waiting

Last night while driving home after a cupcake baking party I happened to hear the words of one of my favorite Christmas hymns: O Holy Night.  [Thanks, radio station that hits the Xmas button the second Halloween is over.]  This week has entailed a few conversations about why I and others “do not appreciate” closed [...]

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relativity

I really dislike John Hagee’s message of damnation for the world, but when I was younger and subjected to his hour of preaching and self-promotion each Sunday morning before actually going to services and Sunday School at our church, I did enjoy when he had one particular guest preacher: David Ring, an adult with cerebral [...]

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difference in perspective

I’ve realized I have a hard time understanding people who don’t seek to be an active part of church.  I don’t mean agnostics, atheists, lapsed anythings, and people who otherwise have little to no desire to be part of a church.  I mean people who actually attend church.  People for whom church is important enough [...]

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wait, what?

There’s plenty of WTF? to go around in this post. I wish I could say I cannot believe what is happening, but given recent actions truly I should not be surprised.  ENS has covered the visit of The Rev. Canon Kenneth Kearon, secretary general of the Anglican Communion to the Executive Council of The Episcopal [...]

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set on HIGH

I went to a local Greek Orthodox festival today.  Good thing I see spending money at cultural orthodox festivals as a good use of money, because I am one broke lady until Tuesday.  The food was good (though overpriced for small portions) and to my delight, icons were available.  I picked up a good ol’ [...]

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i’ve got your reynolds wrap right here

New rule for Anglican Communion disagreements: anybody who seriously uses the phrase “the gay agenda” automatically loses. There is no gay agenda.  What people who use this term are talking about is a conspiracy by non-heterosexuals and their allies to systematically desecrate the culture as presently known. [We're not going to discuss how the culture [...]

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alright ok uh-huh amen

As a result of my interest in ecumenical dialogue (particularly Episcopal/Anglican-Roman Catholic), I read a lot of blogs, books, and columns written by non-Episcopalians: some written by former Episcopalians turned Roman Catholic, some who have always identified as Roman Catholic, some who seek to change the Roman Catholic church, some who think the Roman Catholic [...]

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a few too many letters for a four-letter word

Evangelism.  For many people (and in many ways I include myself) if you ask people to participate in evangelism, you might as well have asked those same people to squeeze a big fat steaming turd in their bare hands. I think it started back several months ago when I was listening to an episode of [...]

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uttered at a bat mitzvah

While talking to a group of middle-aged Jewish ladies at a bat mitzvah over the weekend, I overhear from my friend A: A: “Nah, she won’t work.  She’s Christian and very religious.” me: “Who, me?” A: “Yes, you.” me: “True.” lady number one: “Oy, no nice Jewish boys for you.” me: “OH!  Well, I and [...]

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school’s out for summer (well, june…)

School’s out until July and with my scheduled surgery (now cancelled) this week and “vacation” at the end of June, I’m off the EV schedule for June.  Also, youth group is out for the summer.  I’m not sure what to do with myself!  Usually at this point on Sunday evening I’m avoiding the prospect of [...]

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