March 31, 2007

Stupid Chess

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In his radio address today, President Bush repeated his promise to veto any bill providing additional funding for the Iraq war if it include...
March 30, 2007

“Bovine Sue”

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Sue Boulden, a widely-known activist for various causes, particularly for an inclusive Episcopal Church, died on March 27, 2007, on the eve ...
March 18, 2007

Reflections on the Mark Lawrence Affair

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Three days after the announcement of the failure of the Very Rev. Mark Lawrence to achieve the consents necessary to be consecrated Bishop o...
March 15, 2007

Lawrence Bid Fails

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Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori delivered the news to the Diocese of South Carolina this afternoon that its bishop-elect, the Ver...

And the correct date is …, Part II

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On March 12, Louie Crew provided something of an explanation for the confusion about the deadline date for sending of consents from standin...
March 14, 2007

Some Mathematical Reflections on Communion

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Mark Harris wrote a post on his blog the other day about Bishop David Bena’s recent move from The Episcopal Church to the Convocation for A...
March 8, 2007

Unconvinced

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Yesterday, March 7, five days before the deadline for obtaining adequate consents from standing committees to make him a bishop, Mark Lawren...
March 7, 2007

Down to the Wire

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About five days remain for the Very Rev. Mark Lawrence to collect consents from an additional 10 standing committees (at last public count,...
March 4, 2007

And the correct date is …

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According to an announcement reported yesterday from the Rev. J. Haden McCormick, president of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Sou...
March 3, 2007

Can We Trust Our Bishops?

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Probably not. That is, we likely cannot rely on the House of Bishops of The Episcopal Church to resist the demands of the Anglican primates...
February 28, 2007

Arkansas’s

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I just heard a story on NPR’s “All Things Considered” about a resolution that has been introduced in the Arkansas legislature asserting tha...

Anglican Ambiguity

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I was reading Jim Naughton's latest blog post this morning and thinking about the communiqués we have come to expect from meetings of...
February 22, 2007

Lambeth 1998 1.10

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I have been feeling guilty for not having written more analysis of the communiqué that emerged from the primates’ meeting in Tanzania earli...
February 20, 2007

A New Urgency

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The question of consents for Mark Lawrence’s consecration pretty much dropped off The Episcopal Church radar screen for the past week or so....
February 18, 2007

Last Minute Thoughts on Consents

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It was with a great sense of relief last night that I posted my essay on the recent letter from the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Sou...
February 17, 2007

The Consents Question, Again

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The question of consents for the consecration of the Very Rev. Mark Lawrence as Bishop of South Carolina is again in the news. Episcopal New...