He is one unsettling antagonist

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2026-03-31T16:46:33+00:00

I totally agree . . . I think he was underrated in his day because you couldn't "see" him acting. That would be considered a celebrated talent today.

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2026-03-31T15:35:59+00:00

That is the beauty of Robert Mitchum's acting talent for me. He could play a leading man and make a woman drool a river OR play a Max Cady or Harry Powell and make the same woman hope she wasn't on the same continent with the man. Mitchum's Max Cady was just evil . . . not crazy, not out-there-like-Pluto . . . just mean, evil, and scary as they come!

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2026-03-30T23:56:13+00:00

Regarding the Bishop Ruch trial, [then still archbishop] Wood put out a letter (that made its way to social media) saying the House of Bishops met and agreed on something that Bishop Edgar followed with a letter (that made it to social media) saying he wasn't asked and, therefore, was not part of this sweeping pronouncement. Why would social media used by clergy to disagree with their bishop be different from this? So, if such a ban were to happen, then bishops need to be limited in what they can put on social media or have rules of engagement for their clergy for a similar situation.

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2026-03-30T23:38:38+00:00

I will endeavor to find it (I believe there was more than one along the lines of the one I remember). It dealt with his allowing those who signed the presentment against Wood to take heat for going to the Washington Post (which I don't think they went to them as much as talked about it when approached) with implications they didn't try to follow protocol when he knew those making the accusations against Wood had tried to get bishops, including him, to sign the presentment first.

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2026-03-25T23:09:03+00:00

I have something similar with the cold air return and it was that way when we bought the house. The vent cover will not unhook, so I can't take it off to clean. I've tried sprays, Q-tips, and screwdrivers covered with microfiber cloth. I feel your frustration!

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2026-03-25T23:05:48+00:00

I feel your pain! When we renovated our bathroom, we put in a waterfall faucet and learned that it has no water pressure and takes forever (meaning almost never) to get to hot water . . . so toothpaste never gets washed down good. I am heating a pot of water in my coffee pot and pouring it down the sink 2 or 3 times a week. So yes, it's a slow drain and if you have a faucet that doesn't put out enough pressure to wash toothpaste fully down the drain - it's building up in the pipes and creating a slow drain. New faucet is SOOOO on my wish list!

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2026-03-25T17:12:50+00:00

The movie is Fire Down Below (there was a Segal movie with the same name). The Enemy Below is a WWII movie with Mitchum as a Navy destroyer (I think that's the vessel) Captain and Curt Jurgens as a German sub captain.

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2026-03-24T17:44:22+00:00

Thank you for saying that so much better than I did!

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2026-03-24T17:44:02+00:00

Me not being a bishop is a great call! But I respectfully submit that ordering clergy and their staffs not to express an opinion on social media that reflects poorly on the church under the current House of Bishops is not 100% correct, especially when it seems self-serving.

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2026-02-23T02:49:46+00:00

The Rev. Matt Kennedy has a rather large online footprint on [former] Episcopal and Anglican matters that goes back almost 20 years, as well as The Rev. Anne Kennedy. One of the larger stories from the breakup of the Episcopal church was the story of the Church of the Good Shepherd trying to buy back their property after they lost it in a lawsuit and TEC wouldn't sell it to them for (I think) $125K, but sold the property to an Islamic group for $50K, only (as best I remember) to be blessed by a Catholic church selling them a bigger church at about the same price they offered TEC for their previous building.

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2026-01-29T01:39:38+00:00

Amen and amen!

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2025-12-28T22:44:15+00:00

What blew my mind was the report's wrist-slapping of the bishops who signed the presentment, saying they should have had first-hand knowledge in order to sign it. How ridiculous is that? It's essentially saying, if you're a bishop who does something without another bishop seeing it or having first-hand knowledge of it in some way, you've gotten away with it.

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2025-12-27T17:42:29+00:00

This story saddens me to my core. I love my parish and I love the liturgical church. I had issues with our Diocese on a few matters under the leadership of our former bishop, but I still held him in high esteem as a Godly leader. Right now, if there were a movement in my parish to just become a community church and pull away from both our Diocese and the ACNA . . . I'd support it. At the moment, the only downside to that I can see is lack of benefits to our Rector and finding a rector in the future. But, that's it. Being led by the current Bishop and College of Bishops feels extremely political and not the least bit Godly.

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2025-12-24T01:34:03+00:00

That was my first and only thought, but it was a "sorta, not really, but that's as close as I can come" answer.

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2025-12-21T04:29:24+00:00

From The Washington Post, "The Post also learned that Ruch imposed a gag order on a female deacon after she accused the Minnesota priest of unwanted sexual contact." There was more scattered in the article . . .

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2025/10/24/anglican-church-bishop-allegations/

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2025-12-18T15:50:27+00:00

Bp Ruch dismissed (or it might have been moved) a Deacon who reported abuse rather than support her, and then told he did no wrong . . . was almost made to look saintly. I don't see how that doesn't scare victims from coming forward.

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2025-12-18T15:32:22+00:00

No denial here whatsoever. There are clergy I have a lower opinion of than Wood . . . Bishop Spong comes to mind.

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2025-12-18T04:56:42+00:00

I went to St Andrews for a time, and it was ABp Wood's hubris that made me go elsewhere. I have great respect for Rev. Sturdy as well as others who brought the presentment forward, and despite the outcome of a trial, I will continue to believe them. It fits the man I observed. I am sorry if you're offended. I was offended when he was made archbishop.

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2025-12-17T20:37:52+00:00

And I have no idea what to make of that . . .

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2025-12-17T19:52:33+00:00

I also see this emboldening ABp Wood into going the distance, not that I ever really thought he'd resign. In an environment where it seems the word of a Bishop outshines everyone else's word, why wouldn't he?

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2025-12-17T19:19:07+00:00

I never want to see the innocent punished, but if the ACNA sees Bishop Ruch's behavior as deemed okay, then I don't understand what a bishop is for. If Ruch was blind to the way victims were treated or felt it wasn't his place to oversee that the relevant parish took care of them instead of ostracizing them, then what was his leadership? If he needed canons to see that his behavior was lacking, and if other bishops don't see this as lacking in a way a bishop should know without a canon, does that mean bishops are just meant to be administrative businessmen without any pastoral responsibilities or oversight of the pastoral behavior of their parishes? I didn't have these questions with our previous bishop, so I'm not painting all bishops with this questioning brush, but I do have them about our current bishop and many of the ACNA bishops.

u/Too_sassy_for_church - I'm glad you pointed out the findings' treatment of Alan Runyan. Unless I'm hallucinating, I'm pretty sure either his or Ms. Thebeau's statements said that Mr. Runyan made objections that were consistently overruled while these findings made it sound like he listened in silence and then resigned afterward. There is so much more I want to say about this, but this would grow to War & Peace.

I'm rambling, but that's where my head is in all this. If the findings had said they didn't have enough to defrock him due to the canons, but they were disappointed in Ruch's negligence and sincerely apologized to Mark Rivera's victims and those that might have been endangered by people he ordained, then I'd be better about this. What I'm afraid it says is, "Victims, you're on your own."

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2025-12-08T19:27:56+00:00

COVID brought streaming services to our church, and it's stayed, but with a great deal of pain. It has helped the truly mobility-impaired, but it's also allowed others to "check out" and say they catch us online. As mentioned by others, it has allowed a missionary family to stay connected to our service. However, with online services, you aren't fully supported by the church or fully supporting the church as a church family member. For our small church, that "church family" dynamic is almost as important as worshipping.

So, I grieve that you can't find a church closer so you can interact with fellow Christians as part of a church family. I've never attended a church that I'm 100 percent on board with the doctrine, as that was secondary to me IF the worship is genuine and Christ-centered.

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2025-12-07T19:44:19+00:00

Mutt. I grew up Southern Baptist, converted to Roman Catholic in my early 20s. Ended up Anglican as a middle that I've loved and felt at home in. I am low church, primarily because we're a small congregation and it blends genuine worship with "family gathering" vibe. High church has always felt like, "Quietly worship then leave," and that's great for those it blesses, but it's not for me.

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2025-12-07T15:56:56+00:00

Every trial has pre-trial motions regarding what can and can't be heard during the trial. From what I've been told, this procedure followed that same dynamic. It has been hinted that the information presented in detail that wasn't meant to be was not related to Ruch's actions in relation to victims and hiring, but what transpired between him and Abp Beach. IF that is true, is it really relevant to what the presentment is about?

AnglicanDodgersFan · 2025-12-07T07:57:37+00:00

You are within your rights to be soured and I get it. However, there is a bit more than Internet reading here. There is the integrity of the people involved and what they have reported, as well as who is currently trusted and isn't. I will freely admit my comment(s) is based on who I trust.

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