Nate Knows Nada

There’s a site of U2 sermons! What’s more, Cowley is going to publish them later this year, with the funds going to TASO, an African AIDS charity.

Awesome!

“I refuse to be shaken from the fold. It’s my God, too, my Bible, my church, my faith, it chose me. But it does not make me “chosen” in a way that would exclude others. I hope it makes me eager to recognize the good, and the holy, wherever I encounter it.”
– Kathleen Norris, Amazing Grace

…for more on the Anglicanism discussion than you might want to know, check out The Witness. This article by Bill Countryman puts the meta-conflict into great perspective.

One thing I might say. A friend wrote me this:”Thanks for turning me on to your web log: I enjoyed reading your comments on the current rather messy situation in–as the conservatives always say–“our beloved Episcopal Church.” I very largely agree with you. Unfortunately, the loud gay caucus will certainly try to push the issue of approved same-sex blessings, and, as you so rightly point out, that may well lead to Something Nasty.”

(This friend is gay, I might add.)

And I agree. Except for an additional point. If we see nothing in the next three year period between conventions, if the church continues to say and do nothing with regard to the issue of blessing gay people (which is as much a part of the baptismal promises for gay people as striaght), then I think I will be all for pushing ahead and letting the chips fall where they may. If it pushes people out, so be it. Those people, by their silence, are trying to push me out, and they would blackmail into silence me by threat of schism. So far, they have broken their promises to talk about the issue on every possible occasion. And if they are not committed to thinking the issues through and working them out, then I think we are better off without them.