August 1, 2005
Apology
Apologetics, they say, has naught to do with saying you’re sorry. Of course, neither does saying you’re sorry have much to do if anything with regret, rather is it, I suppose, an adjectival form of sore.
The current miasma in our diocese is caught up in the throes of a bishop search to elect in March 2006. Two members of the Search Committee of fifteen (all appointed by the currently enthroned [sic] bishop) visited our parish yesterday. Whether they anticipated it or not, I’m not sure, but they were invited to apologize for themselves, that is, to make a report on and a rational defense of their work to date.
Some twenty of us met with them following the Eucharist. It was an eye-opening jolly old time. I’ve heard of Come-to-Jesus meetings, and now I’ve been to one. I suspect that when the bishopers left, they may have been sorry they came.