It’s always fun recognizing someone you “know” in a news item: Blogger exposes life on the Underground – Yahoo News LONDON Reuters – Annie Moles blog about the London Underground rail system began as a New Years resolution to teach herself how to make an Internet Web site and has blossomed into a popular slice of commuter life. She’s been blogging just a bit longer than I have, but she’s made a much more brilliant success of it; Annie Mole’s Going Underground covers pretty much one topic, and covers it extremely well. Actually, it covers going out and having fun…
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Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Science geeks for Jesus! By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 1 May ’08, 6.35pm CDT PST Ginny I can has iPhone?
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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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Anglican Journal: Venables predicts end of Anglican Communion Right, right. The schismatic faction is open to the idea of divorce and closed to the idea of inclusivity. Yet the Founder opposed divorce and said nothing about excluding anybody.
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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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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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From the Obama Campaign Flickr Stream – it looks like there was a friendly little B-Ball game between Obama and some Marines in Indiana. One of the comments on its Flickr page reads: “That’s the next President of the United States you’re about to foul!” Via: Flickr Title: 25April2008_BBall5 By: Barack Obama Originally uploaded: 26 Apr ’08, 10.48am CDT PST
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Archbishop of York Dr. John Sentamu, collarless, in front of Yorkminster. BBC NEWS | UK | Archbishop leads Zimbabwe protest The Archbishop of York has urged members of Zimbabwe’s security forces not to prop up Robert Mugabe’s regime. Dr John Sentamu, one of the most senior members of the Anglican church, is leading a day of fasting and prayer in support of the people of Zimbabwe. He urged the army and police not to “terrorise the ordinary citizens”. In December, Dr Sentamu cut up his clerical collar on television and said he would not replace it until President Mugabe was…
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A beautifully reworked psalm for night prayer from the Comments section of Fr Jake’s Place
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Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Brunch at Brass Brewpub By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 27 Apr ’08, 12.32pm CDT PST Ginny I can has iPhone?