I guess I've made the big time now, as I'm officially "banned by Jake" at Father Jake Stops the World (http//:frjakestopstheworld.blogspot.com). Jake is an unrepentant revisionist/progressive/reappraiser, whose main weakness is an inability to keep from taking an argument personally. If he feels that he is getting the worst of an argument, woops, you're gone! If you support the progressive agenda, and agree with Jake, or only mildly disagree, then you are OK. However, if you do not, well, look out. He is much more likely to ban someone than are the elves at Titusonenine or the commenatrix at Stand Firm. Now, I must say that a lot of what I may say, and the way I say it here, would get me warned at T19 or SF, or result in comments being deleted. I am likely to call a gay person a fag, poof, queer, or sodomite, or anyone who deserves it a gobspit. I give credit for my colorful vocabulary to my years in the Army, especially my assignments in Infantry Divisions. I firmly believe that the major cause of stress is the mind overriding the body's basic need to choke the living feces out of some anus who richly deserves it. Now, lets be clear here, I make a distinction between people, all God's chilluns, and their behavior. Fr. Jake (real name: Terry Martin) as a person is deserving of respect and love, and our prayers. On the other hand, he plays the ass with astonishing regularity. SF has a poster, taomikael, who plays the ass all the time. He acts a right gobspit with most every post; a close second is merseymike, another sod who claims not to be Christian, yet hangs out at a reasserting blog playing the troll and the ass as well. Since they are courteous when posting their drivel and spit, then they get to stay. Terebinth I haven't quite figured out, since he is all over the map on his posts, but he is another who acts a gobspit often.
So far I haven't decided whether or not I will surf blogs for interesting material to post and praise or damn. Posts from people who support TEC and its leadership are easy to damn, and I'll undoubtedly enjoy it. So, if I say some one is an ass or gobspit, that just means that he or she is acting like one. I think ad hominem attacks are despicable, so if I can't argue with someone, I won't call them a name, unless I already have ex ante. I won't do it to come out on top in an argument.
Which brings me to responding to posts. I may or may not. I may or may not keep an archive of discussions. It depends on how busy I am and whether I think it's worthwhile. IOW, if the marginal costs exceeds the marginal benefits, then tough noogies. I am the boss here, and I decide. If you don't like it, well, I reckon you don't like it.
By the way, my favorite two blogs are T19 and SF, followed by Drell's Descants and Transfigurations. The Midwest Conservative Journal is in a class of its own. Lots of good stuff there, and readers can expect reasoned discourse. Me, I like reasoned discourse, but I have less patience than those folks do.
Peace, love and joy! Tomorrow ++Peter J. Akinola will install +Martyn Minns as missionary bishop for the Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA), in spite of her squidness and the ABC both asking him not to. I must say, the Archbishop has a set.

What about this blog?

This might be the hardest part, trying to describe what I intend to accomplish, other than pleasing myself by expressing honest opinions. I'm not sure that the world needs another reasserting Episcopalian blogger, but here I am. This as a selfish endeavor, to be sure. I plan to be up front about my opinions and feelings, so several readers (assuming that there are any) will be deeply offended. Tough. I have read the US Constitution, and I find no right to not be offended. I read once that Martin Luther was known to argue points of theology loudly and in vulgar street language. He was a passionate man, no doubt. I will probably use some salty language to describe people and situations who I believe richly deserve it. I will also praise people who deserve it.
I am a traditionalist, reasserting Episcopalian. I joined the church at my wife's encouragement. She has been Episcopalian since adolescence, and, I must admit that the beauty of the worship was what first attracted me. I grew up in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, and love worship in a liturgical church. I read the Articles of Faith, noted that Episcopalians used the Apostles, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds, so I thought it would be a short leap from LCMS to TEC. Apostolic succession, while not scriptural, is still a neat thing, and the idea of bishops is neat,too. I have always been drawn to Roman Catholic liturgy (especially the Tridentine Rite, pre Vatican II) and its hierarchy, but I can't abide a number of doctrinal issues. Pardon me for digressing. I found out a few years ago that the church I joined didn't exist. TEC is a shadow of what it has been, both in terms of membership and influence in the USA, and its practices. TEC, since Bp. Pike, Bp. Righter, and Bp. Sping, Women's Ordination, and the 1979 BCP, has watered down its teachings and by now has become more like the Unitarian-Universalist church with liturgy. There are bright spots here and there, especially the Anglican Communion Network, the American Anglican Council, Forward in Faith- North America, and the Dioceses of Ft. Worth, San Joacquin, Quincy, South Carolina, Dallas, among others. There are parishes trying to maintain orthodox teaching and worship in the midst of heterodoxy, in dioceses led by apostate and heretic bishops. In fact, the presiding bishop of TEC is exposed by her own words as a heretic, espousing at least three in her first interviews as PB: pelagianism, gnosticism, and syncretism. Whenever I hear her speak or read what she has written, I am reminded of the old SNL routine, when Dan Akroyd would say to Jane Curtin "Jane, you ignorant slut!"
I don't recognize the pb, or any female "bishop", for that matter, of having valid orders. Therefore, when I refer to the pb by name, I'll use her academic title, Dr. , as she has an earned Ph.D.in marine biology. I may even call her the "squishop" or "her squidness", as her speciality was squids.
I don't think that traditionalists or reasserters in the blogosphere could have asked for a better choice for pb, or "the gift that keeps on giving".
In fact, I'm not sure she even has a clue. I suspect that her chancellor, David Booth Beers, really runs things. Pluriform Frank Griswold ("the Grizz"), her prececessor kept a leash on DBB, but it appears our Kate is putty in his hands. Speculating further, Louis Crew, or "Queen Lutibelle", founder of Integrity (the fag lobby in TEC)is probably an eminence gris to the pb-ess, pulling some strings himself.
I will surf blogs and post items of interest here, always with source attribution, and make a few editorial comments. Watch this space.

After the Ball

After the ball is over, what then? The punch is all gone, the champagne stale, and the streamers have all fallen to the floor. The band has already packed up and gone, and there you are in your tuxedo or ball gown, left to contemplate the remains of the evening. I think that perhaps the Episcopal Church's leadership will feel that way come October 1, or at least by Lambeth 2008. Only, it is likely that they will be trying to get into the Lambeth ballroom, all dressed up and no place to go. Their party is over, and they can't get into the next one. The high priestess, (her squidness), and the court jester, the poofter with a pointy hat, will be standing there at the door, and the bouncer says, "Sorry, if you don't have an invitation, I can't let you in. You don't have an invitation. If you don't move on out of the way, I'll have to call security." And there they will be, wilted flowers and all.