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New Indie Book Now Available
Siobhan’s newest book, the product of her Phd work, is of interest to “Indie-philes” as it is a historical exploration of the links between Western esoteric Christianity and the Independent Catholic movement. Priests, Gnostics & Magicians traces two particular streams of esoteric links in the indie movement, first the link with French Gnostic movements, Martinism [...]
Happy Anniversary!
Today is the 6 year anniversary of Siobhan’s ordination. Talk about an auspicious feast to be ordained on (Transfiguration). Many Years! Tweet
Welcome Siobhan
We’ve been sitting on this for a few weeks now – whilst some loose ends were tidied. On 15 March Rev. Siobhan Houston joined the community. Siobhan was ordained by +Martha Schultz in 2003. She’s a Denver resident, and is working to build a community there. Siobhan was one of the first interviewees for the [...]
A Day of Infamy . .
On this day in 1994 – the Synod was founded. How cool is that! Come to think of it – it is rather amzaing that we’re still going! We’ve had the typical ups & downs of any community, and quite a few “pruning” exercises – but for an OC/IC community to last this long is [...]
Theophany 2009
For God had to manifest himself in a new way – this is how one of the Fathers describes the incarnation. Theophany has come – the manifestation of the Trinity, and of Christ’s purpose in the World. God has come to us in a new way a physical way, one that demonstrates his inexorable solidarity [...]
Why are you here? What are you about?
You may have noticed that the “About” page in the menu bar is, well, blank. In part this is due to my being occupied with other things of late, but it is also blank because I’m finding that it is a more challenging question to answer than I had expected. What can be said about [...]
Housekeeping: Tidy Here, Edit There . . .
We’ve tidied up our LULU storefront, in preparation for some upcoming projects. In addition, a second edition, as it were, of the canons is now available. Three canons have been substantively altered (actually this was done at a synod meeting over a year ago – we’ve just been to busy to actually “publish” the changes); [...]
New Diggs! Normal Programming Resuming!
After a few weeks of testing the new system on my personal blog and site; and spending some time thinking about the best method of consolidation and presentation, I’ve finally begun the process of moving the blog, the web pages, and the Indie Voices Archive to its new home. I’m hoping that I’ve given consideration [...]
Happy New Year!
. . . Well almost. I’m a few day’s late I know, but the sentiment is there all the same. The liturgical new year began on Monday and, at the time, I did not have immediate access to the net. New year, new ideas, new experiences . . . renewal generally. Hey, I like it. [...]
Situs Evaporatii – update
Since the evaporation of my web sites I’ve been “challenged” to look at other options. The option provided by my ISP is unsuitable – however, I’m now looking at an option which would allow me to combine blog and web site and streamline reader’s visits. Thank you for your patience – while this process is [...]
Feast: Entrance of the Theotokos Into the Temple
One of the bigger feasts (it lasts a week) and like many Marian feasts; the Feast of the Presentation is rooted in the 2nd century apocryphal Protoevangelion also known as the Infancy Gospel of James. As early as Origen this text has been treated as being “canonical by tradition” rather than having been included in [...]
London Community Updated
We’ve just finished our annual re-fit of the London community page and invite you to browse around a bit. I’d appreciate it if you could tell me if there are any glitches for your particular browser. Tweet
Grace Catholic – Site Update
Juat a quick announcement – if you’ve not visited our main site recently, we’ve just added some historical resources. Abp. Matthew’s missal, Sr. Augustine’s biography, and Döllinger’s The Pope & The Council, as well as an early history of the movement. These are free to either download in PDF format, or view online with something [...]
Shall We Go Or Wait For Them To Arrive . . . .
In another place I just read a contribution that got me thinking about models of church; in it the author makes an interesting observation – that as much as people say that the “church” is not a place (i.e. the building), their actions or reactions on the ground say otherwise. A number of friends are [...]
Art On the Calendar
In January I blogged about our community’s ongoing calendar reform project, in the context of a conversation some of us were having in another forum about how our various communities adapt the liturgical cycle to reflect our OC/IC situation. In my earlier post I mentioned that it was difficult to find resources offering a varied [...]
Put Yer Stole on Mary!
**** Note: This post has been edited 12 Feb 07 ****** An interesting question was posted in another place with respect of cultivating more unity within the indie community: Assuming mutual respect, and a common acceptance of the basic tenets of the orthodox faith, could the issues of female clergy, and Marian doctrines be considered [...]
Local London Plug – We invite you to join us.
We interrupt this blog to bring you an “important” announcement . . . If you are one of the 20% of UK visitors to this blog, and you live in London (especially SE and Beckenham/Croydon area) I invite you to have a look at our London community web page. We are a small, informal, progressive [...]
He took B-R-E-A-D! It was real BREAD!
Last week we were in Paris for a much needed get away. While there we visited the Cluny Museum which is dedicated to medieval (mostly ecclesiastical) art and artifacts. The museum is well planned and does have some fantastic pieces – ivories, the famous “lady & the unicorn” tapestries, and a great collection of medieval [...]
A Year Full of Feasts
We are nearing the end of the feast of Theophany (8 days) and I’m sitting down to put together the Theophany insert for the web site. While doing this, I’m also working on two other projects including our community’s ongoing reform of the liturgical calendar. A week or so ago on one of the OC/IC [...]
Welcome to Jesus! – film at 11:00
Earlier this year we (my partner in crime and I) acquired a camcorder. It’s been loads of fun for us, but until now we’ve not quite figured out the best way to share our fun over the web. A few months ago we planned a welcome video for the web page. The “scripted” version was [...]
An Exercise in Vanity?
We’ve just published our canons. Some may wonder why such a small community like ours even bother with canons. After all, it is not an unreasonable criticism that this is purely a “vanity exercise.” There are, however, a number of points worth mentioning by way of rebuttal.Regardless of size, all communities develop written or unwritten [...]