Anglicanism

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Inclusivity is the new black

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We all agreed to take a look at Jon Meacham’s lengthy mash note to the sainted Billy Graham. I alternately enjoyed the Newsweek piece and felt it went a bit over the top in luscious praise. But I’m pretty sure I would have hated it if I hadn’t read Meacham’s earlier pieces on the Nativity, the Crucifixion and the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.


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Come home, Roman Catholics, all is forgiven

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Susan Wood, filing for the [Carson City] Nevada Appeal News Service, detects an irony that has, to date, escaped the attention of church historians. Writing about a visit of Katharine Jefferts Schori, who will become the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church on Nov. 4, Wood offers this stunning collection of direct quotes and sloppy paraphrases:


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I am a baller and life will be phat

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I attended my beautiful cousin’s wedding a few weeks ago where the pastor joked that he was going to do something unorthodox and not to report him to anyone. (Yes, I groaned at that point.) Anyway, he proceeded to rewrite King David’s 23rd Psalm from first person singular to first person plural! Isn’t that so cute and meaningful? Wow, the psalm just sat there and did nothing before this Denver pastor rewrote it.


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The devil isn't the only one wearing Prada

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The British papers have been having fun with the recent move of the Rev. Joanna Jepson to the London College of Fashion, where she’ll serve as chaplain. And before you ask, yes it does happen to be Fashion Week here at GetReligion. Anyway, here is some sample copy: Is God the new black? How could a benevolent God permit the latest Roberto Cavalli collection? Heavenly bodies and unholy tantrums get God. Curate fashions a catwalk pulpit, etc. etc.


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