Posted in Just for Fun on Aug 26th, 2011
Don’t you sometimes wish you could have a conversation like this? Read it all at MCJ. “You’re leaving the church?! What do you mean, you’re leaving the church?!” “I mean I’m leaving the church. I’m departing. I’m going away. I’m decamping. I’m exiting. I’m escaping. I’m taking my leave. As of next Sunday, I fully [...]
Posted in Just for Fun on Dec 23rd, 2010
…from the blog team. Enjoy!
Posted in Just for Fun on Dec 2nd, 2010
Posted in Just for Fun on Jul 27th, 2010
It’s summer, a good time for things like this. From Sanctus:
Posted in Just for Fun on Jul 21st, 2010
…from Confessions of a Carioca: I confess, there are a couple of these that I don’t get, but what I do get is very funny. Theology Exam Questions You may answer all or some of the following questions. Please turn in your answers before picking up your diploma. 1. Is there such a thing as [...]
Posted in Just for Fun on Jul 20th, 2010
Leaving aside the obvious “diversity”, “inclusion”, “listening” and “conversation”: “birth” as a verb. We are constantly “birthing” things in church: I wish we wouldn’t. “disrespect” as a verb. It may be in the OED, but it shouldn’t be. “empower” – usually we “empower” women. Let’s not, they already have enough power. As James Thurber noted: [...]
Posted in Just for Fun on Jun 15th, 2010
H/T to Stand Firm.
Posted in ACoC General Synod 2010, Anglican Church of Canada, Just for Fun on Jun 2nd, 2010
More worrying news for the ACoC: [Church House: Toronto] [Feast Day of Justin Martyr] The grim possibility of martyrdom may cast a shadow over the Anglican Church of Canada’s upcoming General Synod 2010, says church communications director the Venerable Eustace Smithely-Jones. “The General Synod will be held in Halifax this year”, says Smithely-Jones, “where I [...]
Posted in Just for Fun on May 12th, 2010
ahem We now return you to your regular blog content.
Posted in Just for Fun on Mar 22nd, 2010
We break with normal news for a bit of shameless horn-blowing, as we reach 2 million page views, looks to be about 18 months since the original million. Also over 500,000 unique visitors. Yay us! Heh.
Posted in Just for Fun on Sep 15th, 2009
You wait for days and then five come along at once….
Posted in Just for Fun on Sep 13th, 2009
I could not resist inflicting, um, I mean sharing this with the rest of you. (Well, there hasn’t been a whole lot to write about lately)
Posted in Just for Fun on Sep 3rd, 2009
I found this website as I was poking around the web this morning, and I thought it might be of general interest. From the front page: Welcome to the Anglican Library. The aim of the Anglican Library is to publish new HTML editions of Christian literature from the Anglican tradition and other works that have [...]
Posted in Just for Fun on Apr 1st, 2009
We at the AEC blog have decided that it is time to retire from blogging. We’ll miss you all! Peter David Scott Kate
Posted in Anglican Church of Canada, Just for Fun on Feb 9th, 2009
The relentlessly satirical bi-weekly newspaper Atlantic Canada Frank congratulates Nova Scotia-born The Very Rev Michael Hawkins on his election as Bishop of Saskatchewan on 6 December. At least, I think it’s a congratulation. With Frank, it can be hard to tell. Frank appears most interested in Rev Hawkins’s lineage: His late father George Hawkins was [...]
Posted in Just for Fun on Feb 3rd, 2009
Listen Here
Posted in Just for Fun on Jan 28th, 2009
As an Ottawan, living through day 50 (!!!!!) of a bus drivers strike (and daydreaming of locking the mayor and the union head in a room with no food and water till they work it out), I found this item from the ANiC newsletter particularly funny: In response to the recent British atheists’ campaign of [...]
Posted in Just for Fun on Jan 17th, 2009
Ok, so this may be an old chestnut, but I had never heard it before. From the ANiC Newsletter: Just for fun Elizabeth asked her Sunday School class to sketch a picture of their favourite Bible stories. She was puzzled by Bert’s picture, which showed four people sitting in a plane, so she asked him [...]
Posted in Just for Fun on Dec 27th, 2008
2008 has been an extremely eventful year for Anglicans in Canada and worldwide. Many faithful Anglican Christians have defended the faith in a sacrificial way. Who would you nominate as: Canadian Anglican hero of the year. This could be a parish priest or bishop taking a stand within the ACoC or ANiC, a theologian or [...]
Posted in Just for Fun on Dec 20th, 2008
I don’t know why Scott didn’t post this here, but he didn’t, so I decided to link to it.
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