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Monthly Archives: January 2007
God and gorillas | Salon Books
Well – here’s an interesting bit of research into human beings and religion that I’d not heard of until today: Link: God and gorillas | Salon Books. Every human culture has believed in spirits, gods or some other divine being. … Continue reading
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On Retreat…
I’m off this afternoon to take part in my first presbyter retreat here in the Diocese of Arizona. We’re staying at the Diocesan Camp and Retreat Center (Chapel Rock). It’s my first visit there and I’m looking forward to exploring. … Continue reading
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New Climate Report Too Rosy, Experts Say
I don’t know if this will get a lot of coverage today or not now that it seems that most of the mass media news is focussing on the US Presidential election that is 23 months away… “(AP) — Later … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change
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Adobe Releases PDF to the World
Interesting news this morning: “In 1993 Adobe published the full specifications for its Portable Document Format, or PDF, granting royalty free license to those who chose to build PDF tools into their applications, and helping PDF to become a de-facto … Continue reading
Posted in General Convention, Web/Tech
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Who relates to who in the New Testament?
Check this out – it’s a web applet that takes a text and constructs the social relationships between the names mentioned in the text. Originally it was meant for mapping out novels, but someone has run the program on the … Continue reading
How come the Lutheran’s don’t get to play along?
Link: Wot, no schism? Who let Lutherans off?. There is almost no reason at all for the ECLA to have avoided the ‘righteous’ hammering that has been dished out to the Episcopal Church in the USA. It has always surprised … Continue reading
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Rumors of News
The blogsphere has been lit up overnight with the news that was posted on The Living Church’s website. Bishop Bob Duncan has been invited to be present at the Primates meeting in Tanzania next month. (Or, to be more accurate, … Continue reading
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My 2007 Lenten Discipline
It’s getting to be time to start planning how I shall observe Lent. Usually I try to pick up an extra spiritual habit rather than put something aside – though I’ve made exceptions over the years. This year I’ve pretty … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Religion
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Daily Episcopalian: The gay adoption issue in the UK
Jim Naughton has posted an article about an emerging British controversy over whether or not adoption agencies can legitimately discriminate against same-gender couples. Newly adopted British law says “no”. The Roman Catholic Church in Britain has said that if this … Continue reading
Posted in Centrists, Religion
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Sermon for Epiphany 3c 2007
This sermon was preached at Trinity Cathedral's 2007 Annual Meeting. It speaks about God's action of inclusion for all people into the Kingdom of God, our Cathedral's calling to bring the gospel to the people of our community and a … Continue reading
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