Superior Scribbler Award from Kirkepiscatoid: Gracias!!

Kirkepiscatoid was kind enough to award me the "Superior Scribbler" award back in November, and I was pretty lame to not acknoledge it and pass it along to my five nominees. I think she caught me in a "end of term," "getting ready for dozens of Advent services" kind of time, so at long last, Gracias to Kirkepiscatoid!

Many thanks!


The guidelines as to how each ¨Scribbler¨ must, in turn, pass the Award on are as follows:


The Award may be passed on to FIVE deserving Bloggers (my choice).


Each Superior Scribbler must in turn pass The Award on to 5 most-deserving Bloggy Friends.


Each Superior Scribbler must link to the author & the name of the blog from whom he/she has received the award.


The envelopes please....


The winners are...


Steve, at draught-ing theology, has a great blog in which he reflects on the Sunday lectionary readings, comments deeply and intelligently about the Church, about the Episcopal Church as well as the Emerging Church. Steve is a priest in Alabama who spends time each week doing "draught-ing" theology -- that is -- discussing theology and such things in a local watering hole. Beyond all of these things, Steve is a great priest and a respected leader in our church. I read his blog daily, and feel blessed to call him one of my friends.

Check out his blog!

John, at "Reverend John's Spot," is another wonderful priest in our church who blogs daily (yes, I said DAILY) about the daily readings in the "Daily Office" - the readings of Morning and Evening Prayer from our Book of Common Prayer. John is intelligent, an insightful commenter, and is a deeply spiritual (and fun), person, and all of these qualities come through in his writing. He is a priest in our nation's capitol, and is doing wonderful things. His blog pops up daily for me, and I enjoy it a great deal.

Do check it out!


Caminante, no hay camino, is a blog written by a priest in my home state of Vermont who has recently moved to a new church in the central-Southern part of the state. The priest is extremely well-versed in the goings on of our church as well as of the goings-on in the Anglican Communion. However, these "large" issues do not take the forefront in this blog, more often the writer tends to focus on the way the Spriit is at work in the lives of the people of the parish, and of the everyday struggles and blessings that are our lives.

Do check out this great blog!


The Five Dollars and Some Common Sense, is a blog written by a Ellen Painter Dollar, a wonderful writer who is a mom and a thinker, and a person of great Faith. She reflects on the life of her family, on being a mom, as well as issues of disability. She is a great writer, and has many insightful observations about "everyday" life. As a fellow parent, I really enjoy reading her stuff, and I know that you will too!

Check out her great blog!


Communion in Conflict, is a great blog written by Nathan Humphrey. He is an extremly intelligent priest in the Episcopal Church who is a wonderful theologian and scholar of Anglican Ecclesiology (theology of the "church"). He is wonderfully well-read in the major schools of ecclesiology and has found a pathway between and through these various "camps" and has begun to formulate his own views of an Ecclesiology based in a Communion in Conflict. I read his work with great interest, especially after my own forays into a construction of what I termed a "Dynamic Ecclesiology of Communion." Fr. Humphrey has an important voice in these conversations and I encourage anyone who cares about our Anglican Communion to read his work.

Do check out his blog!

Intensification and Extensification - good ecclesiological words to know!

My friend and fellow priest, The Rev'd Nathan Humphrey, has a very helpful and insightful blog post today in which he explains a possible framework for understanding the rift that exists now in our Anglican Communion . He defines two terms, "intensification" and "extensification" and explains that one way we might understand this rift better (and some possible moves towards unity?) may be to examine the ways that various parts of our Communion pursue one or the other of these methods more energetically...

He says it all better than me, so check out his post HERE...

And here are a few snippits:

From "Communion in Conflict" blog...

"It struck me then that our American brand of Anglicanism in The Episcopal Church focuses on the "extensification" of Anglican identity through inclusion of the marginalized, through valuing tolerance and diversity.

Other brands of Anglicanism, however, value intensification--strengthening the bonds that already exist, not in an "exclusive" way, necessarily, but sometimes the net effect can feel or come across as pretty exclusive.

So it seems to me that, in part, the reaction to The Episcopal Church's efforts at extensification is an intensification that seems to some like a circling of the waggons, a turning inward in self-protection, while from the perspective of those doing the intensification, it is a matter of gaining clarity on one's core identity.

In short, extensification and intensification are two ways of "doing church," each with its own positive and negative aspects. My question is: can one intensify existing relationships while at the same time extensifying oneself in authentic ways so that new relationships are established?"


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