From the Onion: Christ Announces Hiring Of Associate Christ

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“Overwhelmed by prayers,”  Jesus Christ is urging folks to enlist the services of a customer service rep from Tacoma, Washington, who has promised the same level of service as people have come to expect from the Son of God himself, according [...]

No Outcasts on marriage in postmodern society

Ran across this in a blog that’s an outreach of the Diocese of Central NY that seems to be a proponent of the church of beer. (They have an open spirituality discussion that meets monthly at Empire Brewing Company, in Armory Square in Syracuse.) This essay talks about the implications of marriage in the afterlife, [...]

Putting their money where their mouths are

Clergy and lay delegates at the annual council, faced with a slashed budget for Shrine Mont camp scholarship budgets, were strident in their call to have the funding restored.
But of course, when you restore something in one line, you must cut it somewhere else, right?
So it was put to the council: how many of [...]

Live from the Diocese of Virginia Annual Council

I’m at the press table, although if any of you are here you’re not likely to be reading this since you’re at Eucharist.
But I will probably be here tomorrow, too, so please find me!!

Brewpub in a church?

[Backdated post -- will likely show up in feeds in February.]
On the Cafe today, I picked up a church-of-beer story that’s a little bit backwards, as a decommissioned church is being eyed as a possible site for a brewpub.
It bears noting that such a place, in my mind, would be the perfect gathering place for [...]

sticking my neck out

Wah. I am starting to sound like a one-note flute sometimes, I guess, when I defend the fringes. But there is one place I’m hard and fast on when it comes to tradition, and that’s church music.
I love hymns and anthems, and I really should be in the choir, but EfM takes precedence right now [...]

That’s me in the corner

OK, if I’ve managed to figure out one thing, it’s that I want my ministry to be in the world and vaguely evangelistic, because I don’t really like that word but don’t have a better one for it. And it occurred to me, that …
If I was new to the church, and walked in one [...]

Is it me, or are Pisky-Women…

… more likely to be astute admirers of English Literature, particularly of the Austen-Woolf corridor?
I’m starting to feel typecast in my own novel. Well, at least I don’t have a collar and a crush on the local police chief.

Welcome to Episcopalia

Now some round these parts might think to be all splittin’ hairs over this and that in the anglican communion, but really, nothing gets Episcopalians up in a row more than standing firm about their parking spaces.

Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

On Tuesday, we went to the National Cathedral to hear Barbara Kingsolver reading from and discussing her new book, Animal,Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life.
The writeup is here.

Saturday Faithspaces—They Walk in Hallowed Halls

Another in the stained glass series: The light cast by stained glass windows in the National Cathedral leaves the illusion of robed figures–one standing, one kneeling—on the marble floor.
I wish the picture itself wasn’t marred by camera movement, but it’s still startling—and lovely.

Saturday Faithspaces — Columns and Light

In the past couple of years, I have come to really appreciate stained glass windows, both as artistic works and as a channel for painted light. In October of 2005, I attended a conference in D.C. at the National Cathedral, and as the autumn afternoon sun bathed the Cathedral in its golden light, the windows [...]

Pretty picture

Now that I have my own computer again, and a derned spiffy one at that, I’d like to return to posting faithspace photography and art. I may need to adjust my template accordingly, but I did design the header up at the top of this page and all of the pictures in it were taken [...]

Bless

…so the sky's gone out.
It's lovely Christmas inside, wet and miserable outside.
A squirrel just went up and pillaged the birdfeeder. No other word for it. Seed flying everywhere, birds tweetering from other branches because they couldn't come near the feeder.
The ducks just sat around clucking and laughing about the whole thing.
Word on the street [...]

Peeve

dear loving flist,
Every time you use “Christian” interchangeably with “conservative
fundamentalist Christians,” you risk getting a sermon from me. We're
not all like that, and if you think those conservative fundamentalist
Christians are annoying to YOU…….
kthx.
-the very socially progressive helcat