East Tennessee Episcopalian July/August 2004: Pass it on

July / August 2004


Pass it on

ST. PAUL, ATHENS — Seen in the parish newsletter, which credits Grace Church, Chattanooga: Why are you an Episcopalian?
1. Worship that brings you in, instead of putting you on the sidelines.
2. A theology that demands intelligence rather than ignoring it.
3. A willingness that takes the Bible very seriously but is not bound by literalism.
4. A strong sense of community in which our consensus is in Christ, not to a conformity of opinion.
5. A devotion to the biblical sacraments instituted by Jesus, which evoke awe and mystery instead of factual explanation.
6. A sense of ministry that is rightfully the obligation and privilege of every baptized person.
7. An insistence upon morality (which is good and loving) and an avoidance of moralism (salvation by code and not by Christ).
8. The heritage of apostolic faith in the gospel of Jesus Christ and in the apostolic order he gave to the church.

ANGLICAN DIGEST — Oxford University scholar and Anglican priest the Rev. William Archibald Spooner was known for saying things not quite right. Some classic “spoonerisms”:
• “There is no peace where a dinner swells.”
• “The enemy fled quickly from the ears and sparrows.”
• “And to a student who missed his history class, “You have hissed my mystery lectures; you have tasted the whole worm!”

BOOKCROSSING.COM — The term “summer reading” can take on new meaning when you check out this Web site, which declares it “gives you a simple way to share books with the world, and follow their paths forevermore!”

Intrigued? It’s so simple: Read a book, register it at BookCrossing.com and then “release it” for someone else to read. You’ll be notified by e-mail each time someone reads your book and records a journal entry for it on the Web site.

In mid-July, more than 17,000 registered books were somewhere in the U.S.A. (121 in Tennessee). Just for comparison, there were 140 in Qatar, 840 in France and 16 in China.

BookCrossing.com is “a reading group that knows no geographical boundaries”!

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