Honestly -- find a way to see it. Trust me. Really.
WOW!
But guess what ... when we got back the Anglican World was STILL Turning!
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At least that's what I'm seeing in the blogs which I'm checking tonight with one eye on the Dodgers and Giants (one-one-tie-in-the-5th) wondering if tonight will be Barry Bonds' big night while Louise is out at a parish meeting and I'm home with the dogs.
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So here's what's up with "things Anglican": the ACN folks (Anglican Communion Network) have been meeting in Fort Worth this week and I have happily left all their comings and goings in the capable hands of veteran journalist and colleague Katie Sherrod who covered the ACN pow-wow for Integrity. I understand StandFirmites and Titusoneniners have been live-blogging and video-streaming so if you want a play-by-play do click over there and enjoy.
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If you're looking for the post-game show, however, here's Katie's just-posted-to-her-blog reflection: "And they morph again." DO read it all ... but if you're in a hurry and want to cut-to-the-chase here it is (from Katie's blog):
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The plan is this: The bishops who refuse to go to Lambeth will hold an alternate Lambeth.” The Anglican Communion will split in two. The Common Cause Partners will affiliate themselves with the “pure” Anglican Communion.
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The “old” Anglican Communion with wither away, and the “purified” Anglican Communion will rise triumphant, and have a big tea party in Nigeria every ten years.In the meantime, they hope to persuade TEC to “cease” litigation and come to mediation so they can settle on a plan to let them leave with the property.
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Apparently purity works better when you can take the property with you.
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So there you have it. Is that the "shoe" we were waiting to drop? At this point I'm afraid it's like waiting for the shoes of a centipede to "drop" ... everytime you think you're done another one drops ... and it's the same old shoe!
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(Giants just went ahead 3-1 in the 6th ... bummer!)
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Here's the part of all the ACN saber rattling that really made me wonder, however ... when I read in The Living Church about Bishop Duncan's reference to the Archbishop of Canterbury, "To lose that historic office is a cost of such magnitude that God must be doing a new thing," he said.
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Yes. Yes ... that must be what throwing the Archbishop of Canterbury out with the bathwater of Anglican Comprehensiveness is all about -- it's God "doing a new thing" because God SO typically demonstrates a perferential option for narrow exclusiveness and literal orthodoxy.
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It's what Micah tells us the Lord requires, right?
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Think I'll go back to the ballgame. More to follow, I imagine. Plenty more shoes to come.
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PS -- And then there's Ephraim Radner's resignation from the ACN with this rather extraordinary statement "Bishop Duncan has, in the end, decided to start a new church. He may call it “Anglican” if he wishes, though I do not recognize the name in these kinds of actions that break communion rather than build it up ..."
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But that's blogging better left for another day ... tonight, baseball beckons! (And no, Kevin -- Dodgerism is still not on the "unforgivable sin" list ... I just checked!)
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Dodgers are ontologically incapable of being efficactious bearers of a Giant-like presence. Dodgers, from the artful dodger, a con man. giants, from, like big, and therefore, you know, cooler than a con man crew from LA. and LA, after all, stole our water in the north to let socal metastisize. so, actually, maybe it's good they stole our water. it this state had to ooze out one los angeles type creation, i think it's better, over all, that they just keep it down there under all that smog. think what the basin keeps from seeping out into the rest of the state....
Ah, dear Susan: when will you learn that it is the Giants who are God's Elect!*
[* Ack. More like "long-suffering Israel" ;-/ Oh well: at least 3-1 tonight!]
Go Barry! ("reasonable doubt")
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Oy vey: the Anglican Communion. The more things change, the more they stay the same... (kinda like my beloved Giants ending up in the cellar :-X)
Of course the Cubs are the only team in the National League with a clear religious affiliation. One need only read Lamantations to understand that the Cubs are ancient Hebrews.
(Yes I am a White Sox fan, why do you ask?)
FWIW
jimB
Hey - it's the Yankees, darlings. Everything else is...T-ball! That's this NYer's opinion.
The Dodgers haven't been the same since they left Brooklyn!
Just kidding! Sort of.
Surely tradition and scripture require us to follow the Angels.
uffda51, what about the padres?
Feh. Baseball. Like watching paint dry.
IT
Sweetie, you do not want to talk about the BROOKLYN Dodgers in the Northeast Corridor.
The "joke" that, when told, will still get an entire sports bar to raise a glass of brewskie is this:
Hitler, Stalin and Walter O'Malley (the owner who moved them from Brooklyn to LA) are sitting in a room. You have a gun with two bullets. Whom do you shoot?"
Answer: You shoot O'Malley twice."
So, excuse me while I continue to delight in the Boys of Summer who will always break your heart: The Boston Red Sox.
But, they will do so with class and style - and, always, always, always, with hope.
Unlike . . . well, let's not even go there.
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