It's been a busy week, here in the newsroom, as our team of hard-pressed writers struggle to make deadline while living on a punishing diet of pork chops, bacon, steak, Fritos, bean dip and the occasional Marie Callender chicken pot pie. While being attacked by The Weather. So here's a couple of highlights.
Two Christian daycare workers have been fired in Houston. Their crime? Refusing to tell the kids that a girl is a boy.
What. A. Pair. Of. Haters.
Unlike the Episcopal Church, (TEC) which is welcoming and inclusive, unless it's suing you.
Michael Curry became the Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop at Washington National Cathedral on November 1. Maybe he'll turn the declining denomination's ever dwindling demographics around by making people "happy." Or Muslim, or both. But in the meanwhile...
TEC's stats are in and what can we say? Don't worry. Be happy!
"To put some of these losses in perspective, in terms of membership, we lost the combined equivalent of the dioceses of Bethlehem, Central Pennsylvania, Delaware, Easton, Northwestern Pennsylvania, Southwestern Virginia, and West Virginia. Or (in Province IV) of Mississippi, Tennessee, and Western North Carolina. Or (in Province VII) of Arkansas, Fort Worth, Northwest Texas, Oklahoma, and West Missouri."
Way to go, TEC.
And then there was Heather Cook, the onetime Assistant Bishop of Baltimore.
"It was also revealed in Court that any civil claims and liability surrounding then-Bishop Heather Cook, the Diocese of Maryland and The Episcopal Church have been settled. Lawyers for the Palermo family confirmed such a resolution was hammered out but declined to provide details."
As Heather was going down, America was going up, in gun ownership.
Thanks, Barack and Hillary.
“Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton are the best gun salespeople on the planet. The more they scream for new gun control laws the more guns walk off the shelves at gun stores,” said Alan Gottlieb, the head of the Second Amendment Foundation. “To quote the lyrics of Peter, Paul and Mary, ‘When will they ever learn, when will they ever learn.’”
Apparently never, like our President's, ahem, resolve to destroy the murdering white tennis shoe savages of the Caliphate.
“You are asking me how we can deal radically with ISIS. The only answer is to radically destroy them."
Canon Andrew White may affect a curious blazer rig but no-one can fault him for telling it like is.
Just so you know, White's a member of the Anglican Communion, which may have been found by stargazing boffins at the European Space Agency.
"Many other regions beyond our observable universe would exist with each such region governed by a different set of physical parameters than the ones we have measured for our universe..."
Maybe we'll see how it all ends in January, but one thing's for sure, the cutthroat War on Weather continues with a vengeance.
Not easy when El Nino's on the loose and the Antarctic ice cap's growing. But wars don't come cheap, so sue Exxon.
Good work, Hillary, et al. Speaking of which, People Don't Trust Her.
Shocka.
And let's not forget the ongoing curse of the Diocese of Gloucester.
Gavin Ashenden wins the truth prize as another bishop figure falls afoul of the ancient curse.
"In the end, it is Scripture and the creeds that divide us. Bishop Rachel and those who appointed her and follow her are on one side of the divide; and the one, holy, catholic and apostolic church is on the other."
Perhaps the latter will somehow survive in the venerable CofE, but at ACoC's St. Albans, in Ottawa? Not so much.
A mysterious skull-faced asteroid narrowly missed collision with our fragile island home, the earth.
Or did it land at St. Albans, in Ottawa?
You, the reader, be the judge.
And don't forget, Hillary for Prison, 2016.
LSP
