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Dangerous innovations!
The Primates of the Anglican Communion have concluded their meeting and issued their Communiqué. Because I am "a bear of very little brain" (especially in such matters as these!) I have not begun to digest the text or its implications, but I did notice one particular phrase.Paragraph 10 of the Communiqué speaks of the "two threats to our common life" identified in the Windsor Report - "certain developments in the life and ministry of the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada which challenged the standard of teaching on human sexuality", and "cross-boundary interventions" in the life of those Provinces.It then explains that:"the cross-boundary interventions arose from a deep concern for the welfare of Anglicans in the face of innovation." [My emphasis].That's what got me!
Innovation in the church - whatever next?!We now have official confirmation - at the highest level - that innovation causes deep concern for the welfare of Anglicans!It's probably just me, but I wouldn't have thought that the outbreak of rampant innovation was all that much of a danger in the Anglican Church!One of my favourite events in the life of the Church is when Peter is asked to go to the house of Cornelius the centurion in Acts 10. I am bound to observe that if Peter had not responded positively to God's will for innovation, then there would be no Anglican Communion!Labels: Anglican Communion, Fun stuff, Theology
Grace - God's pass mark!
As usual, Dave Walker is hitting ecclesiastical nails squarely on their heads! His comment on the "Communion Sub-Group" report on The Episcopal Church of the USA reflects a rather more generous assessment than I fear will be forthcoming from some ...  The full series of cartoons is on Dave's Cartoon blog herePermalink: http://www.cartoonchurch.com/blog/2007/02/16/the-primates-meeting/Labels: Anglican Communion, Church, Fun stuff, Theology
Procrastinate, moi?
This is worrying! It's beginning to look as if Dave may have a hidden camera in my study!!  Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons. Labels: Fun stuff
Save the Planet - Stop Ironing
Here's an inspired idea from Dave Walker - it could just work!  Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons. Labels: Environment, Fun stuff
Wittgenstein, Freud and wheelie bins!
What an unexpected joy to have Clive James back on our airwaves with his first contribution to BBC Radio 4's A Point of View! I normally dip out when Brian Walden finishes a stint on this programme, but now I'll try and tune in to Mr James - always providing my Sunday morning hasn't degenerated into full panic mode by 8.50 am! This week Clive touches on environmental issues, seduction by language and male pride. I especially enjoyed this section on the wheelie bin and male/female roles. To say that I recognised myself would be ... absolutely true! In Cambridge we divide our garbage into two wheelie bins, marked compostable and non-compostable.
The two classifications don't apply to the wheelie bins, both of which are made of heavy-duty, non-compostable plastic, but do apply to their contents.
As the dolt of the household, a mere male and therefore little more than a brain-stem with a bank account, I myself am correctly regarded as too stupid to decide what goes into each bin. My job is to substitute one bin for another in the garden shed according to which week which bin is collected. Only women are clever enough to plan this schedule but only men can do the heavy labour involved, employing the brute force for which they have been famous since the cave, when everything was biodegradable. ... Each time I change the bins I almost subtract myself from the present total of the inhabitants of East Anglia because for evolutionary reasons I am unable to lug one bin out and push the other bin in without impacting my forehead into the top frame of the shed door. After the first time I fell to the flagstones clutching my bisected skull, when I jokingly suggested to the three watching eco-furies [wife and 2 daughters] that if I croaked in mid-manoeuvre they could always recycle me, I was informed that this possibility was on the cards because just outside of town there is a cemetery where they will bury you in a cardboard box.
There is also a graveyard called All Souls which has two wheelie bins standing outside it, one marked "All Souls compostable" and the other marked "All Souls non-compostable".In the terminology we use in our household, it is important to recognise which are the " blue jobs" and the " pink jobs"! Clive's full talk is here. Labels: Environment, Fun stuff
Vicarage wildlife?!
Making my way round a local supermarket this afternoon, I rang the Vicar, my wife, to check up on my shopping list - no reply. A few minutes later she rang back with a confusing tale. She hadn't been able to answer because the postman wanted her to see the beaver cubs! Now, I'm a duffer on all matters relating to wildlife - so this one really confused me! We have beaver cubs at the Vicarage?!?Well, not exactly ...! It seems the postman who came while I was out is also a Cub Leader, and the Beavers are a junior branch of the Scouting movement! I guess the visit is now in the diary. Now, of course, I should have known that - but that's not what I heard!! Labels: Fun stuff
"Locked-in vicar rings for help"
My wife saw this on the Daily Telegraph web site - you can see why she would have spotted it. There but for the grace of God go we! (Note especially the role of the son ... ours doesn't play the drums, but our vicarage is a bit further away from the church). (Telegraph link here)Locked-in vicar rings for help By Nigel Bunyan Last Updated: 1:52am BST 20/10/2006A vicar who inadvertently locked himself and his wife into his church used the bell to send out a "morse code" distress call to his parishioners. The Rev Steve Rathbone, 45, spent 20 minutes pulling on the rope before neighbours in Rainbow, near Macclesfield, Cheshire, realised something was amiss. Mr Rathbone and his wife, Jo, might have been freed earlier had their son, Jake, 16, who was in the vicarage next door, not been playing on his drum kit. They became trapped after a coffee morning when a helper left the building and locked it, unaware anyone was inside. Mr Rathbone, who has been the parish vicar of Rainbow for three years, said: "People said they didn't know for sure that it was an SOS, but they could tell it was an unusual rhythm for a church bell. "They came to investigate, realised we were trapped and let us out – for which we were truly thankful". Labels: Fun stuff
Greatly exaggerated!
“The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.”
So wrote Mark Twain in a cable from London to the Associated Press in 1897. It seems however that AP has struck again. News outlets around the world reported the death this week of Paul Vance, co-writer of the song Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini. This came as a particular shock to Mr Vance, who saw the report on TV!Apparently a woman who had been recently widowed repeated, in all innocence, her late husband’s claim that he had written the song. The real live writer is still fending off telephone calls and reassuring relatives and friends that he is very much alive! Apparently he liked most of what was written in his obituaries – but wanted to take issue with some of the things he read! The BBC had to retract it's report (here), whilst this is the Associated Press killing the story (here)! [ The Guardian has now killed the link - probably not directly out of embarrassment!] Labels: Fun stuff, Media
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