May 19, 2008

Realignment Reconsidered

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The various groups allied as Via Media USA are notable for quite different reasons. The Episcopal Forum of South Carolina , for example, ha...
May 14, 2008

A Pittsburgh Conversation

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With a vote construed as a mechanism to remove the Diocese of Pittsburgh from The Episcopal Church less than half a year away and a real pos...
May 9, 2008

The Ignorant Vote

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Hillary Clinton is trying desperately to make the case that she is more electable than Barack Obama . I doubt this is true; Clinton had wha...
April 23, 2008

Has Anyone Looked at the Numbers?

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All news outlets are reporting that Hillary Clinton beat Barack Obama in Pennsylvania’s Democratic presidential primary by 10%. This is sign...
April 9, 2008

Even I Am Not That Paranoid

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In his introduction to the February-March issue of Trinity , the house organ of the Diocese of Pittsburgh, Bishop Robert Duncan’s introducto...
March 31, 2008

A New Service

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A new service aimed at Pittsburgh Episcopalians is being launched today. It should also be of interest to Episcopalians elsewhere. Specifica...
March 29, 2008

Is Obama Applying for the Wrong Job?

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Pennsylvania is receiving a lot of attention from the candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination. The battle for votes in the up...
March 19, 2008

A Punctuation Oddity

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Having written several rather serious posts of late, perhaps it’s time for some comic relief, or something completely different, anyway. In ...
March 17, 2008

Legal Matters

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In an earlier post , I analyzed Bishop Robert Duncan’s letter to the Presiding Bishop intended to prevent him from being deposed by the Hous...

Duncan’s Defense

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Below is the letter from Bishop Robert Duncan referred to in my post of earlier today, “ Duncan Responds .” It is instructive to analyze the...

Duncan Responds

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The Diocese of Pittsburgh today released a letter from Bishop Robert Duncan to Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori dated March 14, ...
March 12, 2008

Random Linguistic Oddities

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Certain English words have multiple meanings, some of which can be virtual opposites of one another. “Sanction” is one of these, which can ...
March 3, 2008

Playing by the Rules?

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NOTE: I have been following the presidential primaries closely, but I haven’t had much time to comment on them. Tomorrow, however, could be...
February 10, 2008

The Pittsburgh Laity Speaks

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An article in yesterday’s Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described an open letter from laypeople in the Diocese of Pittsburgh supporting Bishop Ro...
February 9, 2008

What to Call Her

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NPR carried a report yesterday of another school shooting, this one at a Baton Rouge vocational school. The reporter rather clumsily explain...
January 11, 2008

What Didn’t Happen

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That the Title IV Review Committee concluded that the former San Joaquin bishop, John-David Schofield, has abandoned the communion of The E...