Another Addition

Confessions of A Carioca is a blog from a priest in the Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin somewhere to the north of Laodicea. Considering what's going on lately, I figured I might as well have a look inside.

Fun tidbits:

1. "The Elizabethan Settlement was inherently unstable, sort of like the early versions of Windows. Now we're into a system crash, XP doesn't seem to have the answer, and Vista hasn't been released yet."

2. "[The liberals] are simultaneously correct and clueless. (If I knew how to say that in Latin, I surely would!)"

3. (On Mark Lawrence, Bishop Coadjutor-Elect of South Carolina) "We will miss him in San Joaquin, be he will take his place in the councils of the church in a powerful and effective way, and be a salubrious influence on the emerging re-invented Anglicanism."

4. "Then there was the short-lived Book of Daniel, which was overtly Episcopalian, and I actually kind of enjoyed. But it was also bizarrely Episcopalian, an exaggerated caricature of every weird thing the Episcopal Church is currently into, which is no mean feat, since the Episcopal Church is currently into some very bizarre and weird things."

5. It's All About Ecclesiology, Stupid

6. Anecdotal Taxonomy

I occupy the crack between the third and fourth category apparently...

7. "I am particularly troubled by the [Presiding] Bishop's assent to the interviewer's characterization of her position that other religions are "parallel" routes to God for those of "another culture and language." This is not only a theological train wreck (the Church being "catholic"--i.e. universal--and all), it's elitist and racist. What language or cultural vocabulary does one have to be fluent in in order to qualify to be a Christian?"

8. "Consequently, my life as an Episcopalian--working on three-and-half decades--has alway been marked by constant chagrin over the public policy resolutions passed by General Convention. It's not only that I disagree with the vast majority of them on the basis of their actual content, which I do. It's that I am opposed to any public policy resolutions as a matter of principle." (It's OK. He's talking about the praegustatory nature of the Church...)

9. On the Due Observance of Sunday

Oh, it's all good. I disagree with some of it, of course. But it's well-written and usually well-considered. It's a good thing to read if you've just read the latest salvo from his Ordinary.