If you're as exhausted as I am by the General Convention '06 & Aftermath coverage, and you just want the "short version," here is a great site: http://philippians-1-20.us/gc2006.htm
What I'm Reading Now
Robert E. Webber: Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail: Why Evangelicals Are Attracted to the Liturgical Church
The next time someone asks me why I changed denominations (from Baptist to Episcopal), I'm just going to give (lend?) them a copy of this book. It says pretty much everything I want to say, and then some. (*****)Dallas Willard: The Divine Conspiracy : Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God
This is getting to be an annual thing with me ... Every year, I find new gems in this book. Dallas Willard is both profound and accessible - a rare quality indeed. (*****)Paul Elie: The Life You Save May Be Your Own : An American Pilgrimage
I bought this in hardcover last year and am just now halfway through it. Not an easy read, but rewarding. This is a work that Publishers Weekly calls a "masterful interplay of biography and literary criticism" that examines the lives and work of four great 20th century Catholic American writers: Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day and (my personal favorite) Walker Percy. (****)Brian D. McLaren: Generous Orthodoxy, A : Why I am a missional, evangelical, post/protestant, liberal/conservative, mystical/poetic, biblical, charismatic/contemplative, ... anabaptist/anglican, metho (EMERGENTYS)
I've read some of McLaren's other books (The Story We Find Ourselves In, More Ready Than You Realize, A New Kind of Christian), and while I don't always agree with his conclusions, I do agree that the questions he asks are important. But then, I suspect that's all he's really after. (****)HarperCollins Spiritual Classics: Teresa of Avila : Selections from The Interior Castle (HarperCollins Spiritual Classics)
I got this excerpt from Teresa of Avila's The Interior Castle because it had a introduction by Dallas Willard, but now I'm hooked. Even across five centuries, her explanations of how we progress in the journey to Christlikeness are completely relevant. (****)
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One of my daily must-reads - answers the question "what do journalists do when confronted with religious issues?" 
Interesting take on the "DaVinci Code" controversy.
I regularly read a weblog from an Anglo-Catholic in the Diocese of Western New York who was studying to become an Episcopal priest, and he said he's leaving the ECUSA because of Jefferts Schori's election. I feel really bad for him, altho it doesn't surprise me at all because he's constantly complained about the ECUSA.
It's interesting to see Central Florida in there; my grandmother is Episcopalian and is in the Diocese of Central Florida, and I attended an Episcopal church with her when visiting her a few weeks ago.
Posted by: Alex | June 29, 2006 at 05:40 PM