Think … recycled Protestant liberalism mixed in with “Jesus People”-style hip evangelical rage against authority and Sojourners-style rococo pseudo-Marxism, all through the filter of grunge coffeehouse postmodernism … Read more

Bishop Robert F. Waggener will trade his bishop’s mitre for a priest’s biretta in the Western Rite. Bishop Waggener, who until recently served as bishop of the Diocese of the Holy Cross, has become the first Continuing Anglican bishop to convert to the Antiochian Orthodox Church’s Western Rite Vicariate … Read about it. Read more

1 ½ cup corn meal½ cup flour1 teaspoon salt½ teaspoon soda3 teaspoons baking powder5 teaspoons garlic pepper2 teaspoons garlic powder1 cup corn2 6 oz. cans crab meat with liquid drained¾ cup soy milkOil for frying Mix all dry ingredients. Add corn and crab meat and mix well. Add soy milk. The batter should be thick enough to drop from a spoon into hot oil. Heat about ½ inch of oil in frying pan. Fry to a golden brown and drain... Read more

Discussion on the Pope’s dropping the title “Patriarch of the West” continues; check out the links on this piece from This Side of Glory — and, lifted from the comments on my previous post, here’s John’s take: I think it is likely that the decision to drop the title has more to do with [Pope] Benedict’s long held and publicly stated conviction in his many writings, that the Western Church is excessively centralized. That it was wrong for Rome to... Read more

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Let us observe a Fast acceptable and pleasing to the Lord. True fasting is to put away all evil, to control the tongue, to forbear from anger, to abstain from lust, slander, falsehood and perjury. If we renounce these things, then is our fast true and acceptable to God. Taken from Vespers on the evening of the first day of the Great Fast, Pure Monday. Read more

A senior citizen in Punta Gorda, Florida bought a brand new Mercedes convertible. He took off down the road, flooring it to 90 mph and enjoying the wind blowing through what little hair he had left on his head. “This is great,” he thought as he roared down I-75. He pushed the pedal to the metal even more. Then he looked in his rear view mirror and saw a highway patrol trooper behind him, blue lights flashing and siren blaring.... Read more

The Rev. Janet Edwards (middle), pastor emeritus of the Community of Reconciliation Church, prays with the church’s interim pastor, Bette J. Moore (left), and the Rev. Linda Lawson before services at the church on Sunday. Still stumped? Go H E R E for clues. HT Anglican TK After a while, ya gotta admit, it makes one a little bonkers — or is that bongers … as in Bong Hits for Jesus? Here’s the straight dope. HT Drudge Read more

Is Outrage!Defining blasphemy in our current “world culture.” RC Bps vs. DVC: Roman Catholic Bishops Fight Back! “The Da Vinci Code is a mess, a riot of laughable errors and serious misstatements. Almost every page has at least one of each,” the bishops wrote on the website Jesusdecoded.com. HT News Forum Soulforce: Sodom visits Gomorrah Read more

by Bishop Hilarion (Alfayaev)* The Pope’s Title “Patriarch of the West” [has been] Removed. What Does It Mean for the Orthodox? (March 6, 2006) The mass media reported that in the new edition of the “Annuario Pontificio” for 2006 the pope’s title “Patriarch of the West” has been dropped. Now the official list of titles includes: “bishop of Rome, vicar of Jesus Christ, successor of the prince of the apostles, supreme pontiff of the Universal Church, Primate of Italy, archbishop... Read more