Our brother Luiz and the Daily Episcopalian

Make sure to go read today's Daily Episcopalian where our brother and friend Luiz Coelho has an article published about iconography. It is an excellent article and the first of two parts.

Prayers for Michael Jackson

It has been reported that Michael Jackson suffered a cardiac arrest and is in a coma. According to sources, "It does not bode well for Michael.'

Regardless of our feelings about him, we should pray for him and his family.

UPDATE: The LA Times and CBS news are reporting that Michael has died.

Strategic Planning and the Episcopal Church

"The Episcopal Church is at a watershed moment." So begins the plea by the Strategic planning committee for Episcopalians to complete a brief on-line survey.

We have the opportunity to become a truly multicultural church and are poised to effectively reach the "spiritual but not religious" in new ways. Technological and cultural changes sweep our planet at an ever-increasing pace. Never before has it been easier to spread our message. Never before has it been more critical for our message to be shared.

Folks, if you want your views known by the leadership of TEC, this is your chance. You have the opportunity to shape how we advance as a church. "Your voice sacred."

Your response will shape the decisions made by the Strategic Planning Committee as it drafts a plan for consideration by the church. The results of this survey will be publicly accessible this fall.

Please take three minutes and visit this site and take the strategic planning committee survey. This is a chance to make your views known to the national church.

A wee roll of the drum, please

In the midst of moving, nursing my arthritic feet aggravated by the packing and standing and moving, and trying to keep abreast of the schismatic circus, I overlooked a very important event in the life of our blog-brother at The Wayward Episcopalian.

Nathan has graduated from Dartmouth. My heartfelt congratulations to Wayward on this very important event. He is now educated!

What ever Nathan chooses to do, he will enrich that profession. I hope that that future includes a vocation to the priesthood. He'll make a smashing deacon, or priest, or eventually, a bishop.

Congratulations, my friend. All blessins on the new journey.