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"memory takes a lot of poetic license. it omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart." :tennessee williams, "the glass menagerie"

1.09.2017

Just back from a few days in Orlando at a conference for work. Sunny, mid-seventies, a gentle breeze. I spent a couple of hours by the hotel pool, with bare feet and sunglasses on, and finished Alan Jacobs’s history of the Book of Common Prayer. Then back to Chicago, to 6 degrees Fahrenheit and the heaps of gray snow.

I enjoyed the Jacobs immensely. History and theology, lovely strong words, and controversy about worship. The BCP is very beautiful and I’m grateful to God for it. Of course its provenance is a messy story. It’s sad to find that the words that mean so much to me as "the tradition" are derided by the traditionalists. That’s irony for you.

Tonight I have to go to a pub and talk about confession. That would probably sound like a nice evening to lots of people, but it feels very uncomfortable to me. I’d rather talk in a church, without beer. I’m going to work in the line, “When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said ‘Repent,’ he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.”

posted by ethan  # 1/09/2017 05:20:00 PM

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