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Hometown:
New York City
About Me:
I'm just a guy striving to be honest and faithful in this wonderfully mixed-up world. It can be hard at times.

I am also an Episcopal priest living and serving in the Carroll Gardens neighborhood of Brooklyn. I serve as a non-paid Curate at St. Paul's Church, a great more-progressive and growing Anglo-Catholic parish. I grew up in the Pentecostal / Evangelical side of American Christianity. I find the ancient traditions of the faith Catholic (particularly expressed within Anglicanism - the faith of the British Isles) quite interesting and helpful, as I got fed-up with the trendy and very political nature of current American-Evangelical Christianity. To be honest, I have always been attracted to the idea of “monastic” living – intentional Christian community.
Website:
http://hypersync.net/mt
Favorite Music:
Right now: Sigur Rós, Aimee Mann, Sufyan Stevens, Moby, Eastmountainsouth, Russian Orthodox coral music, Skott Freedman
Favorite TV Shows:
Lost, CSI, Battlestar Galactica, Dexter, Reno 911, Simpsons, and, yes, South Park.

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Misunderstanding

I was watching a video from the Network in the U.S. meeting in Texas this week. The “Network of Anglican Parishes and Dioceses," otherwise known as the "Anglican Communion Network" is the reactionary group of people who oppose the direction the Episcopal Church has been heading
over the past 30 years

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Posted on August 1, 2007 at 10:00am —

Bob Griffith

Another example of a generational sea change...

I've been saying for the last 10 years or so that there is a generational sea change being realized in North America, particularly in the U.S. To be honest, I'm less familiar with what is going on in Canada, but I suspect something similar.



I've said over and over again that the tail end of Generation X, Gen Y, and whatever is next, are of a different temperament when it comes to what resonates with them within the whole Christian melee and spirituality more generally. The Social Gosp… Continue

Posted on April 27, 2007 at 10:27am —

Bob Griffith

Emergent and Contextualization

The following comes from regular e-mail updates I get from Emergent Village (the website for the ongoing Emergent Church conversation). Brian McLeran posted about his experiences this past year traveling all over the world and listening to many different and other voices.

From Brian McLaren:

"I have become convinced of two things in this travel. First, we Christians in the West or North (and especially in the United Stat
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Posted on April 27, 2007 at 10:21am —

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The Threefold Rule

From a review of the Anglican Brevery, by Addison H. Hart in Touchstone.
" My own sincere belief in the importance of the Daily Office was influenced by, among others, the late Anglican spiritual writer, Martin Thornton, whose books (in particular, Pastoral Theology: A Reorientation; Christian Proficiency; and English Spirituality) made a convincing case that the classical shape of a so
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Posted on April 18, 2007 at 2:08pm —

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Posted on March 3, 2007 at 10:52am —

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