This week, I'm taking as advisement Bishop Greg's observation regarding blogs and blackholes. Lambeth is a total farce, and today San Diego puts on one of the nation's largest gay (etc.) pride parades where you will no doubt have the chance to see your Episcopal Diocese of San Diego marching.
Meanwhile, like Greg Griffith over at StandFirm, I'm just trying to raise my kids. Easy to get depressed? You betcha.
So, given the wealth of news available from other sources, the relative dearth of substance you'll find in it, and the depressing nature of it all, I submit to you, dear reader, this week's commentary on Anglicanism. We'll return to normal programming shortly. Enjoy. And keep your chin up.
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Oh, David! Thank you! I had just finished wading through as much as I could absorb from the Stand Firm site and how I needed your Dancing Monkey! After all that I've read coming out of the Lambeth Conference, I found that I just couldn't find the words to articulate, even to myself, how or what I feel about where things stand. My inner Mommy is saying, "Use your words, use your words!" but all I can do is scream into my pillow. It takes me back to when I was very, very pregnant with my second child and found myself in a mighty heated disagreement with a psychiatrist at a KPBS wine and cheese gathering. He had asked me what I did, which at the time was write copy and do voiceover for PSA's for crisis pregnancy centers. Well, he felt very strongly about that and went on at extraordinary great length about how he felt. After awhile, I could see his lips were still moving, but nothing coming out of them was making any sense. That's what this feels like. I'm surrounded by white noise. But the Dancing Monkey grounded me, so thanks.
Glad it helped. 'Gotta laugh so ya don't cry (curse) sometimes.
Two words: "The Psalms."
Yes, David, thanks, indeed. It was a nice break from reading SF, T19 and VOL which made me alternately nauseous, cranky and hysterical!
To get away from As the World Turns at Lambeth for a while, I dove into my recently arrived First Things. A small portion of a piece entitled The Death of Protestant America by Joseph Bottum traced a line in the Episcopal Church from Bishop Pike to Katherine Jefferts Schori and acknowledges the role that feminism has played in the changes in mainline Protestanism. Of Jefferts Schori, he notes, "When she talks about the mission of the Episcopal Church," Bottum writes, "she typically identifies it with the U.N.'s Millenium Development Goals." "Her Yahweh, in other words, is a blend of Norman Vincent Peale and Dag Hammerskjold."
And this snippet, which amused me: "H.L. Mencken is usually credited with dubbing the Episcopal Church of the 1920's 'the Republican Party at prayer.' The Episcopal Church today seems hardly distinguishable from the small portion of American this the National Organization for Women at prayer."
Cheerio!
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