Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Nov 28, 2009, 2:58 pm
The following are some revised remarks I gave at The Living Church reception at General Convention this year.  They’re been published in the Dec. 13th issue of The Living Church.  See what you...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Nov 22, 2009, 3:44 pm
.Bonnie Blue Flag. Like many young men in the South, he became overly subtle and had trouble ruling out the possible.  They are not like an immigrant’s son in Passaic who decides to become a d...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Nov 18, 2009, 9:05 pm
I just discovered something interesting as I was looking for an old letter of my great grand-father’s.  It seems that one of his brothers (a half-brother actually) lived in Nashville in the ear...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Nov 17, 2009, 5:34 pm
For those who are interested, here are some interesting things I’ve been reading over the past few days: Image Magazine: Episcopentecostalianism, Bradford Winters laments the fact that there ar...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Nov 16, 2009, 9:37 pm
Earlier today I attended a special screening of The Road the new film based upon the Cormac McCarthy novel of the same name.  Let me say first that I am inclined to like McCarthy’s writing.  A...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Nov 13, 2009, 5:00 pm
Many of you will have heard of several eminent domain cases over the past several years that upheld and expanded the rights of local governments to condemn private property and sell it to private deve...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Nov 13, 2009, 12:02 pm
A while ago–perhaps a year or more–Dean Kevin Martin of the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas visited the Diocese of Tennessee and gave a presentation about evangelism at one of our congregation...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Nov 12, 2009, 7:23 pm
Sunday 01 November 2009 For the 150th year of the consecration of the church, All Saints’ Day. Lectionary: Isaiah 65:17-65:25; Hebrews 11:32-12:2 In the name of the Father and of the Son and ...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Nov 11, 2009, 11:15 am
.Veterans Day 2009. I encourage visitors to this blog to remember the veterans in their lives–in their families and communities–today. I also especially want to thank my own family membe...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Nov 6, 2009, 10:01 am
I thought this was an interesting reflection on the worldview that underlies Halloween, and the importance of celebrating All Saints & All Souls days following.  I will admit to having been majorly p...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Nov 3, 2009, 12:42 am
There has been quite a bit of discussion in Anglican blogdom and more recently in the media about the announcement by the Vatican of a new Apostolic Constitution that will create something called R...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Oct 30, 2009, 9:27 am
Anna and I have recently started following the show “FlashForward,” which I’ve found to be pretty entertaining. In one of the recent episodes, “Black Swan,” I was intere...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Oct 7, 2009, 7:38 pm
.Blessed John Donne. SINCE I am coming to that Holy room, Where, with Thy choir of saints for evermore, I shall be made Thy music ; as I come I tune the instrument here at the door, And what ...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Oct 6, 2009, 4:26 pm
I’m not sure what term describes this the best.  It’s certainly kitsch-y and in poor taste, but that doesn’t quite cover it: FORT WORTH, Texas (BP)–Dressed in camouflage and ...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Sep 30, 2009, 11:39 am
The following anecdote has been making its way around the internet. It comes to me via the Faith & Theology blog, and in turn came to him via Inhabitatio Dei, another blog. Whether it’s apocry...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Sep 15, 2009, 11:56 am
.The Last Judgement. Let them vanish like water that runs off; * let them wither like trodden grass. Let them be like the snail that melts away, * like a stillborn child that never sees the sun. Be...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Sep 11, 2009, 9:57 am
Today is the eighth anniversary of the attacks of 9/11/01 and I’ve spent part of the morning reflecting on that day and the subsequent years with their story authored so much by those attacks an...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Sep 7, 2009, 6:09 pm
I thought I’d take a moment to update everyone on my current reading.  I picked up a copy of N.T. Wright’s Justification: God’s Plan & Paul’s Vision the other day and am ready...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Sep 7, 2009, 5:45 pm
Worship is tricky business.  It is at the heart of the Christian life, and was important enough for God to give detailed instructions as to the appropriate manner, location, and form for worship in t...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Aug 17, 2009, 11:55 pm
At the beginning of last week my dad came to visit and we started work on a shed.  By the end of the week I’d taken Anna to see little horses and made my first ever vegetarian chicken*.  Here ...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Aug 6, 2009, 9:23 pm
My first podcast.  See what you think: Note: I’ve already had a question about this, so I thought I would clarify. I am not at all equating having tattoos with being gay. The two things are ...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Jul 22, 2009, 9:58 pm
A friend recently mentioned Stanley Hauerwas’ new sermon collection, A Cross Shattered Church to me.  I was taking a look at it tonight, trying to decide if I wanted to order it for myself when...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Jul 22, 2009, 6:28 pm
Jordan Hylden hits one out of the park with this: The seventy-sixth General Convention of the Episcopal Church made headlines last week for moving forward on same-sex blessings and officially opening...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Jul 21, 2009, 11:31 am
I very much appreciate Bishop Lawrence’s perspective, especially on these points: Christians need to face our demons around marrital breakdown and sexuality (pornography, sexual abuse etc…...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Jul 20, 2009, 11:42 pm
Here are a few interesting things I ran across in my RSS reader over the past week. Take a look and see what you think: Court questioned on law: CEN 7.10.09 p 7. July 20, 2009 English Church attac...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Jul 17, 2009, 1:13 pm
One of my friends, Dr. Christopher Wells, was recently interviewed reguarding his views of the latest resolutions passed by General Convention. I believe he rightly states the predicament that those ...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Jul 17, 2009, 8:01 am
Here are a few interesting things I ran across in my RSS reader over the past week. Take a look and see what you think: Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church Equates Reciting the Creed with Idola...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Jul 6, 2009, 12:51 am
Very Cool: About 800 pages of the earliest surviving Christian Bible have been recovered and put on the internet. Visitors to the website www.codexsinaiticus.org can now see images of more than half...
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Joseph H. posted an article on Quo Vadis ? - Jul 5, 2009, 6:21 pm
International Marriage Sign Recently the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katherine Jefferts-Schori was in Nashville for the anniversary celebration of St. Anne’s Episcopal Church. Whi...
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