"How can you initiate someone and then treat them like a half-assed baptized?" - The Rt Rev Barbara Harris Those who know the deep acceptance and love that come with healing and forgiveness can lose the defensive veneer that wants to shut out other sinners. They discover that covering their hair or hiding their tears or hoarding their rich perfume isn't the way that the beloved act, even if it makes others nervous. Katharine Jefferts Schori at Southwarck Cathedral, UK June 13, 2010 "If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman … have faith … there is yet time." ~ From Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes





If you want to protect Holy Wedlock, by all means padlock the church door whenever guys who love Judy Garland come-a-knocking. But if you want to protect marriage push for a constitutional amendment to ban divorce.

From where I sit, the entire Republican Party should head to OZ – looking for a brain, a heart and a pair of testicles.

My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for certain where it will end. Nor do I really know myself and the fact that I think I am following your will does not mean that I am actually doing so. But I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you. And I hope I have that desire in all that I am doing. I hope that I will never do anything apart from that desire. And I know that if I do this you will lead me by the right road, though I may know nothing about it. Therefore I will trust you always though I may seem to be lost and in the shadow of death. I will not fear, for you are ever with me, and you will never leave me to face my perils alone. Thomas Merton

"But remember - you rarely meet a disappointed pessimist."

Immortal words from the mighty wordsmith,

"I'm so glad Mary didn't wait for the formulation of a Doctrine of the Incarnation before she said 'Yes' to God."

"Mrs. Palin needs to be reminded that Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor."

"The gay agenda? It's this: Jesus."

"The difference between Palin and Cheney? Lipstick."

And . . . If that wasn't outrageous enough for you, there's this:"I can only conclude that the social contract that binds us all together in such a single unlikely country is greater than each of us who make it up." Counterlight Ed Bacon, rector of All Saints, Pasadena, CA (and Giant of Justice).("MJR, Michigan" via the NYT comments . I'm guessing she's a woman and an Episcopalian).the Rt. Rev'd Gene Robinson, Bishop of NHSusankay.

"There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity . . .You can smell it. It smells like death."

Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Lord, take me where You want me to go, let me meet who You want me to meet, tell me what You want me to say, and keep me out of Your way. Amen.

Fr. Mychal Judge, OFM, Chaplain, NYFD, First official recorded victim 9/11 attack

"You can call the dogs in, wet the fire, and leave the house. The hunt's over." James Carville after the 2nd Presidential Debate

"Literalism in any form is little more than pious hysteria."

John Shelby Spong, Bishop of Newark, retired

"Start where you are.

Use what you have.

Do what you can."

Arthur Ashe.

"Ask for help when you need it. Take it graciously when it comes. Try not to be disappointed when it doesn't. Be thankful for something every day. Do something for someone else as a way of saying thank you for your life."

John R. Souza