• Mini-Posts

    links for 2007-03-04

    Akinola the Pope? Bless Louie Crew and his email archives. (tags: LouisCrew Archives Anglican Akinola) Integrate your WordPress blog with StumbleUpon (tags: StumbleUpon WordPress)

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Total Lunar Eclipse, March 3, 2007

    Total Lunar Eclipse, March 3, 2007 Here's a great webcast resource of the total lunar eclipse – it has links to a bunch of different feeds, and auto-refreshes.  The sky dragon has taken a bite out of the moon, and will soon be mistaking our cloud-ridden homeworld for a glass of milk. Flee! To the starboats! Flee!  UPDATE: Color change – now nearly total? Even redder – pretty much looks total… [tags]Lunar Eclipse[/tags] 

  • Hot Off The Presses - Religion

    Strict Father Sky Vs. Nurturing Mother Earth

    What was that just now about parenting models being the framework for every kind of ideological framework?  Evangelicals seek to oust leader over global warming | Chicago Tribune WASHINGTON — More than two dozen evangelical leaders are seeking the ouster of Rev. Richard Cizik from the National Association of Evangelicals because of his "relentless campaign" against global warming Yeah. And that bit about Falwell preaching that global warming is a myth is referenced. He should go evangelize the Inuit for a year, that guy, and walk a mile in their mukluks. Or travel 1200 miles by dogsled, like this group.…

  • Episcopal - Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics - Religion

    Remember The Theory of Everything

    I already knew this, but it bears repeating:   Our view of God, strict or nurturing, divides us – Nashville, Tennessee – Saturday, 03/03/07 – Tennessean.com A battle of two moralities is roaring in this country — really, a battle between two views of God — and it explains nearly everything, and nearly everyone ignores it. An unspoken conflict of attitudes toward parenting — Strict Parent model vs. Nurturing Parent — shapes the showdown between conservatives and liberals across the board, whether at worship, in Congress or on the Iraq war.   [tags]God, Nurturing Parent, Strict Parent, liberals, conservatives[/tags] 

  • Hot Off The Presses - Politics, Schmolitics

    The Injustice Department Firings

    The juicy bit: the former New Mexico US Attorney has stated that he was pressured to investigate Democrats before the November elections.  Because, after the elections, they'd be in a much better position to investigate political shenanigans and inappropriate White House meddling with the Justice Department. Now they have less than two years to really screw things up, appointments-wise.  White House Backed U.S. Attorney Firings, Officials Say – washingtonpost.com Since the mass firings were carried out three months ago, Justice Department officials have consistently portrayed them as personnel decisions based on the prosecutors' "performance-related" problems. But, yesterday, officials acknowledged that…

  • Books - Uncategorical Weirdness

    Needful Things: Prayers and Supplications

    I keep meaning to purchase the New Zealand Prayer Book because it’s got some amazingly beautiful and poetic liturgy in it. Also, things like the Night Prayer and little gems like this: For People Critically Ill, or Facing Great Uncertainty God of the present moment, God who in Jesus stills the stormand soothes the frantic heart;bring hope and courage to N,as s/he/they wait/s in uncertainty.Bring hope that you will make her/him/them the equalof whatever lies ahead.Bring her/him/them courage to endure what cannot be avoided,for your will is health and wholeness;you are God, and we need you. Good, eh? Speaking of…

  • Mini-Posts

    links for 2007-03-01

    This is Zimbabwe » Blog Archive » Shameful silence on Nolbert Kunonga, Anglican Bishop of Harare His Disgrace, the Bishop – it’s guys like this that criticize the “unbiblical” gospel of inclusion in the Episcopal Church. Yeah. Immoral authority. (tags: Anglican schism)