June 18, 2013
Why Pharisees Matter
Derek Leman, Messianic Jewish Musings
Ulysses in Three Minutes
Anne Tyrrell, Paul Kennedy and Robert Gogan, Irish Times
June 13, 2013
Last month I wrote about the litigation lottery in California, in which a Kern County judge ruled against two Anglican parishes (St. Paul’s in Bakersfield, and St. Michael’s in Ridgecrest) that as a matter of law, their attempt to disaffiliate from ECUSA was invalid, while a Tulare County judge ruled—on the same set of facts—that there were disputed issues about the withdrawal of St. John’s, in Porterville, which would require a full trial....
- Last month I wrote about the litigation lottery in California, in which a Kern County judge ruled against two Anglican parishes (St. Paul's in Bakersfield, and St. Michael's in Ridgecrest) that as a matter of law, their attempt to disaffiliate from ECUSA was invalid, while a Tulare County judge ruled -- on the same set of facts -- that there were disputed issues about the withdrawal of St. John's, in Porterville, which would require a full trial....
June 7, 2013
1) Surveillance state revelations force Americans to ask what it means to live in a Democracy
U.S. Is Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Calls, New York Times (Charlie Savage and Edward Wyatt)
June 5, 2013
[I’m bumping this for reasons which are known to some—just a little flashback . . . ]
In my last lengthy article about the Upper South Carolina bishop election [and this one is another long one] I tried hard to stay away from theology and focus on simply what I saw as the needs of the diocese. Others chimed in and...[I’m bumping this for reasons which are known to some—just a little flashback . . . ]
Well, it’s a sign of my level of interest that I had forgotten that today was the day of the consecration of the Bishop of Upper South Carolina.At any rate, much—much, much, much, much—was made over the past many months of the 1700 people who were going to be attending Bishop Waldo’s consecration at Christ Church,...
June 4, 2013
Robert Oscar Lopez of the California State University system reflects on the French protests against “gay marriage.” What he sees is an encouraging rebuttal to the propaganda that family redefinition is historically inevitable and the product of an enlightened populace.
The French resistance to same-sex marriage has...
June 3, 2013
1) Tornadoes and wildfires threaten as we remember the grace and mercy of an omnipotent God
‘Unpredictable’ storm in Oklahoma turned on three chasers, CNN (Jake Carpenter and Catherine E. Shoichet)...
June 1, 2013
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America managed yesterday to declare to all the world that it is no longer a serious church (if anyone had any doubts). It’s not just that it is in thrall to the gay rights movement. It beclowned itself by pulling a Schori:
A North Hollywood theology professor ordained just two years ago...
May 28, 2013
The Episcopal Church’s legal battles over property spawned a number of contradictory rulings and judgments over the past few weeks.
A Superior Court in Southern California has ordered a breakaway parish to turn over its property to the diocese of Los Angeles; the Virginia Supreme Court handed down a mixed ruling allowing a breakaway parish to keep its cash but not its property; while the Northern California Superior Court has rejected the claim that as a matter of law a diocese may...