Liza Anderson

(Although I somewhat regretted it after reading a great sermon by Bernard of Clairvaux about how Mary contemplates, Martha manages and administrates, and Lazarus cleans things! Maybe he can be there if he's actually washing the dishes and letting Martha do more important work!)

That one predates me, so I actually don't know. The extent of my interference in that feast was kicking Lazarus out and letting the girls have their own day again!

I think it was intended to be v.6. (Give people 9 or 13 verses and there would be riots...Or, more realistically for Episcopalians, silent mutiny and just not doing all that!)

I impulse bought something I've never seen before, which turns out to be a kind of squash! Me: "what is this?" Farmer: "Not sure, but I'd sauté it. It gets soggy if you roast it." Me: "...okay, I'll take 2 of whatever it is!"

In general, I'm on team "don't treat the Trinity as though you just read an organizational theory textbook and now think every hypostasis needs a clear job on your org chart", but if I wanted to defend it I would probably lean more on the creedal language of "giver of life".

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Also, I know you prefer not online, but you might like something like the certificate in Benedictine Spirituality at St. John's, which has a mix of online and short term summer classes: www.csbsju.edu/sot/academic...
I keep sending them Episcopalians, and people all seem to really like it.

3. And very generally, travel/exchange and language immersion courses. Specifics would depend totally on your own interests, but possibilities include different Anglican seminaries that take sabbatical guests, the Anglican Centre in Rome, St. George's College Jerusalem, etc.

1. Experiential learning trips through the CICW. (Scroll down to past events; I assume these will be offered again next year)
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In addition to what others have said, I would point out that canons often exist because people do bad things! For example, I know of a defrocked priest who has regularly represented himself as "retired" and offers to take services when he is traveling, and not everyone checks his story....

A very reasonable and relatable reaction to going for a walk in the fresh air, honestly, even if there HADN'T been an execution waiting at the end of it...
(From Salvation at Stake by Brad Gregory, p.99)

I should have planned this better, because I was in town for CDSP's graduation and could totally have crashed that service! But I did have great worship with St. Mark's in Berkeley and am now off to the airport...

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The CALL program at CDSP is pretty good. It's online asynchronous, and very affordable at only $150 a course. (On the 2025-2026 list, I am teaching History of the Episcopal Church and History of Christian Monasticism...) cdsp.edu/call/online/

After watching obsessively for the white smoke, I was actually 10 minutes late in hearing about it, and this cuteness is why!

I’ve been running late to everything this week because there are so many cute baby geese to watch, but who among us, etc… (I’m sure Saint Werburgh would excuse me slinking in late to prayer if the excuse was “BUT LOOK, BABY GEESE!”⚓️

Pope Leo XIII had pet goats (and deer and gazelle) which were allowed to freely roam the grounds of the Vatican, and I choose to believe that THAT is why the new pope has chosen the name Leo! ⚓ 🐐

(This is not a terrible idea, though. A papal menagerie would do well in the age of social media...)

I am fascinated by just how many people in Rome have a national flag to wave! Does one just buy it on site? Does someone come around and hand them out because it makes for good tv optics? Did this many people actually think to put that on their PACKING list? Socks, deodorant, toothbrush, flag....

I am always more worried about the people who THINK they already know everything and resent being asked to do any formation!

AMEN! (His old 2006 bio said that he was "once called the greatest of all thinkers of the English church" (!) and I was like "....by WHOM? His mother?"

There seems to be a severe allergy to paring back the calendar or introducing more tiers of feasts, but I still think those are good ideas.

The process is pretty grassroots, with recommendations coming from dioceses and deputies. Those recently referred by General Convention are 2 white men, 2 white women, 1 Black man, 1 Native Hawaiian woman. This would be the time to be making proposals at the diocesan level for 2027.

2 is still bad, but I would have counted both Oscar Romero and Juana Ines de la Cruz as Latine...

I secretly think it would be fun to do a reverse Lent Madness to vote people OFF the calendar! It would certainly raise the stakes and be exciting...

We've had Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018, LFF 2022, and are now on LFF 2024: www.episcopalcommonprayer.org/uploads/1/2/...
(It's mostly settled down, but we ARE in the middle of a major rewrite of all of the bios, which will be finished in 2030...)

I tried to cut ALL of those in 2018! I feel like we could at LEAST cut the kings...

That was the plan, but then GCW was never authorized. (Basically, we broke the calendar on the floor of convention and as penance for unknown-but-apparently-grave sins I ended up being the one who had to try to untangle it...)

No, much worse! The 2018 breakdown has charts and stats of HWHM vs LFF, but of course there have been changed since then. But HWHM mostly did diversity by adding a bunch of white male missionary priests TO different countries!

Walked in, read the white board, and wondered if this was the to-do list for today. I could get on board with this as an agenda! ⚓️

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“In Necessities, Unity”. Question is: what is necessary for unity? Why?
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6 The Saint’s Underwear: A Postmodern Reflection on The Rule and Life of St. Benedict with help from Gregory the Great and Hildegard of Bingen 6 The Saint’s Underwear: A Postmodern Reflection on The Rule and Life of St. Benedict with help from Gregory the Great and Hildegard of Bingen was published in Seeing into the Life of Things on page 1...

This is also fun:
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The explanation that makes the most sense to me is that it was to prevent sores when riding on horses.

(You get all kinds of fun monastic underwear controversies a few centuries later when most Benedictines were wearing underwear and Cistercians were insisting that they shouldn't!)