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    Bishop Gene: Gagged, or Gag-making

    This makes me sick to the stomach and sad, but The Lead was kind enough to link here in their post. The Lead The Archbishop of Canterbury has denied the Rt. Rev. Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire permission to preach or preside at the Eucharist during his visits to England this year No word on whether the appearance with Sir Ian McKellen is still planned, or if it already happened, as it wasn’t dated when I blogged about it before.

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    PADS wishlist – donations accepted

    The shelters are getting ready to shut down for the season, but next fall they could use some donations from our food pantry at St Nicholas Episcopal: Journeys from PADS to HOPE, Journeys, PADS, HOPE, Homeless, Homelessness, Charity, Non-for-profit, Shelter, Palatine, Northwest Suburbs Cook County, Fundraising, Donations, Helping the Poor

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    Bishop Gene Sadly Reports

    According to a comment from Fr. Jake’s place, Bishop of New Hampshire V. Gene Robinson has been advised that he will not have the Archbishop’s permission to preach or celebrate the Eucharist while in England during the Lambeth conference – the conference he was pointedly not invited to attend. This was at a service at a London-area church attended by one of Jake’s commenters. If true, I’ve lost much respect for the ABC. HaloScan.com – Comments

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    Washington State Town Effectively Bans Homeless Camps

    Churches in Western Washington, in towns like Olympia and Tumwater, have been taking turns hosting a homeless camp called Camp Quixote over the last year or so. Basically, the homeless are housed in church parking lots in an organized fashion, with access to the church buildings at times for rest rooms, kitchen and washing facilities. After a few months, they move on to the next location. It’s a great way for churches to cooperate with each other – there’s an Episcopal church, a Unitarian Universalist community, and other denominations. But the nearby town of Lacey, WA decided that they would…

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    Unnatural Natural Women

    Say what you like about the religion, it’s not natural for women’s faces to be this lean. Even for nursing mothers, these women look like they’re not getting enough to eat. The one in the middle is becoming famous on Flickr for that monobrow, by the way. Their body language is weirdly out of synch with modern life, too. It’s as if they’ve adopted some kind of backwards-engineered emulation of the way women hold their bodies in old, old photographs from the pioneer days. They also remind me of the faces of hardscrabble farmers’ wives from the 30’s Dustbowl photographs…

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    FLDS Polygamists: No Records of Births, Deaths, Abuse

    One thing to remember: the FLDS compounds are as self-sufficient as possible. Medical care is handled “inhouse.” State mandated reporter laws for suspected abuse cases and records keeping: forget about it. More Clarity About Abuse, Intermarriage, Child Breeders, and the Fundamentalist Church of Later Day Saints | PEEK | AlterNet