Why not click over to Paul Bagshaw's post at Not the Same Stream to read his excellent advice writ large in LIVING COLOR on casting your vote on the covenant. Best of all, Paul is English and not some ex-colonial interloper interfering in England's affairs.
Alas, the covenant is the affair of everyone who is a member of a church in the Anglican Communion.
Friday, March 23, 2012
MIXED METAPHOR FROM THE BIBLE
And now, O Lord, I bend the knee of my heart,This post may be the start of a series on biblical mixed metaphors. Not that there's anything wrong with them!
and make my appeal, sure of your gracious goodness.
UPDATE: Actually, the 'Prayer of Manassah' is not included in the canon of most Bibles, but it is included in 'The Daily Office' of the Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church. Alas, I seem to have chosen a rather poor starter for my series of biblical mixed metaphors.
DIARMAID MACCULLOCH ON THE ANGLICAN COVENANT
Tomorrow, March 24, 2012, six diocesan synods in the Church of England will vote on whether to adopt the proposed Anglican Covenant.
- Blackburn
- Exeter
- Guildford
- Lincoln
- Oxford
- Peterborough
There are 12 dioceses yet to vote.
Dioceses for the Covenant to date: 12
Dioceses against the Covenant to date: 20
For the Covenant to succeed 11 more dioceses must vote in favor
For the Covenant to fail 2 more dioceses must vote against
Almighty and everliving God, source of all wisdom and understanding, be present with those who take counsel and vote on Anglican Covenant. Teach them in all things to seek first your honor and glory. Guide them to perceive what is right, and grant them both the courage to pursue it and the grace to accomplish it; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
From the Book of Common Prayer of the Episcopal Church (edited).Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford and Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford. He was knighted for his service to scholarship in January 2012.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
OOPS! WRONG PARTY
By all accounts it was an honest mistake, political party convention attendees said.Well, Dolan gave his Republican speech to a group of Democrats, and the story has a happy ending in that the parties involved in the situation remained civil with each other. Campaign politics in the US have strayed so far into the Bizarro World that the incident didn't surprise me at all, but it did give me a laugh. Cynic that I am, I think both political parties are bought, and it's not ordinary folks that paid for them. For me, it comes down to which party will screw the powerless the least, and I believe you know my answer.
Republican congressional candidate Dan Dolan of Muscatine arrived early at the Monroe County Courthouse for the Republican convention being held Saturday in Albia, Iowa.
Unfortunately, the county Democrats were holding their convention in the same building, and Dolan spoke to the wrong group of people.
“Nobody asked enough questions before he started speaking,” Monroe County Supervisor Denny Ryan said. “It finally got to the point in the speech where one of the people said, ‘Are you sure you’re at the right convention?’”
Dolan laughed Monday when he described the encounter.
“It was a crazy day,” Dolan said. “We had scheduled 10 speaking engagements through the district.”
Thanks to Paul (A.) for the laugh and the link.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
May we stop calling it the defense budget and start calling it the war budget?The thought is not original with me, but I forgot where I read it first.
BEAR IN MIND...
President Barack Obama campaigned on energy issues on Wednesday, visiting a handful of oil wellheads on Federal land in New Mexico and a solar installation in Boulder City, Nevada.
The subtext of this Obama campaign is public unhappiness with the price of gasoline and the hypocritical attacks on him over this issue by his Republican opponents. The fact is that there is only one thing Obama could have done to bring down oil prices, and that would have been to veto the National Defense Authorization Act until Congress took back out the provisions for crippling sanctions on Iran. Republicans back these sanctions to the hilt, which is why it is dishonest of them to attack Obama on high gas prices.Juan Cole at Informed Comment.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
ANGLICAN COVENANT - COMPARE AND CONTRAST
Archbisop of Canterbury Rowan Williams
Bishop James Jones - Presidential Address - Diocesan Synod March 2012 from Diocese of Liverpool on Vimeo.
Six dioceses in the Church of England will vote on the proposed covenant this coming Saturday, March 24, 2012:
- Blackburn
- Exeter
- Guildford
- Lincoln
- Oxford
- Peterborough
STORY OF THE DAY - COUCH EXPLORER
When I was young I always wanted to goFrom StoryPeople.
exploring in a cave and when I got older
I finally did & it was dark everywhere &
there were strange sounds like your
stomach after a big meal & I couldn't
wait to get out. I figured out later that I
mainly liked to go exploring caves in my
mind where I could be comfortable &
not get dirty & cold. If you read too
much National Geographic when you're
young it's hard to adjust to the real world.
BLOGGER'S SPAM FILTER WORKS
Some weeks ago, I removed the function for typing in the fuzzy and frustrating letters for my readers to to prove they are not robots. Blogger's spam filter works quite well. I have not had a spam comment to delete for days, and my legitimate commenters are not blocked.
For those bloggers amongst you who still enable the fuzzy letter function, I suggest that you disable it and give Blogger's system a try. If the system doesn't work for you, then you can always enable the robot blocker again. It's annoying to have to try to decipher the fuzzy letters and then type the pairs of words three or four times before being able to post a comment.
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