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Sometimes we get surprising, and time consuming, challenges, and sometimes several land at the same time.  I set today as a day to return at least partially to normal, though there’s lots of work to be done still.  Don’t worry: no one is diseased, divorced, depraved or dead, and no one here is running for public office (which seems to involve at least some of these calamities).  I might (or might not) answer questions . . .

In the meantime, some disorganized reflections, mostly about the first assembly of the Anglican Church of North America, and the installation of our first Archbishop.

Looking ahead, it seems to me that we who have been, however slightly, engaged with what is increasingly The Very Silly Church (and wisecracks about Presiding Bishop Katherine Littlesquid Airplane F’tang F’tang Bottle-of-Merlot are taken as given) need to be aware that we are damaged, often in ways we don’t understand.  The formation of Christians in what TEC has been flawed for a long time.  A lot of us are carrying around very incomplete understandings of what we’re doing, so heavy doses of humility and kindness are in order.  I’ve been reading a such solidly but old fashioned Anglican writers as Austin Farrer, Henry Chadwick, and Michael Ramsey.  The depth of the Christianity and their knowledge comes like spring rain (and boy, do I know spring rain this year).  The second part to this is the need to give up our pain.  Everyone has taken some damage from the last couple of generations of TEC follies.  Alright.  Time to put that down and move ahead.  Not move on, as the modern lingo puts it.  Move ahead. 

Along with the preceding, we need to realize that Archbishop Duncan’s (and isn’t it cool to finally be able to write that?) Call for a push on evangelism is not only appropriate, but necessary.  We can’t just be lifeboats.  That time is over.  A time when North American Anglicans rediscover what Anglican Christianity is, and shares it with those around us, is beginning.  There are many, many people now who will be surprised at what we have to offer. 

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