Glenn McDavid

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Following a link from GetReligion, I saw that a Seattle Parish Offers Astrology Workshop.

I am not happy about this. I can handle all sorts of unorthodox thinking in the Episcopal Church. E.g., for decades I have been going to churches that are very welcoming of gays and lesbians, and sometimes have gay and lesbian clergy.

However, this is different. I do not consider astrology to be thinking.

I found this note at GetReligion:

"The Associated Press is making news over presidential candidate John McCain’s statement this past weekend that he is in fact a Baptist despite comments he has made in the past that he is an Episcopalian. The news hook that the AP doesn’t come right out and tell you, other than in the dateline, is that McCain made these comments while he was in South Carolina which happens to have a lot of Baptist voters."

Considering the demographic that McCain has been pandering to lately, he would certainly want to avoid any association with the Episcopal Church.

With mia_mcdavid at her weaving class again today, I went to Church alone. Rather than go back to St. Christopher's, or to one of the other local churches Mia has been writing about, I drove down to Northfield, for the Palm Sunday liturgy at All Saints Church. Our former Senior Associate Priest at St. Christopher's is now Priest-in-Charge there. She has her own show now.

....And she is doing a great job. The church was quite full. It was evident minutes into the liturgy that she is quite comfortable, more relaxed and happy than I had seen her at St. Christopher's for years. It quickly became clear that the feeling is reciprocated. They love her there. Next time I visit I am going to downplay the fact that I am from her former parish....they don't want any suggestion that a connection from the cities might draw her back.

It was the best worship experience I have had since leaving St. Luke's/Evanston, back in '97. In fact, it seemed like a minaturized St. Luke's--this is a much smaller church in physical size. But there was lots of sung liturgy, including sung prayers, and superb music. It was a fine Anglo-Catholic liturgy, without the misogynist and homophobic baggage so often associated with that wing of Anglicanism--again, just like St. Luke's.

I noticed another friend there. One of the choir members, who was the narrator for the passion Gospel and later led (chanting) the prayers, is a Carleton friend. He graduated 20 years after me, but was also a Carleton folk dancer. We met at the '97 College reunion, where some of us old farts from the early '70's dragged out the old folk dance records, and found ourselves joined by these dancers from 20 years later, who told us that the Carleton folk dancers had survived, and had records and pictures going back to our day. Since then folk dancing over all the decades has been a regular Carleton reunion feature. Generally growing old sucks, but being treated as a tribal elder is kind of neat :-)>

Blag Shomhairle. If Irish is truly a living language, you have to be able discuss contemporary issues using it.

With a subtitle like that I was surprised to see picture of a clergyman in the Saint Patrick's Day post. On closer examination the discussion appears to be about the Church of Ireland (Anglican), rather than the Roman Catholic Church. If I can find the time this weekend (hah!) I will try to figure out what it is saying. There a picture of a book with the title Leabhar na hUrnaí Coitinne. A quick look at my Irish Dictionary confirmed my guess that this was the Book of Common Prayer. Quite a change from when what was then the Church of England in Ireland was trying to eradicate the Irish language.

Propers for the Mass. From the Society of King Charles the Martyr.

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A follow-up on a link I posted last week.

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From the Daily Mail via Ted Hewitt on the perrel list.

About the current Anglican crisis. Posted by bohemian72 in episcopal.

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