It has been some time since we offered any kind of update on the Anglican Wars, here and abroad. This one will be brief. I promise.
Mitres not in style (on first reference)
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I have no response to that
It has been a very busy week for me as we ended the spring term at the Washington Journalism Center. I have been away from my keyboard quite a bit.
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Unpacking the pagan prayer beads
In the late 1980s, I went to the Roman Catholic cathedral in downtown Denver to cover a rally by Catholic feminists who were demanding open talks about the ordination of women and other changes in Church teachings. It was your basic Catholic progressive gathering, or so I thought.
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Seeking the perfect religion writer
As a rule, I rather like articles that end with statements such as this: “Maybe Sally Quinn has gotten religion.”
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Let's split the difference
William Frey, the Episcopal Church’s retired Bishop of Colorado, has often said his fellow Episcopalians can confuse Anglicanism’s celebrated via media with merely finding the synthesis of a thesis and an antithesis. As tmatt has mentioned before, Bishop Frey explains the impossibility of this approach by joking that, for some, the via media between a Christian and an atheist understanding of Jesus is “Jesus is occasionally Lord.”
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This is why the altar guild gets paid the big bucks
The Episcopal Church sure generates a lot of news stories. The latest came after the vestry of Colorado’s largest Episcopal parish voted to leave and join the Church of Nigeria’s North American mission. Associated Press reporter Colleen Slevin had a straightforward story about the move, which didn’t make the Colorado bishop very happy:
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It's about more than sex
So the big it is mentioned within first three paragraphs of all the major stories on this week’s announcement that the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops rejected a demand from the Anglican Communion’s primates to establish a separate leadership structure for dissenting U.S. dioceses and parishes.
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Andrew Sullivan's scary bedtime stories
Like any journalist who has worked for an opinion journal, Andrew Sullivan is entitled to some favorite themes. One of his favorites for the past few years is the insidious threat of what he calls Christianism, or theoconservatism. In his 7,400-word New Republic takedown of Dinesh D’Souza’s latest book, The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11, that theme is so prevalent that it calls to mind one of those outrageously large American flags favored by car dealerships (at least in the Deep South), popping defiantly in the wind.
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Follow the Episcopal money
All together now, let’s repeat the central refrain in the ongoing Anglican Communion wars: “The Africans pray, the Americans pay and the British write the resolutions.”
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