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Sydney Anglicans trying to outst Canterbury?

what I don't get is that Jensen has apparently offered episcopal oversight to conservatives in Canada (there's conservatives in Canada? who knew?). Doesn't that go against the very concept of diocesan organisation- which is older than the Anglicans and, for that matter, older than the Roman Catholic Church as we know it???

and secondly, assuming that as a conservative Anglican bishop you neither want to see the church slide into dangerous liberalism, nor splinter into morally divergent blocs, isn't it counter-intuitive to remove a conservative church from an already liberal diocese? Wouldn't you want to offer them partnership, training, brainwashing, and the like, in order that they might remain a strong conservative voice in their corrupted diocese? This article is tracing links between Jensen and conservatives all over the globe- in the cases of individual churches, rather than whole dioceses or even nations, isn't taking them under his wing doing exactly what he says won't happen- creating two parrallel Churches within the Anglican Communion?

Very Short Stories (WIRED magazine)

in the great tradition of the micro-story (i think this is the shortest i've seen yet): http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.11/sixwords.html

some selected amy favourites:

( Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so. - Joss Whedon )

On God

Jack Marx today quotes Prof. Terry Eagleton, who, in a critique of the new anti-religious book 'The God Delusion', described God thusly:

"... while faith, rather like love, must involve factual knowledge, it is not reducible to it. For my claim to love you to be coherent, I must be able to explain what it is about you that justifies it; but my bank manager might agree with my dewy-eyed description of you without being in love with you himself ... God is not a person in the sense that Al Gore arguably is. Nor is he a principle, an entity, or 'existent' ... He is, rather, the condition of possibility of any entity whatsoever, including ourselves. He is the answer to why there is something rather than nothing."

The Marx article

The Eagleton review

which also includes this great line: These days, theology is the queen of the sciences in a rather less august sense of the word than in its medieval heyday.