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• Handicapping the Bishop’s Candidates

  In these last few days before the delegates of the Episcopal Diocese of Upper South Carolina choose their eighth Bishop, the tension is palpable. Little knots of people gather around coffee urns or in parking lots whispering, worrying, wondering. The Episcopal Church, as its name implies, takes on the personalities [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 10:42pm EST
  

• Why Recovery.gov Sucks So Badly

  I knew this was going to happen. I told my staff this was going to happen. I told our grants officer this was going to happen. I hate it when I'm right. When my organization received a recovery grant last spring to expand AmeriCorps programs in the Upstate, the staff groused' [...]
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  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:24am EST
  

• The 24th Sunday After Pentecost Year B

  Proper 28B/Ordinary 33B/Pentecost 24 November 15, 2009 From Certainty to Faith Daniel 12:1-3 Hebrews 10:11-25 Mark 13:1-8 I used to run my fingers over its embossed cover. Like a secret cipher, the raised relief contained a hidden universe: where days were years and beasts were kings and numbers didn't add up the way they do' [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 5:22pm EST
  

• The Bishops Candidates: Will They Speak Out Against Uganda?

  The Lambeth Conference, that diennial display of purple that purportedly defines who is Anglican and who is not, made a promise at its 1988 gathering: to “listen pastorally to the experience of homosexual persons and ... to assure them that they are loved by God...” and to “minister pastorally and [...]
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  Posted: November 15, 2009, 2:32pm EST
  

• Allahu Akbar!

  This morning the United States Army said that the suspect in the mass murder at Fort Hood shouted "Allahu Akbar!" before shooting. Of course, yesterday the Army said that Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was dead, but now says he's not quite, so perhaps the Army's grasp of the facts is not yet firm. [...]
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  Posted: November 06, 2009, 9:16am EST
  

• Father Burwell Responds

  Father Burwell has responded to my post in two emails sent last night. Rather than take any of what he said out of context, I will print them in their entirety below. Dear Tim, Thank you for taking the time to get to know me a little bit better today and [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 6:16am EST
  

• The Bishop Candidate: The Very Reverend John B. Burwell Part 5 Lunch at Queen Anne's Revenge

  The Very Reverend John B. Burwell,wrote to me after one of my posts and told me that I had misunderstood him. Some of our email exchange was posted here. We agreed to meet for lunch today to sit down in person and try to understand each other. We met at Queen [...]
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  Posted: November 02, 2009, 10:26pm EST
  

• Is the Boeing 787 an Edsel or a BMW?

  Both of my non-Episcopalian readers are now gone, bored by two solid weeks of all Bishop's race all the time. So now for something completely different: Boeing comes to South Carolina. Like everybody else with a Twitter account my inbox quickly filled up Wednesday with dozens of messages from politicos [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 9:45pm EST