Category Archives: Anglican

Cartooning at Lambeth

In the midst of my present chaos, taking care of all my regular stuff and still trying to write and research three “in works” blog posts, I came across this on The Lead.  It turns out that at the major Anglican “A-list” Bishop’s conference this summer at Lambeth Palace, there will be a cartoonist to “capture” the event.  Have a look at featured cartoonist Dave Walker’s web site/blog cartoonchurch.com.

While his subject may originally be the Anglican church, there is so much universal humor at church-related topics in these cartoons that even the “frozen chosen” can find a lot in there to laugh at about themselves.  These are not so much side-splitting ROTFL cartoons as they are a humorous look at the way the church runs.  For example, in his cartoon of the “Parochial Church Council” I can put names of some of the members of my church’s session on those people, including finding my wife in the bunch.  The group does lack a “polity wonk” or “polity fundamentalist” like me, unless that is the “inspirer of tangents and pointless discussions.”  There are a bunch of other great ones on the site, but check out the one on “What the clergy do all week.”

This blog has now been added to my reader.

I can’t remember a General Assembly being cartooned as a regular practice.  Sure, some political cartoons have come out of it, but not as a regular daily, focused, product like this is.  But we did have that great whimsical commentary by Houston Hodges during GA, including “Some Assembly Required.”

Who owns the Web Site — A New Property Battle in the Web 2.0 Church

Over the last couple months a number of events have transpired related to the Episcopal and Anglican Diocese(s) of San Joaquin in California.  Briefly, the Diocese voted to realign from the American Episcopal Church to the Anglican Southern Cone, the American Episcopal Church appointed a new provisional bishop to shepherd the remaining Episcopal faithful, and over the weekend The Episcopal Church held a service of healing and forgiveness Friday evening and a special convocation and service of celebration Saturday that included the confirmation and installation of Bishop Jerry Lamb as the provisional bishop of the diocese.  The Episcopal Diocese is now gearing up to get their property back from the realigned Anglicans.

While all of that was expected the surprise of the weekend, as reported by VirtueOnline, is that the web site of the Anglican group, www.sanjoaquin.anglican.org, has been replaced by a redirect to the Episcopal Diocese web site at www.diosanjoaquin.org.  Details of the switch are not clear yet, but the Anglican site is safe, now at the address www.sjoaquin.net.  Something happened at their web host, anglican.org and the details are not complete yet.

As a geek, web builder, and network administrator, I curious about some of the details and hope more come out.  However, it serves as a lesson that in the Web 2.0 world the church’s property includes not just brick and mortar but names, addresses, and on-line content.  You have been warned.