Day: October 3, 2011

The girlfriends’ clergy companion

5 Comments / The Lead

When I started seminary and began envisioning myself as a clergyperson, I started looking at the style of women pastors, particularly women head pastors. And I noticed that virtually without exception, they had “The Haircut.” The Don’t-Think-of-Me-as-a-Woman-Think-of-Me-as-a-Pastor haircut.

Occupy Everywhere

5 Comments / The Lead

Can anyone out there enlighten us on the moral and ethical case that the Occupy Wall Street protestors seem to be making against American capitalism, and whether it stands up to scrutiny?

Bishop Sauls’ proposal, IV: the balance of power

The Lead

Bishop Saul’s presentation has raised concerns about whether authority in our church might be concentrated in far fewer hands. A few suggestions, then, aimed at making sure that every alternative is explored as we attempt to develop a leaner bureaucracy while insuring that all orders continue to share authority in governing our church.

A word on our seminaries: Consolidate!

16 Comments / Daily Episcopalian

Consolidating formal theological education in a single seminary (or even two seminaries) shifts the institutional paradigm from weakness to strength and from survival to mission. Mainline denominations that do not make this shift fight a losing rearguard action, trying to sustain a nineteenth century model in a twenty-first century world.

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