😕 Wish I could send your our weekend rain this week, as we’ll be driving to Maine in it and can’t play outside with the grands. But you plight gives me pause, and cause to appreciate it when it falls.
My Church Doesn’t Know What to Do Anymore [Click] “Last year was hard, but at least the answers were straightforward.” Elizabeth Felicetti is the rector of St. David’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia.
I hear many of the same concerns and struggles from the clergy I sit with in spiritual guidance. It’s even harder for the Methodist clergy, who are struggling with their denomination’s polarisation around gay clergy. Here in the Northeast, the Methodists are (en masse) defying their National church and ordaining gay clergy as well as being open and affirming congregations. They could lose their church buildings over it, and they’re doing it anyway…much to their credit. That was already a brewing issue before the pandemic hit, and some conservatives left the denomination. All the Covid restrictions, and now lack thereof, are shrinking the ranks further. When all is said and done, the faithful remnant may be the most authentic the Church has ever had. I hope we can begin to respect them for it instead of always casting aspersions (drawn from fundamentalists…which they are not).
The first members of my mother's family to settle in North America were Lutherans; starting with the second generation and for several generations thereafter they were Methodists. Reading about the religious and legal aspects of those days, coupled with what I remember of my grandfather, gave me considerable empathy, and I think understanding, of them. I remember reading of an Amish person, being asked about the various schisms of his church, saying "only good wood splits."
Did I ever tell you my Latin Mass joke? (From an Episcopal priest who had studied to become a Jesuit). It is far better told than written, but I think I can write it well enough.
Now that our atmospheric rivulet has passed through, there is no rain in the ten-day forecast.
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DeleteWish I could send your our weekend rain this week, as we’ll be driving to Maine in it and can’t play outside with the grands. But you plight gives me pause, and cause to appreciate it when it falls.
[Federal] Judge Wants to Know Who’s Bankrolling Nunes Family Farm’s Libel Suit [Click] They claim they don’t know; judge figures that’s odd.
ReplyDeleteWho Messed Up Devin Nunes’ Campaign Records This Bad? His Mom. [Click] Picky, picky, picky; it has only been going on for seventeen years.
DeleteVerrrrrry innnteresting.
DeleteMy Church Doesn’t Know What to Do Anymore [Click] “Last year was hard, but at least the answers were straightforward.” Elizabeth Felicetti is the rector of St. David’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, Virginia.
ReplyDeleteIt isn't at all comparable, but I can't help thinking of how Charlemagne destroyed the native religion of the Saxons.
DeleteI hear many of the same concerns and struggles from the clergy I sit with in spiritual guidance. It’s even harder for the Methodist clergy, who are struggling with their denomination’s polarisation around gay clergy. Here in the Northeast, the Methodists are (en masse) defying their National church and ordaining gay clergy as well as being open and affirming congregations. They could lose their church buildings over it, and they’re doing it anyway…much to their credit. That was already a brewing issue before the pandemic hit, and some conservatives left the denomination. All the Covid restrictions, and now lack thereof, are shrinking the ranks further.
DeleteWhen all is said and done, the faithful remnant may be the most authentic the Church has ever had. I hope we can begin to respect them for it instead of always casting aspersions (drawn from fundamentalists…which they are not).
The first members of my mother's family to settle in North America were Lutherans; starting with the second generation and for several generations thereafter they were Methodists. Reading about the religious and legal aspects of those days, coupled with what I remember of my grandfather, gave me considerable empathy, and I think understanding, of them. I remember reading of an Amish person, being asked about the various schisms of his church, saying "only good wood splits."
DeleteDid I ever tell you my Latin Mass joke? (From an Episcopal priest who had studied to become a Jesuit). It is far better told than written, but I think I can write it well enough.
DeleteI don't think so. Do tell!
DeleteJoe Manchin pushes for climate cuts even as West Virginia battered by crisis [Click] Hard to imagine how it could be much worse. But I suppose I probably just have an underactive imagination.
ReplyDeleteI recall the old chestnut that in WVa the schools teach the 3 R's: Readin', Ritin', and Route 35 (the way to Cincinati).
DeleteThe dirty dozen: meet America’s top climate villains [Click]
ReplyDeleteContainer ships sent to wait in Los Angeles when they could be unloaded quickly in Oakland. [Click]
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