Happy Birthday, Wedgie!
Bishop Hoeller has a wonderful must-read article on the Wandering Episcopate; the piece contains one of my favourite lines in modern Gnosticism:
- The seeming promise residing in the wandering bishops is obscured and at times negated by the personal eccentricities and unsavory character of a large number of these bishops. Since consecration to the episcopate is often so easily obtained in the subculture of the wandering ones, venal, unstable, and woefully ill-educated persons abound in the ranks of the "independent" episcopate. Quite a large number of these bishops are simply people one would not wish to invite to dinner.
Bearing that in mind, I raise a glass to Ole Uncle Wedgie, truly an exception to that unfortunate rule. The liturgies of both the AJC and EG run rich with the legacy of the Liberal Catholic Church – +Wedgewood was one of the first to recognize that much of the mysticsm and transcendence the Victorian Theosophists sought in the East was abundant in the liturgical traditions of the West as well.
3 comments:
"He with the biggest pointy hat wins!"
I always think that when I see that picture. :)
We owe a lot to Rt. Rev. Wedgewood.
Huuum! We (Unitarian Universalists) claim that the Wedgewood family is strongly in our camp--I will have to research that a bit. The "crossover" would be perfect however.
Here is a link that alludes to the Wedgewoods--it is Josiah that UUs usually point toward and his biog. on this site is not yet finished. go to
http://www.uua.org/uuhs/duub/articles/elizabethgaskell.html
Cheerfully, Roger Kuhrt
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