Trinity Episcopal Church (pictured above) and Christ the King (couldn't find a picture) -- both in Santa Barbara, CA -- are featured in this CNN profile story . I thought they did a good, measured job of presenting two perspectives and I appreciated both Brian Cox and Mark Asman as able representatives of their points of view.
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I note with a certain degree of personal irony that it was Trinity, Santa Barbara I spent my adolescence avoiding attending and it was Christ the King where I spent my early years back-in-the-church going to Cursillo team meetings -- and now Trinity has become a beacon of welcome and vision while former Cursillo colleagues are on CNN using pointing out what that my relationship and vocation are "an abomination."
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My, my, my!
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And now, back to our regularly scheduled sermon writing.
"I note with a certain degree of personal irony that it was Trinity, Santa Barbara I spent my adolescence avoiding attending and it was Christ the King where I spent my early years back-in-the-church going to Cursillo team meetings -- and now Trinity has become a beacon of welcome and vision while former Cursillo colleagues are on CNN using pointing out what that my relationship and vocation are "an abomination.""
ReplyDeleteIrony on irony. I rather wonder how anyone can experience Cursillo and still talk of "abomination" and a godly priest in the same paragraph.
::sigh::
FWIW
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