Search Results for: "melnyk"

Veterans Day with the Devil

2004-11-11 16:18:14

Satirist Harry Shearer makes explicit the comedic Stonehenge elements of the Episco-Druid story during Apologies of the Week (requires RealPlayer) on Le Show, his weekly broadcast of music, comedy and sketches. After reading news reports' common disclaimer that the Rev. William Melnyk and the Rev. Glyn Lorraine Ruppe-Melnyk did not return ...

The druidry story transmogrifies

2004-11-09 20:30:02

Newspapers in greater Philadelphia have begun reporting on the past Druidic interests of the Rev. William Melnyk and his wife, the Rev. Glyn Lorraine Ruppe-Melnyk, but some have lost the story's finer distinctions. "The online editor of Christianity Today magazine accused the church of 'promoting pagan rites and pagan deities' and ...

To everything there is a season -- and a liturgy?

2004-11-02 08:54:54

The story of Episco-Druid rites has moved from the Anglican blogosophere to print, and in two very different forms. Julia Duin of The Washington Times reports the story, adding the detail of Bishop Charles Bennison's statement (PDF) about the controversy. Religion editor Shirley Ragsdale of the Des Moines Register writes a column ...

Druids and goddesses and Episcopalians, oh my

2004-10-29 14:53:07

Every now and then, a religion story breaks out online that truly defies a quick and easy blog report. This is certainly the case with the slap-fest that is taking place between our friends at the Christianity Today blog and the trailblazing liturgists at the Episcopal Church's Office of Women's ...

Doing the Druidic hokey pokey

2005-04-20 11:02:55

Terry wrote yesterday about "the dreaded passive-voice paraphrase quote." Today I turn to another vexing problem in journalism: the dreaded one-sentence summary of a complex history. Kristen E. Holmes of The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote an engaging update on Tuesday about the Rev. William Melnyk, a former Episcopal priest who has been ...

Explaining the Episcopalians

2007-03-01 20:54:00

I thought that I would, for obvious reasons, let the whole Anglican warfare thing rest for a few days. However, all good things must come to an end. After all, some of the most powerful forces in American journalism have, in the past week, paused to tell us what it was ...

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