Lent is early this year. Ash Wednesday is Feb 10. Do you have a good book for Lent? Do your teenagers or college students? I have written The Gargoyle Code and Slubgrip Instructs to be especially good reads. They have a plot line running through them and are broken down into daily readings for Lent. You can get both [...]
The Anglican Church is once again in turmoil, this time over the suspension of the Episcopal Church from the Anglican Communion for a period of three years. Observers of the Anglican scene will feel that the Church of England and her worldwide confederation are engaged in one constant battle after another. Those who are familiar with [...]
OK. Right up front in case anyone is getting all nervous about a priest commenting on politics: This is not an endorsement of Ted Cruz. Stop biting your fingernails. I'm not telling you to vote Republican. I'm not saying Ted Cruz is a great guy or would be a great president. However, I am commenting as [...]
Martin Luther at the Wittenberg Door My article for Imaginative Conservative this week challenges the idea that the Reformation was "a good thing." A Catholic friend of mine is fond of referring to the Protestant Reformation as “the Deformation.” Well, perhaps. Certainly the Reformation in England was a deformation. Henry VII’s stripping of [...]
Presiding Bishop Curry with Bishop Gene Robinson UPDATE: Presiding Bishop Michael Curry of the Episcopal Church has stated that they have no intention of reversing their decision to endorse same sex marriage. The AP reports, In a phone interview from England, where he attended the gathering of top Anglican archbishops, Curry said he told [...]
Episcopal Bishop Marianne Budde of Washington The progressive Episcopal Church of the USA has been suspended from the Worldwide Anglican Communion for three years because of their formal endorsement of same sex marriage. The point of the suspension is to encourage the Episcopalians to reconsider their decision and return to the moral values of historical [...]
Did you think that perhaps the Episcopalians would respond with humility and repentance in the wake of their suspension from the Anglican Communion? Of course not. They have responded openly and bluntly with pride. We could have predicted this. In response to the suspension of the Episcopal Church from the Anglican Communion, immediately the Episcopalians play [...]
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby UPDATED POST When I was an Anglican I remember one of the stories that came out of a Lambeth Conference (the once a decade meeting of all Anglican bishops in Canterbury) An Episcopalian bishop got into an argument with an African over homosexuality. He finally said to the African [...]
In 2004 Dr Irving Weissman, director of the Stanford Institute of Stem Cell Biology and Regnerative Medicine injected brain cells from aborted human fetuses into the developing brains of healthy mice where the cells grew into normal human neurons. The popular press called it he "StuartLittle Experiment"after the children's book character who is a feisty humanoid [...]
Dorothy Day I remember a curmudgeonly priest once shocking me by saying, "Women have a place in the church...on their knees...either scrubbing the floor or praying." Errm. Maybe or maybe not. In fact, although ordination is reserved to men in the Catholic Church, my article for Aletia this week shows that ministry of women [...]