Category Archives: Centrists

Butler Bass: Post-Modern Progressives

Posted on April 21, 2009 by

Diana Butler Bass has another great essay up – this time she tries to explain why the old categories of “liberal” and “conservative” are failing as we try to describe what is starting to take root in theological and ecclesiastical … Continue reading →

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Bishop Whalon reflects on the proposed Anglican Covenant

Posted on April 20, 2009 by

There’s a wonderful essay posted by Bishop Whalon on his reflections regarding the proposed Anglican Covenant. It’s motivated in part by wanting to have something for the Anglican Consultative Council which is meeting this month, but it’s driven (it seems … Continue reading →

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Jesus’ silence and the questions facing the Communion

Posted on April 9, 2009 by

Wonderful post by Ben Myers entitled “Alfred Hitchcock, the Church, and the silence of Jesus” of which this is just a part: “In his remarkable book, Christ on Trial, Rowan Williams suggests that what we mean when we speak of … Continue reading →

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Stop scapegoating the “other”

Posted on April 3, 2009 by

I’ve written here before of the danger of trying to find ways to blame others for the tensions that exist in society and personal relationships. Some of the most noxious examples of the last century were the ways that anti-semitism … Continue reading →

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Reading the tea leaves, what the Bishop of Rochester’s surprise retirement signifies

Posted on March 29, 2009 by

I’ve tried to avoid talking about the internal politics of the Anglican Communion for the last year or so. My doing so wasn’t helping resolve things at all, and it wasn’t good for the people that I serve in ministry. … Continue reading →

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Human mental chaotic metastates – the Brain is Anglican!

Posted on March 20, 2009 by

This is just cool. Apparently there’s a recent study that finds that human mind (biologically speaking) functions by existing in a meta-stable equilibrium state that is just bordering between total chaos and organization. The equilibrium state is a critical phenomenon! … Continue reading →

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Wintertime in Phoenix

Posted on January 13, 2009 by

I woke up this morning and the bedroom was 70 degrees. So I climbed out of bed, wearing my warm sleep pants, turtleneck and thick socks and added a fleece vest, slippers and a warm robe. It’s good to be … Continue reading →

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A Place to Know the Other

Posted on November 3, 2008 by

As I write this message there are less than 24 hours until the early results of the 2008 Presidential election are to be announced. We don’t know who is going to be elected whether to the Presidency or to a … Continue reading →

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Andrew Brown: The discussion of religious differences online is not a game | Technology | The Guardian

Posted on August 16, 2008 by

Andrew Brown has written an extraordinarily helpful piece about the effect that online discourse is having on our common-life in the Church and in the State. He focuses on the effects the discourse is having on religious discussion but his … Continue reading →

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Jeremy Taylor

Posted on August 13, 2008 by

Today the Episcopal Church is observing the feast of Bishop Jeremy Taylor. I was scanning through his biographical details, which are primarily concerned with his role as a royalist and traditional Anglican during the time of Cromwell’s protectorate, and his … Continue reading →

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