anglican Communion will never be the same, for it will no longer have even the appearance of collegiality and union.

“Boneless Wonder”.

It FITS.  It just FITS.  He’s no leader, that’s for sure.  He might well be worst good man on the planet at this time.  The Anglican Communion is dead, and he’s Nero to our Rome.

TEC to World: Go To Heck

“We’re going to do what we want to do; you can all go shove it. “

House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church
New Orleans, Louisiana
September 25, 2007

A Response to Questions and Concerns Raised by our Anglican Communion Partners:
In accordance with Our Lord’s high priestly prayer that we be one, and in the spirit of Resolution A159 of the 75th General Convention, and in obedience to his Great Commission to go into the world and make disciples, and in gratitude for the gift of the Anglican Communion as a sign of the Holy Spirit’s ongoing work of reconciliation throughout the world, we offer the following to The Episcopal Church, the Primates, the Anglican Consultative Council (ACC), and the larger Communion, with the hope of “mending the tear in the fabric” of our common life in Christ.

EDIT: Um, yeah.  Pardon me for not believing you…..