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In the summer of 2006, Father Martyn Minns of Truro Episcopal Church outside Washington, D.C., became Bishop Martyn Minns of the Convocation for Anglicans in North America, a missionary effort of the gigantic Anglican Church of Nigeria. That would be three years ago.
I know that neither the Vatican nor the White House made it easy to cover President Obama’s meeting with Pope Benedict XVI last week, but the situation seemed especially desperate when a reporter must begin interpreting body language for coded messages. Here’s Jeff Israely of Time:
“Pastor who opposes homosexuality may get Chicago City Council seat,” the Chicago Tribune reported with a mouthful of a headline (and that’s the shortened version).
Remember when President George Bush nominated Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court? As readers and viewers were told for months, Alito would become the fifth Catholic on the court — the most ever.
It may be time for that old, old Episcopal joke, again. This is the version that I heard in the mid-1990s.
So I was wandering around the internet, as one does, and came across a couple of stories involving curious goings on at a couple of grave sites. Some of the stories were really poorly written.
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the civil rights organization founded 52 years ago by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has been thrust into the gay marriage debate by its Los Angeles president, who last year campaigned against an amendment to the California constitution prohibiting gay marriage.
Last week my son and I saw the Galileo/Medici exhibit at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute Science Museum. The information about Galileo’s trial didn’t go below the surface or delineate the church’s efforts to move beyond it, which was too bad.
To tell you the truth, I have no idea what to say about this open-a-vein news feature from the Dallas Morning News. This really stirs something in me, as a guy who spent a big chunk of his childhood in Wichita Falls, Texas.
