Testing Anglicanism.Dear editor, Keeping abreast of the bishops' deliberations at Lambeth through the Anglican Journal's Web page concerning the place of homosexuals in the worldwide communion has sorely tested my sense of identity as an Anglican. What conceit conceit, in literature, fanciful or unusual image in which apparently dissimilar things are shown to have a relationship. The Elizabethan poets were fond of Petrarchan conceits, which were conventional comparisons, imitated from the love songs of Petrarch, in which and arrogance ands as Jesus said of the Pharisees Pharisees (fâr`ĭsēz), one of the two great Jewish religious and political parties of the second commonwealth. Their opponents were the Sadducees, and it appears that the Sadducees gave them their name, perushim, , hypocrisy, to presume, in the name of appeasing those who cannot abide the thought of blessing a committed homosexual relationship or supporting a homosexual bishop, to strip the right to perform that blessing from those who have prayerfully undertaken it. Save us, God, from the befuddled sentiments of that bishop who is seeking avenues by which we may become friends. We are family, good sir, which is quite often different from friends, and families fight and fracture and yet, in the end, are still family. Rather that and the pain of my brother or sister not feeling able to bear to break bread with me for a time than an insipid, Mr. Roger's view of saccharine sac·cha·rine adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of sugar or saccharin; sweet. , least common denominator least common denominator n. Abbr. lcd The least common multiple of the denominators of a set of fractions: The least common denominator of 1/3 and 1/4 is 12. friendliness. The bishops claim to have moved towards a unifying compromise in the form of a moratorium, partly retroactive in order to give breathing room for the matter to be more calmly settled, but have seemingly forgotten that more than the 200 bishops that boycotted the conference have not moved an inch towards compromise. I wish Philip Larkin Philip Arthur Larkin, CH, CBE, FRSL, (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and jazz critic. He spent his working life as a university librarian and was offered the Poet Laureateship following the death of John Betjeman, but declined the post. were still alive to pen a poem about this governing collective of our communion. Perhaps as a starting point Noun 1. starting point - earliest limiting point terminus a quo commencement, get-go, offset, outset, showtime, starting time, beginning, start, kickoff, first - the time at which something is supposed to begin; "they got an early start"; "she knew from the he could bring to mind his masterwork mas·ter·work n. See masterpiece. , The Old Fools. Perhaps it is time for our Anglican Church of Canada to say to the worldwide communion that we will stand without voice or vote, as separated brethren, and in solidarity with all of those bishops, priests, deacons and laity who are as they were born--homosexual--and come to Christ as they are, a part of the family. Bill Pearson Pitt Meadows, B.C. |
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