Stone of Witness: Wall Street Journal is beginning to look like FAUX

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Wall Street Journal is beginning to look like FAUX

I have seldom seen such unfair reporting on the Episcopal Church in a major US newspaper as I did in this article. (excluding FAUX, of course). I have seen the neo-conservatives publish this kind of drivil but I have seen few major newspapers report such a load of bunk as this guy. The ad homonym comments about our Presiding Bishop and the nasty way that this article reeks of those who have left the Communion to participate in the me-me dimension of Christianity top-heavy with bishops that we are exporting to Africa and beyond. This guy may call himself an Episcopalian but it is clear that he has had little or no experience of the Episcopal Church that I have known and loved for the past 40 years . He has not found in his attendance and participation in the sacramental ministry of the the Church a degree of Christian community that would change both his own life to that of caring for others.

I don't know why I really think that the Wall Street Journal should be better than other media venues, but it once had a respected editorial polity. Evidently it is no longer the case. I tried to leave a comment on their on-line editorial, but of course it is no longer allowing such thing. Damn, I am getting tired of this kind of crap!

2 comments:

Fran said...: Did you read the New York Times today, on Sunday? Ross Douthat, a reporter and a co-religionist of mine, who I have zero use for, skewered TEC and pointed at all left-leaning Christians as well.; July 15, 2012 at 9:36 PM
Muthah+ said...: Fran, These guys are young enough not to remember the 1950's but they want to go back there. They don't remember the segregation, the Commie scare, the Baby Boomers glutting the schools and churches and the subjugation of women that kept the '50's in place. I don't think that they have ever been in an Episcopal Church or been part of the community of faith that is Us. I am glad to find that Douthout is one of yours--he tends to write like he is one of us, but he doesn't know what and who we are. I had a sneakin' suspicion he had not been in one of our churches in a LONG time.; July 16, 2012 at 10:23 AM

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"Faith is different from theology because theology is reasoned, systematic, and orderly, whereas faith is disorderly, intermittent, and full of surprises.... Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than a hunch. Faith is waiting." Frederick Buechner “I realized that an oyster is an organism that defends itself by excreting a substance to protect itself against the sand of its spawning bed. The more sand in the oyster, the more chemical the oyster produces until finally, after layer upon layer of gel, the sand turns into a pearl. And the oyster itself becomes more valuable in the process. At that moment,” I said, I discovered the ministry of irritation.” Joan Chittister

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So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin' ass and celebratin' the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was.(Molly Ivins 1944-2007)

Dorothy Sayers (Creed or Chaos?)

Let us,

In Heaven's name,

drag out the Divine Drama

from under the dreadful accumulation

of slipshod thinking

and trashy sentiment heaped upon it,

and set it on an open stage

to startle the world

into some sort of vigorous reaction.

If the pious are the first to be shocked,

so much the worse for the pious

--others will enter the Kingdom of Heaven before them.

If all men are offended because of Christ,

let them be offended;

but where is the sense

of their being offended at something

that is not Christ

and is nothing like Him?

We do Him

singularly little honor by watering down

'til it could not offend a fly.

Surely it is not the

business of the Church

to adapt Christ to man,

but to adapt man to Christ.

Just Something to Think About...

"The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision." (Lynn Lavner, an American comedian and musician from Brooklyn, NY). and...none of the six came from Jesus

"Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness." - Karen Armstrong

"A church that doesn't provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn't unsettle, a word of God that doesn't get under anyone's skin, a word of God that doesn't touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed — what gospel is that?"

-Archbishop Oscar Romero

"If the truth be told, my attitude towards all gatherings of bishops is to avoid them. I have never seen a good outcome to any synod, or asynod which produced deliverance from evils rather than the additionto them … rivalries and manoeuvres always prevail over reason … and intrying to decide between others it is easier to get accused ofwickedness itself than to deal with their wickedness. Consequently Ihave withdrawn to myself. I consider retirement to be the only meansof saving my soul." Gregory of Naziansus (bishop, 4th century)

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision." (Lynn Lavner, an American comedian and musician from Brooklyn, NY).