Following the first chap in the leather skirt we have: Integrity Ottawa; St. Michael and all Angels and the “new” St. Alban’s.
Directly to the rear was a paramedic’s van, presumably in consideration of the average age of the Anglicans preceding it.
Coincidentally, having run out of ideas of their own, an Anglican charity is offering a reward of £1,000 to the person who comes up with the most convincing reason to remain an Anglican.
Anyone?
Henry Juszkiewicz, Chairman and CEO of Gibson Guitar responds to the raid by armed federal agents looking for illegal wood.
The whole thing is well worth watching as the lunacy escalates:
From here:
After an almost decade-long rift among Anglicans that led to a breakaway group trying and failing to gain control of a Windsor church, Rev. Robert Bennett says the diocese is ready to move on and “regrow.”
I had no idea that the parishioners of St. Aidan’s, Windsor were the reason the Diocese of Huron was busily closing parishes. In my naïvety, I had assumed that, like many other Anglican Church of Canada dioceses, they were so obsessed with being inclusive that almost everyone had lost interest and left.
But no! It was really those pesky fundamentalists in St. Aidan’s holding the diocese back; now they are gone, the diocese can focus on being really inclusive and start growing. Hallelujah.
From here:
Federal agents swooped in on Gibson Guitar Wednesday, raiding factories and offices in Memphis and Nashville, seizing several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. The Feds are keeping mum, but in a statement yesterday Gibson’s chairman and CEO, Henry Juszkiewicz, defended his company’s manufacturing policies, accusing the Justice Department of bullying the company. “The wood the government seized Wednesday is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier,” he said, suggesting the Feds are using the aggressive enforcement of overly broad laws to make the company cry uncle.
[….]
t isn’t just Gibson that is sweating. Musicians who play vintage guitars and other instruments made of environmentally protected materials are worried the authorities may be coming for them next.
If you are the lucky owner of a 1920s Martin guitar, it may well be made, in part, of Brazilian rosewood. Cross an international border with an instrument made of that now-restricted wood, and you better have correct and complete documentation proving the age of the instrument. Otherwise, you could lose it to a zealous customs agent—not to mention face fines and prosecution.
John Thomas, a law professor at Quinnipiac University and a blues and ragtime guitarist, says “there’s a lot of anxiety, and it’s well justified.” Once upon a time, he would have taken one of his vintage guitars on his travels. Now, “I don’t go out of the country with a wooden guitar.”
I have nothing to worry about because all my guitars are made out of plywood and plastic, but this chap has a vintage Martin D35 that I’m sure has Brazilian rosewood on its back and sides. He is a mate of mine called Brian Ruttan; I can supply his address to any interested federal agents.
The homosexual cleric Rev. Brent Hawkes delivered the sermon, Steven Page sang Leonard Cohen’s “Halleluia”, Steven Lewis couldn’t resist being political and First Nations National Chief, Shawn Atleo presented a feather in a mawkish neo-pagan send-off of the persona of Jack Layton.
Let’s hope that the person is enjoying eternity in the presence of the Triune God.
It seems the attackers have proved the author’s point.
From here:
After publishing Wake Up Call with his cousin Gabrielle, Paris Dipersico was beaten by two men in OAKVILLE — Halton police are treating an attack on a first-time author whose self-published book has been branded anti-Muslim as a possible hate crime.
Raised Islamic, Paris Dipersico, 24, reported being dragged from his bicycle Aug. 17, tied up among trees, then beaten briefly unconscious by two Muslim men.
Accused of being gay, they then “called me a Jew in Arabic and said the Jews are paying you to write this against Islam,” the author of Wake Up Call said Thursday.
Yes I know he is dead, but he’s not much more dead than the current Primate and he’s a definite fit for the job:
He was passionate about issues of justice. He walked with the poor and the marginalized. He cared about the impact of the economy on health care, housing, and education.
[…..]
His entire public life was characterized by a profound commitment to the common good. He was a champion of human rights, and a passionate environmentalist. Proud to be Canadian he cared deeply about our place among the nations. In his final letter to all of us he wrote, “Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can be a better one—a country of greater equality, justice and opportunity.”
From here:
Washington, D.C. – The iconic Washington National Cathedral, already struggling with financial problems, faces millions of dollars in repair costs from the damage inflicted by the Aug.23 U.S. East Coast earthquake. And nothing is covered by insurance, according to a church official.
The solution is obvious: replace it with a cardboard replica. It would match the cardboard replica that has replaced Christianity in the Episcopal Church.
This particular mission has nothing at all to do with the Gospel and a lot to do with the anti-gospel: it is a dogged determination to repopulate diocesan clergy with homosexual priests who are “married” to someone of the same-sex.
The diocese has recently imported three such married priests from other dioceses and provinces and has now ordained another.
The latest ordination was protested by six existing priests in the diocese – not, as Bishop Barry Clarke made abundantly clear, that that will make a whit of difference.
This article (page 5) repeatedly refers to the six priests who have such an obstinate determination to cling to Biblical principles as “dissidents”, the currently approved term of opprobrium reserved for such obdurate Biblical obsessives:
The dissidents presented him with a letter, also signed by two absent colleagues, describing Mr. Camara’s marriage as incompatible with scripture and the definition of marriage under Anglican church law.
The preacher at the event – let’s not all it an “ordination” – made this pungent observation:
Walter Asbil (retired bishop of Niagara), often commented that we clergy ordained in the late fifties and early sixties had witnessed a major transition called the end of Christendom. We just hope we hadn’t caused it!
Such an inflated view of the influence of Anglican clergy is clearly preposterous: they have merely caused the end of Christianity in the Anglican Church – a far more modest achievement.
Something like this, probably:
A 140-year-old church downtown is at the heart of a local debate around heritage, neighbourhood development and poverty.
The Synod of the Diocese of Niagara and the Hamilton nonprofit corporation Options for Homes want to demolish All Saints Anglican Church on Queen Street South at King Street West to construct a 12-storey, affordable housing apartment. The main level would be used for worship and ministry by congregation members.
But a group of heritage advocates and citizens is fighting two “minor variances” that would exempt the project from the area’s zoning bylaws for parking and building height.
The developers’ requests for a minimum of 69 parking spaces instead of 87 and a maximum height of 12 floors as opposed to six were granted by the city’s committee of adjustment last year.
The good news is that, in St. Hilda’s case, the promise the diocese made to pave the parking lot 50 years ago will finally be kept.