Jesus Calling
Behold I stand with the phone to my ear and call without texting first. If anyone will answer I will catch up with them and them with me.
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Should we take advice from AI?
It’s not clear how many of Fyodor’s readers are actually aware of the human-AI collaboration. When my wife Ruth Gaskovski read the piece about smartphone addiction, she thought it was written by a real person, only to feel “creeped out” when she realized the truth. Why? The text had stirred emotion in her. To discover that it was partly (or mostly?) a machine felt violating. Source: Dear…
Anglican Sacramental and Liturgical Heritage
"Lex orandi, lex credendi" (the law of what is prayed, the law of what is believed)
Geographic firewalls of dysfunction
Affinity dioceses served us when we were vulnerable and scattered. But a maturing church needs something steadier—something rooted in the longstanding Anglican pattern of geographical unity. — David Roseberry I don’t know why geography keeps coming up as a first-order “have to solve now” issue over and above Holy Orders and Sacraments. The ACNA has proven itself not safe or mature enough tackle…
All digital information is misinformation
"This case with YouTube reveals the ways in which AI is increasingly a medium that defines our lives and realities," Woolley says. "People are already distrustful of content that they encounter on social media. What happens if people know that companies are editing content from the top down, without even telling the content creators themselves?" – YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos.…
Losing one's ground balancing the middle
David Roseberry, writing a sort of hagiography of the ACNA, said of the Episcopal Church : Doctrinal convictions long held by Christians across the centuries were being treated as grounds for discipline or dismissal. In such moments, there is no middle ground; to stand faithful means to stand apart. The thing is, those such as the Diocese of Fort Worth, since it is in impaired communion with the…
Parish Over Province
My parish vision has required me to be independent of the ‘happenings’ of the institution, mine being the ACNA, even as I remain personally concerned about them, wherein there is a low state of trust: My goal is to minister with the following threefold vision: Worship within the church firmly rooted in the tradition of the Prayer Book , not the least because it is time-tested to be helpful in…
The Diocesan Arms Race
Holy Orders and the ACNA I have updated the old Google spreadsheet which was originally sourced from Anglican Compass in 2018 about Holy Orders and diocesan statistics in the ACNA (this link will continue to refer to the current version). In it you can find parochial report statistics from 2018-2024, and I will keep it updated year-to-year. If you note a typo, feel free to reach out; I am prone to…
The Planetary Mass – The Nine o'clock Service
The Cult Mass After seeing the Living Church article on the Sex Cult abuse of the Nine o'clock Service , I'm reminded of some artefacts I picked up when looking into it all (and the Glasgow Late Late Service), many years ago: This is the recording of The Nine o'clock Service's " Planetary Masss ," a liturgy based on Matthew Fox's spirituality. 1 The Nine o'clock Service was a proto-Emerging Church…
A Bidding Prayer for the Prayers of the People
A classical alternate, most suitable for 2019 Renewed Ancient Text