For a while now Jim Naughton has been doing yeoman’s duty as voice of the liberal wing as a kind of counter to T19 and Stand Firm. But he’s based out of one diocese and has a bunch of other things on his plate.

As he reports—things have changed. As of yesterday there is an Official Mouthpiece of TEC at EpiScope.

I find it a bit disconcerting. It seems to have a personality—but no identity. If you’re going to be personal, use “I”, and refer to in-jokes, tell us who you are. At least come up with an official pseudonym. There’s also no response mechanism. What’s up with that? (I, of course, am counting on their use of Google Alerts on their own name so this serves as my response. Hi there!)

Furthermore, it seems to feed in to the current polarization problem with its list of Anglican blogs “to the left” and “to the right”.

We’ll see how it develops…

A Blessed Feast of the Purification of the BVM to you all…

It’s an In-Between Day.

Morning Set List

Kyoto Song (Cure)

Garden of Arcane Delights (Delerium)

Strange Day (Cure)

Battle of Evermore (Zeppelin)

Watching Me Fall (Cure)

World in My Eyes (Cure cover of Depeche Mode)

Lithium (Evanescence)

Etc…

Here’s something red—because M told me this morning it’s women’s heart health awareness day (or something like that). Everybody—check your hearts…

I’m digging the poetry carnival bls is hosting. I’ve got a couple rolling around and this should prod me to finish them. One uses a fairly rigid and complicated French form. I think it has a limited range of expression but can be quite cool if done right for expressions that fall within that set. We’ll see…