February 2006
- Well shriven? (28 Feb 06)
Shrove Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday which begins Lent. It is a day of penitence to clean the soul and a day of celebration as the last chance ...
- A builder of bridges (27 Feb 06)
Titusonenine quotes Andrew Carey (Church of England Newspaper 6 Jan 2006 ) who has some proposals on how to behave when we are facing a stand-off about sexuality (or anything ...
- My days are swift (25 Feb 06)
My cousin Julie Ann McKinlay Greaves died yesterday after a prolonged struggle with cancer. She was 47. I did not know her very well as we've lived a long distance ...
- Sense from Scotland (23 Feb 06)
It seems just possible that alongside their Episcopal sisters and brothers the good people of the (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland may reach a sensible position on civil partnerships and by ...
- Everything to the maximum (23 Feb 06)
The Synod of the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne has been unable to accept any of the candidates proposed by its board of nominators for election as Archbishop. A deadlocked election ...
- California candidates (21 Feb 06)
In a press release Integrity has welcome the inclusion of a gay man (the Very Rev. Robert Taylor) and a lesbian (the Rev. Bonnie Perry) in the list of candidates ...
- Robert and Euphemia, Donald and Jane (19 Feb 06)
This is a picture of the 50th wedding anniversary celebration of Robert and Euphemia McKinlay at Clifton Park Otago New Zealand in 1919. Robert and Euphemia and their 10 ...
- York on Gitmo (19 Feb 06)
The Independent (18 Feb) reports that the Archbishop of York the Most Revd. and Rt Hon. Dr John Sentamu has passionately attacked American refusal to close the its prison camps ...
- Mwamba's message of maturity (18 Feb 06)
The Rt. Revd. Trevor Mwamba Anglican Bishop of Botswana told a news conference in Cape Town on 2 February 2006 that the church needed to re-discover its mission to deal ...
- Signaling the existance of gay Nigerians (17 Feb 06)
The crazy thing is that the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion) should be so naïve as to be caught up in support for the politically motivated actions of the Nigerian ...
- It's nonsense, but . . . (16 Feb 06)
I passed 8th grade Math[Just as well in my job!]"Congratulations you got 10/10 correct!"Could you pass 8th grade Math? ...
- Home grown Valentine (14 Feb 06)
Red roses aren't a cliché when they come from your own garden (tho' the picture's from the Web). There's a vase of these glorious 'Mister Lincoln' blooms on my office ...
- For the birds (12 Feb 06)
St. Valentine's Day is Tuesday. But James and I are taking advantage of the weekend for a small celebration today. There are numerous legends and accounts of St. Valentine. Wikipedia ...
- Homosexuality and Porvoo (12 Feb 06)
On 27 October 2005 the Church Assembly (Kyrkomötet) of the Church of Sweden decided that a special order of service for the blessing of a registered partnership should be introduced. ...
- Nigerian disgrace (11 Feb 06)
The Same Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Bill 2006 now before the Nigerian parliament will as its title implies prohibit same-sex marriage. That is regretable but no different to the situation in ...
- The weakness of violence (11 Feb 06)
Today's newspapers are full of column after column of analysis and punditry about those cartoons and the response to them. It's hard to know whether it is Really Important or ...
- Mr Thorpe and Mr Cowdrey (06 Feb 06)
The always interesting Mr Thorpe is back at work again. I wish him success in the Commonwealth Games. Meanwhile a real hero for the games seems likely to be Matthew ...
- Two Dorothys (06 Feb 06)
Today is the feast of St. Dorothy; not a day well noted in church calendars. She is probably apocryphal and her cult was suppressed by the Vatican a decade ago. ...
- Memed? (05 Feb 06)
Geek boi tags me with this so . . . [Read this to work out whether the following is a meme or not]Remove the blog in the top spot from ...
- Changing Attitude Australia? (05 Feb 06)
Philip Bewley student at Trinity College Theological School in Melbourne and Dr Peter Sherlock post doctoral fellow in history at Melbourne University are launching a new Changing Attitude network in ...
- The King and the Clown (05 Feb 06)
I've been reading reviews of Lee Joon Ik's Korean movie hit Wangeui Namja ("The King and the Clown" ) in Bloomberg.com Hancinema.net (the best written and most interesting) Korea Times ...
- Faith filled uncertainty (04 Feb 06)
There's already quite of lot of commentary on a long article by Peter Slevin in the Washington Post (2 Feb.) about the views of John Danforth lifelong Republican Episcopal priest ...
- Anyone offended? (04 Feb 06)
Ship of Fools has been running a competition for the funniest and the most offensive relgious jokes with the results decided by poll; 951 jokes were submitted of which 82 ...
- Salaried voting power (03 Feb 06)
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the Anglican Diocese of Sydney will ordain 45 (male) deacons this week. Each will be appointed to a "living" within the Sydney church that ...
- Lessons in unfamiliar terms (01 Feb 06)
It takes a long time for the average over-intellectualized person to realize that in this particular sphere of reality he must be prepared to receive illumination from the most unexpected ...
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