Rock And A Hard Place – An Exercise in the Fundamentals of Orthodoxy

Between a Rock and a Hard Place

By Peter Ould Posted on September 13, 2012 Posted in Church of England, Women Bishops 7 Comments Tagged with Antithesis, Conciliation, Connotations, Consecration, Convictions, Distinctions, Few Words, Fundamentalists, Gentleness, Good Stuff, House Of Bishops, Issue Letters, Letters Of Request, Male Priests, Ordination Of Women, Parochial Church Councils, Rock And A Hard Place, Section 3, Synod, Traditionalists

The English House of Bishops have revealed the wording of their amendment to clause 5(1)c in the Women Bishops Legislation which caused so much fuss in Synod this summer. Out goes, the selection of male bishops or male priests the …

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A Sermon for Ash Wednesday 2010

By Peter Ould Posted on February 17, 2010 Posted in Classical Spirituality, Sermon, Theology, Wholeness No Comments Tagged with Absolution, Ash Wednesday, Baseball Game, Brennan Manning, Eating Meat, First Bite, Good Food, Hot Dog, Hotdog, Initial Experiences, Isaiah 58, Mortal Sin, Moveable Feast, Ragamuffin Gospel, Rock And A Hard Place, Sausage, Sinful Action, Spiritual Journey, True Repentance, Venia, Venial, Venial Sin

Isaiah 58:1-14 Brennan Manning, the Catholic author, writes in The Ragamuffin Gospel about a visit to a baseball game when he was a teenager. Like many people do at these events, he bought a hot dog from one of the …

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Between a Rock and a Hard Place

A Sermon for Ash Wednesday 2010