Sometimes I just love Sundays

A weird and wonderful Sunday. I found out my father had sold the old scooter (which he had bought for us when we went camping - way back when I was in high school) and I skipped church but yet had a church related get together tonight.

Right now I'm feeling a certain sense of contentment, I'm sure as I awake in the morning and realize it's Monday again, that feeling will certainly decrease, but hopefully only so much.

Right now everyone is asleep, Tom, the dogs. As they should be, it's almost midnite. I should be asleep long ago. But I'm not.

I'm here thinking about the beauty and tragedy of life. Someone who is close to a dear friend of mine, died of a heart attack yesterday.

Life can be so brutal, so short.

But yet, it can be so wonderful, beautiful.

And it's all we have right now. What happens next is such a mystery but I trust it's way better than anything that happens here.

Female bishops in the Church of England

The Church of England has approved women as bishops:

http://anglicanfuture.blogspot.com/2008/07/cofe-synod-passed-motion-on-women-in.html

and

http://www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk/

I almost made a reference that the 'mother church' had decided to follow the path of it's 'child' (The Episcopal Church) in deciding it was after all, ok to consecrate females as bishops. Then I remembered the first bishop in TEC was actually consecrated by the Scottish Episcopal Church.

Nevertheless it is a striking development, there are quite a few evangelical clergy in the Church of England who are quite opposed to such a move. Since this vote just came through today it remains to be seen what exactly they will do.

This definitely puts another spin on the entire Anglican Communion, what with most of the provinces that hate TEC so much also being strongly opposed to female priests, much less female bishops. The horrors! They'd hate to have to actually listen to a woman or a gay man and treat them as an equal.