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https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2012/02/diocese-of-virginia-is-emperor-without.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Diocese of Virginia Is an Emperor without Clothes Thanks to BabyBlue , we learn that the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, just five days before its Bishop held out the olive branch to the depa... anglican curmudgeondiocesevirginiaemperorwithout https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/09/815s-day-of-reckoning-approaches.html Anglican Curmudgeon: 815's Day of Reckoning Approaches The Episcopal Church (USA) currently is a party to some sixty lawsuits across the United States. Its litigation budget from 2006-2012 could... day of reckoninganglican curmudgeonapproaches https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/03/what-is-anglican-and-who-decides.html Anglican Curmudgeon: What is an Anglican, and who decides the question? What does it mean to be "an Anglican"? This is the question that is dividing the Anglican Communion today. Different groups, and different... anglican curmudgeonwhat iswho decidesquestion https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/05/of-bishops-and-boundaries.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Of Bishops and Boundaries The mistaken belief that "the ancient councils of the Church forbade Bishops from invading each other's territories" has been laid well to r... anglican curmudgeonbishopsboundaries https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/04/friday-morning-ted-talk-david-merrill.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Friday Morning TED Talk: David Merrill and "Siftables" TED stands for "Technology, Entertainment, Design"---all presented in a short, attention-grabbing time span. Today's talk, from the TED 2009... anglican curmudgeonfriday morningted talkdavidmerrill https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/03/fuzzy-logic-and-church-we-know-i.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Fuzzy Logic and the Church We Know (I) There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't. Robert Benchle... anglican curmudgeonfuzzy logicand thewe knowchurch https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/08/ Anglican Curmudgeon: August 2009 anglican curmudgeonaugust https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2012/06/supreme-court-does-unexpected.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Supreme Court Does the Unexpected The Supreme Court has ruled, 5-4, that the individual health care mandate passes constitutional muster as a tax , even though it is invalid ... anglican curmudgeonsupreme courtunexpected https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/10/ms-jefferts-schori-produce-letters.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Ms. Jefferts Schori, Produce the Letters! Concerning the "renunciation of the ordained Ministry of this Church" by the Rt. Rev. Keith Ackerman, resigned diocesan of Quincy, the Presi... anglican curmudgeonmsproduceletters https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2013/06/decision-time-in-south-carolina.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Decision Time in South Carolina Today is the day that Senior Federal District Judge Houck hears oral arguments from counsel on the motion by Bishop Mark Lawrence, his Episc... anglican curmudgeondecision timesouthcarolina https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/07/hollywood-goes-episcopal-over-to-you.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Hollywood Goes Episcopal: Over to You, Greg! OK, I am handing this one on to Greg Griffith: only his media savvy is up to commenting in depth about this event planned for Wednesday, Jul... over to youanglican curmudgeonhollywoodgoesepiscopal https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/08/consequences-of-general-convention-2003.html Anglican Curmudgeon: The Consequences of General Convention 2003 At its General Convention held in Minneapolis, Minnesota from July 30 to August 8, 2003, the Episcopal Church (USA) defied the consensus wit... anglican curmudgeonthe consequencesgeneral convention https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2015/07/selling-out-america-and-israel-in-12.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Selling Out America and Israel in 12 Lessons This video is, quite simply, the most devastating indictment of our current "negotiations" with Iran I have ever seen. Please share it widel... anglican curmudgeonselling outamericaisraellessons https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/11/friday-ted-talk-magnus-larsson-on.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Friday TED Talk: Magnus Larsson on Turning Dunes into Architecture This was one of the more remarkable talks given at the TED Global Conference at Oxford in 2009. Magnus Larsson is still a student in archite... anglican curmudgeonted talkmagnus larsson https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-warning.html Anglican Curmudgeon: A Warning From my good friend John, who quoted this on his Orthodox blog Ad Orientem (with my own emphasis added): The general political direction ... anglican curmudgeonwarning https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/10/its-great-to-have-reinforcements.html Anglican Curmudgeon: It's Great to Have Reinforcements Please go on over to the website of the Anglican Communion Institute and read the address which Mark McCall gave to the Annual Convention o... anglican curmudgeonto havegreatreinforcements https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/07/gordon-brown-at-ted-political-heresy.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Gordon Brown at TED: Political Heresy Equal to +Schori's There was a surprise appearance yesterday afternoon by Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the TED Global 2009 Conference here in Oxford. He spok... anglican curmudgeongordon brown https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/08/love-and-marriage.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Love and Marriage Collected on this page are the posts I have put up about the issue of same-sex marriages, both from a secular and a religious point of view.... anglican curmudgeonlovemarriage https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/08/politics-economics-and-media.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Politics, Economics and the Media This is not just a blog about religion and canon law. My interest in law spills over to issues in politics, economics, and the media, and po... anglican curmudgeonand thepoliticseconomicsmedia https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2017/06/bruno-caught-between-rock-and-hard-place.html Anglican Curmudgeon: +Bruno Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place [UPDATED] The Rt. Rev. J. Jon Bruno, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, has landed himself in a difficult spot. As detailed in this earli... anglican curmudgeonbrunocaught https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2010/09/frank-tiplers-god-of-multiverse-part.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Frank Tipler's God of the Multiverse - Part III In my previous post in this series , I indicated, without yet having heard of Professor Stephen Hawking's new book , what Frank Tipler's ans... anglican curmudgeonfrank tiplerof the https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2019/03/ Anglican Curmudgeon: March 2019 anglican curmudgeonmarch https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/07/friday-ted-talk-alain-de-botton-on.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Friday TED Talk: Alain de Botton on Success and Failure The 2009 TED Global talks are starting to come on line. One of the first is this scintillating verbal essay by British (originally Swiss) s... alain de bottonanglican curmudgeonted talk https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2010/08/is-bennison-disqualified-from-serving.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Is +Bennison Disqualified from Serving Further? The following correspondence was emailed to me anonymously. I cannot vouch for its authenticity, but it makes for highly interesting reading... anglican curmudgeonbennisondisqualifiedserving https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/02/future-before-your-eyes.html Anglican Curmudgeon: The Future Before Your Eyes Or: The Birds of 1979 Come Home to Roost This will be a long post. It did not start out that way, but as I gathered more and more material, ... anglican curmudgeonthe futureeyes https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/06/st-james-petitions-for-review-in.html Anglican Curmudgeon: St. James Petitions for Review in Supreme Court The parish of St. James in Newport Beach has filed its petition for certiorari (review) with the United States Supreme Court. The petition m... anglican curmudgeonst jamesfor reviewpetitionssupreme https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/08/litigation-diocese-of-san-joaquin.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Litigation - the Diocese of San Joaquin The Diocese of San Joaquin has been the pioneer in the wave of dioceses deciding to make their way apart from the autocratic path of the Epi... anglican curmudgeonthe dioceselitigationsanjoaquin https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/11/physics-of-christianity-frank-tipler-on.html Anglican Curmudgeon: The Physics of Christianity: Frank Tipler on the Virgin Birth This will be one of the most unusual posts I have put up on this blog, which is normally devoted to issues of the interface between law (inc... anglican curmudgeonthe physicsfrank tipler https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/05/friday-ted-talk-laurie-garrett-on-flu.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Friday TED Talk: Laurie Garrett on the Flu Threat With the news of the spread of swine flu in the world, I thought this talk by Laurie Garrett from the 2007 TED Conference would be of intere... anglican curmudgeonted talklaurie garrettthe flufriday https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2012/01/ Anglican Curmudgeon: January 2012 anglican curmudgeonjanuary https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/09/your-health-care-plan-is-toast.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Your Health Care Plan Is Toast Thanks to the Kennedy family and their subservient politicians in Massachusetts, the Democrats now once again have a filibuster-proof majori... health care plananglican curmudgeontoast https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/06/canonical-analysis-of-mitregate.html Anglican Curmudgeon: A Canonical Analysis of "Mitregate" Pity the bishops from ECUSA (and all other branches of the Communion) -- they each have to submit the following application , with copies of... anglican curmudgeoncanonicalanalysis https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/08/meanwhile-back-at-ol-ball-game.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Meanwhile, Back at the Ol' Ball Game . . . An unassisted triple play. In the ninth inning, to end the game. (I'm putting this up without delay, because MLB will probably force it off ... anglican curmudgeonat themeanwhilebackol https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/08/dog-in-manger-series.html Anglican Curmudgeon: The "Dog in the Manger" Series TEC: "Temporalities Eternally Cocooned", or the Dog in the Manger In which we chronicle the hollow victories won by the Episcopal Church (... anglican curmudgeonthe dogmangerseries https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/05/sauls-memorandum-refuted-ii.html Anglican Curmudgeon: The Sauls Memorandum Refuted (II) In this post, I complete my rebuttal to the Memorandum sent to the House of Bishops by the Rt. Rev. Stacy F. Sauls, of the Diocese of Lexin... anglican curmudgeonsaulsmemorandumii https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/08/new-declaration-of-independence.html Anglican Curmudgeon: A New Declaration of Independence The Common Cause Partnership has signaled its intent to petition, and the FCA (GAFCON) Primates' Council has declared it will give priority... anglican curmudgeonnew declarationindependence https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/08/on-gulf-that-separates-us.html Anglican Curmudgeon: On the Gulf That Separates Us As many of you can tell from looking at the links to the right, I like to survey many viewpoints in the process of deciding what to write he... anglican curmudgeonthe gulfseparatesus https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2010/10/washington-watch-out.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Washington, Watch Out! Here is a small sign of the tsunami that is going to hit Washington in just eleven more days: [Note: the original video to which I linked wa... anglican curmudgeonwashington watch https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2011/04/california-supreme-court-gives-st-james.html Anglican Curmudgeon: California Supreme Court Gives St. James its Day in Court The monumental struggle of St. James Newport Beach to have its day in court just received a definitive boost from the California Supreme Cou... california supreme courtanglican curmudgeonst james https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/08/posts-on-history-of-episcopal-church.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Posts on the History of the Episcopal Church (USA) On this page you will find links to all of the posts which go into the details of the origins and institutional history of the Protestant Ep... the history ofanglican curmudgeonepiscopal churchpostsusa https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/04/san-joaquin-further-update.html Anglican Curmudgeon: San Joaquin - a Further Update The parties on both sides of the lawsuit brought by Bishop Jerry Lamb et al. against Bishop John-David Schofield et al. in Fresno County S... anglican curmudgeonsan joaquinupdate https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/12/anatomy-of-church-property-lawsuit.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Anatomy of a Church Property Lawsuit (Tennessee) - Part I The Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Tennessee, a religious corporation organized under Tennessee law, and it... anglican curmudgeonchurch propertyanatomy https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/01/arguing-episcopal-church-cases-i.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Arguing the Episcopal Church Cases (I) This will be the second in a series of posts anticipating the opinions by the California Supreme Court in The Episcopal Church Cases (No. S... the episcopal churchanglican curmudgeonarguingcases https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/11/ceasing-of-seizing.html Anglican Curmudgeon: A Ceasing of Seizing Father Mark Harris is upset on the eve of Thanksgiving . Actually, I am, too -- so that makes two of us. Except that what upsets Father Har... anglican curmudgeon https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/05/friday-ted-talk-sarah-jones-and-her.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Friday TED Talk: Sarah Jones and Her Characters In light of the recently concluded multinational meeting of the Anglican Consultative Council in Jamaica, with representatives (both include... anglican curmudgeonted talksarah jonesand herfriday https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/04/friday-ted-talk-willie-smits-on-re.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Friday TED Talk: Willie Smits on Re-Growing a Rainforest With the Green Revolution that is so much in the news, I have picked for this Friday morning's TED talk a true example of what everyone must... anglican curmudgeonted talk https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2011/10/kangaroo-court-should-resign-in-toto.html Anglican Curmudgeon: The Kangaroo Court Should Resign in Toto In the wake of the resignation of Ms. Josephine Hicks as Church Attorney on the +Mark Lawrence matter, Bishop Dorsey Henderson, President of... anglican curmudgeonkangaroo courtresigntoto https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/01/bandit-bishop-strikes-again.html Anglican Curmudgeon: The Bandit Bishop Strikes Again In a display of now unparalleled and unprecedented lawlessness for an ordained bishop, the Primate of All the Episcopal Church (USA) has thr... anglican curmudgeonthe banditbishopstrikes https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2016/07/a-uniquely-american-conundrum.html Anglican Curmudgeon: A Uniquely American Conundrum When it comes to evaluating prosecutorial discretion, count me out -- my career for 45 years has been in the civil law. (Although I was fort... anglican curmudgeonuniquelyamericanconundrum https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2013/06/federal-judge-returns-south-carolina.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Federal Judge Returns South Carolina Case to State Court In a thoroughly researched and well-reasoned opinion released today , Senior District Judge C. Weston Houck of the United States District Co... anglican curmudgeonfederal judgesouth carolinareturns https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/03/guide-to-this-site.html Anglican Curmudgeon: A Guide to This Site This is a blog about the conflicts, legal and otherwise, that currently are tearing apart both the Episcopal Church in the United States ... a guide toanglican curmudgeonsite https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/03/pewsters-primer-for-st-patricks-day.html Anglican Curmudgeon: A Pewster's Primer for St. Patrick's Day St. Patrick may not have been entirely responsible for removing the snakes from Ireland , but that does not mean we cannot celebrate his fe... anglican curmudgeonst patrickprimerday https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/08/culture-wars-dispatches-from-behind.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Culture Wars: Dispatches from Behind the Lines Extracts from a speech by Satan to his assembled minions, reported from behind the lines by Peter Kreeft in How to Win the Culture War (20... anglican curmudgeonculture warsfrom behinddispatcheslines https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2014/05/an-ugly-thought-but-someone-has-to.html Anglican Curmudgeon: An Ugly Thought -- but Someone Has to Express It Even as a curmudgeon, I take no pleasure in the stories illustrating the decline in America's greatness, that parallel the stories of the de... anglican curmudgeonuglythought https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/03/dangerous-slope-arguments-on.html Anglican Curmudgeon: A Dangerous Slope: Arguments on California's Proposition 8 Watching court arguments in cases involving fundamental constitutional law is always a good education in civics. The argument yesterday in t... anglican curmudgeondangerousslope https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/08/modest-proposal-for-going-forward.html Anglican Curmudgeon: A Modest Proposal for Going Forward There is much soul-searching going on in the Anglican Communion, as well as within the Episcopal Church (USA) itself, about what proper resp... a modest proposalanglican curmudgeongoingforward https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/07/ex-cathedra.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Ex Cathedra One week to the day after he was expected to deliver it, the Archbishop of Canterbury has now published his reaction to the events at the G... anglican curmudgeonexcathedra https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2010/01/friday-ted-talk-loretta-napoleoni-on.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Friday TED Talk: Loretta Napoleoni on the Economics of Terrorism Italian economist Loretta Napoleoni lays out, in sixteen short minutes, the basis for her conclusion that terrorism operates just like any o... the economics ofanglican curmudgeonted talkloretta napoleoni https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/11/bishop-wantland-knows-his-canons.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Bishop Wantland Knows His Canons The Diocese of Ft. Worth having voted last weekend to leave The Episcopal Church to affiliate with the Province of the Southern Cone, there ... anglican curmudgeonbishopknowscanons https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/08/litigation-diocese-of-virginia.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Litigation - the Diocese of Virginia Like the dioceses in New York, the dioceses in Virginia operate under a special statute that affects the outcome of any litigation with thei... anglican curmudgeonthe dioceselitigationvirginia https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2016/08/a-catholics-view-of-episcopal-feminist.html Anglican Curmudgeon: A Catholic's View of Episcopal Feminist Theology A bit tardy, perhaps -- but since she is still giving sermons, and will soon once again be teaching at a school of divinity (this time not... anglican curmudgeoncatholicviewepiscopalfeminist https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2013/04/an-overview-of-complex-situation-in.html Anglican Curmudgeon: An Overview of the Complex Situation in South Carolina Lawsuits in San Joaquin and Quincy have prevented me from doing an update on the situation in South Carolina, and one is sorely needed. The ... anglican curmudgeonoverview ofthe complex https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2013/09/taking-up-fiddle-while-rome-burns.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Taking up the Fiddle While Rome Burns ECUSA's House of Bishops scheduled its fall meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, starting this Thursday, with a theme of " Transforming Loss int... anglican curmudgeonthe fiddletakingromeburns https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/12/know-enemy-is-this-general-convention.html Anglican Curmudgeon: "Know the Enemy": Is This the General Convention We Started With? Readers of my lengthy previous post will be thoroughly informed about the convening of the Church's first General Convention, in the fall o... know the enemyanglican curmudgeon https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2015/07/charges-filed-against-bruno-by-clergy.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Charges Filed against +Bruno by Clergy and Parishioners The heavy-handed treatment meted out by Bishop J. Jon Bruno of Los Angeles to the parish of St. James the Great in Newport Beach, as reporte... anglican curmudgeonchargesfiledbrunoclergy https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2013/07/our-lawless-president-fosters-more.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Our Lawless President Fosters More Lawlessness For six years now, Barack Obama has set a record for lawlessness in the office of the Presidency . And now we see the price of our having ... anglican curmudgeonlawlesspresidentfosters https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/10/canon-law-background-of-pontiffs.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Canon Law Background of the Pontiff's Proposal We are still some time away, I think, from seeing the actual text of the canonical structure which Pope Benedict XVI proposes to establish i... anglican curmudgeoncanon lawof thebackgroundproposal https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2010/02/delightful-and-erudite-blog-for-your.html Anglican Curmudgeon: A Delightful and Erudite Blog for Your Perusal This past summer I attended the TED Global Conference in Oxford -- a wonderful place I had never before visited. On the recommendation of on... anglican curmudgeonfor yourdelightfuleruditeblog https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2010/03/timely-parable.html Anglican Curmudgeon: A Timely Parable I found this little tale, written by Hugo Salinas Price, at a site devoted to Mexican silver money . Our current out-of-control deficit spen... anglican curmudgeontimelyparable https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2017/12/celebrating-birth-of-jesus-christ.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Celebrating the Birth of Jesus Christ As Advent slides into Christmas, I should explain my extended silence on this blog. As for things Anglican, there is no joy in watching th... the birth of jesusanglican curmudgeoncelebratingchrist https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/08/dont-talk-to-police.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Don't Talk to the Police This post will offer a change of pace from the usual Anglican/Episcopal ferment. What I am about to show you reminded me of an incident that... anglican curmudgeondon ttalk topolice https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2015/06/is-this-prophet-his-message-deserves-to.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Is This a Prophet? His Message Deserves to Be Heard In putting up this post, I realize I am asking a lot of my regular readers. Nevertheless, the message below is so important that I am moved... anglican curmudgeon https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2011/06/sarah-palin-paul-revere-and-partisan.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Sarah Palin, Paul Revere and the Partisan Media There is scarcely anything new that can be said about the partisan media in the United States. Does anyone now remember that, as his second ... anglican curmudgeonsarah palinpaul revereand thepartisan https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2013/03/san-joaquin-brief-update.html Anglican Curmudgeon: San Joaquin - a Brief Update Judge Hamilton of the Fresno County Superior Court heard oral arguments by the attorneys for ECUSA and the rump Diocese of San Joaquin late ... anglican curmudgeonsan joaquinbriefupdate https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/08/constitutional-crisis-in-ecusa.html Anglican Curmudgeon: The Constitutional Crisis in ECUSA The Episcopal Church in the United States of America, or ECUSA, is in the midst of a constitutional crisis. The crisis is the fault of a lac... anglican curmudgeonconstitutional crisisecusa https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/12/father-brown-mystery-strangled-in-her.html Anglican Curmudgeon: A "Father Brown" Mystery: Strangled by Her Own Canons (NEW YORK, N.Y.) In a bizarre incident this afternoon at Episcopal Church headquarters at 815 Second Avenue, the Presiding Bishop was stran... anglican curmudgeonfather brown https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/11/what-republicans-can-do-with-their-yard.html Anglican Curmudgeon: What Republicans Can Do with Their Yard Signs Today (Hat-tip: Steven Hayward, NoLeftTurns ) anglican curmudgeonyard signsrepublicans https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/01/in-memoriam.html Anglican Curmudgeon: In Memoriam Sir John Mortimer, Q.C. (1923-2009) Beloved of millions for his creation, Horace Rumpole of the Old Bailey , barrister extraordinaire. Obit... anglican curmudgeonmemoriam https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/07/friday-ted-talk-nina-jablonski-on-skin.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Friday TED Talk: Nina Jablonski on Skin Color In this talk from the February 2009 TED Conference, anthropologist Nina Jablonski rehearses the simple correlation between skin color and ex... anglican curmudgeonted talkfridayninajablonski https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2015/09/blatant-bias-on-display-in-ecusas-south.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Blatant Bias on Display in ECUSA's South Carolina Case Before the oral arguments yesterday in The Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of South Carolina v. Episcopal Church in the Supreme... anglican curmudgeon https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/05/issue-is-finally-joined-in-pittsburgh-i.html Anglican Curmudgeon: The Issue Is Finally Joined in Pittsburgh (I) Note to non-lawyers: I regret having to go into the degree of legal detail, argument, and technical terms that I have had to do in this pos... anglican curmudgeonthe issuefinallyjoinedpittsburgh https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2013/08/court-socks-la-presbytery-with-400k-in.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Court Socks LA Presbytery with $400K in Sanctions In an order made public by The Layman online earlier today, the Hon. Kay Bates, Judge of the 19th Judicial District Court in Baton Rouge... anglican curmudgeoncourtsockslapresbytery https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/10/friday-ted-talk-oliver-sacks-discusses.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Friday TED Talk: Oliver Sacks Discusses Hallucinations Famed neurologist Oliver Sacks gave the talk shown below at the February 2009 TED Conference in Long Beach. He shares with us some details a... anglican curmudgeonted talkoliver sacksfridaydiscusses https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2013/03/comic-relief-paper-is-not-yet-dead.html Anglican Curmudgeon: [Comic Relief] Paper Is Not Yet Dead! Unfortunately, Vimeo won't let anyone embed this video yet, but it is one of the cleverest commercials (given its subject) I've seen in year... anglican curmudgeoncomic reliefnot yetpaperdead https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/08/friday-ted-talk-eric-giler-and-wireless.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Friday TED Talk: Eric Giler and Wireless Electricity Here is another talk from the TED 2009 Global Conference which I attended this summer in Oxford, and which illustrates the "T" in TED ("Tec... anglican curmudgeonted talkfridayericwireless https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2010/01/pittsburgh-church-assets-thrown-into.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Pittsburgh Church Assets Thrown into Chaos The Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, the Hon. Joseph M. James presiding, has now taken its next step into the devolving morass tha... anglican curmudgeonpittsburghchurchassetsthrown https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2009/02/jesus-warning-to-those-perpetuating.html Anglican Curmudgeon: Jesus' Warning to Those Perpetuating False Teaching Recent news from the Diocese of New Hampshire shows that, like many other parts of the Episcopal Church (USA) today, it is suffering from d... anglican curmudgeonjesuswarningfalseteaching https://accurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/11/question-for-ages-especially-this-one.html Anglican Curmudgeon: A Question for the Ages (Especially This One) The information as to just who is getting how much in the ongoing bailout is now public. 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