Before you make any joke about it: there was no white smoke ( Read more... )

Synod wrapped up on Tuesday night. As promised, here is the long awaited Fashions of Synod edition. Anglican clergy: know the trends for the coming year!

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It's Synod time again. You may remember my baptism-by-fire first experience of Synod last year, which I helpful dealth with by blogging all the insignificant things here: Fashions of Synod and Synod: ONTD!. If you missed it you can catch the first in the series hereI was really hoping to relay more synod triviality this year but sadly I haven't ( Read more... )

I love being an Anglican. It's not because of the bishops, or the Thirty Nine Articles, or the prayer book, or the baptising of children. It's definitely not because of the odd mish-mash culture of grumpy-loving-complaining-hopeful-closeminded-openhearted-conservative-creative Anglicans here in Sydney. It's not even because of the Queen (although ( Read more... )

It's over, it's over! What an experience. I got to get really tired, and I ran late nearly every day. But I got to see all the secretly cool ministers - the ones who do awesome things (at least according to the NCLS database) but hardly ever get publicly congratulated - and quietly admire their awesomeness. I know they will get a good reward one ( Read more... )

Synod is exhausting. Well, synod plus trying to cram a full working day in before 3pm is exhausting. I'm relieved that there is no more Synod now until next Monday!

Synod: Day 3

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Earlier this year I was elected to represent my church at the Sydney Anglican Synod, the kind of parliament for all the churches. Pretty much if you are an Anglican and you have a blog, you can't help writing blog posts, and so now I feel it's my duty to write something here. Unfortunately many current readers live in places / worldviews where ( Read more... )