Traveling Mercies!

Please do enjoy a well-deserved break!

Personally I’m thrilled for Kendall that he’s taking a break.  I just can’t even imagine going about 4 years without missing a single day of blogging.  Just astounding.  This is a break that is truly well-earned! 

The blog will still be running during Kendall’s absence at his request.  Anything posted by me or other elves will always have the “by the elves” tagline.

Kendall also has some posts set up for this week in the “pending post” queue.  This elf is also working on some posts.  But for the next two weeks, we really will value and need “extra pairs of eyes.”  Send us any story ideas or news tips to: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)

I think we’ve got some good posts lined up.  It’s a privilege to be a part of this blog and to have Kendall’s trust and encouragement to help cover for him on the blog while he’s away. 

Hopefully we won’t trash the place too badly while he’s gone

—elfgirl

Have a wonderful time!  There is nothing in the world wrong with putting a sign on the door and saying “Closed for summer vacation”.  Hope you all have a grand time.

Dr. Harmon will always be able to find a blog but his children will be gone too soon. God bless him for a very good decision.

I vow to eschew sarcasm and my ugliest afronteries (it NEEDS to be a word) if at all possible.

May God grant memories to the children and an ever-increasing good character as well.

DonGander

Good luck, Kendall. Ephraim is over in Oxford but he left before the attempted terrorist attacks. Gonna’ be a headache.

Kendall wrote, “Remember I told you I am the type of person who goes to bed every night just a little sad.” This reminds me of the sermon this morning preached by Rev. Annette Brownlee. In particular, she quoted JRR Tolkien:

Actually, I am a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic;
so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’
- though it contains some samples of final victory.

and also the rendition of Harvard’s Dr. Paul Farmer of Partners in Health:

We want to be on the winning team, but at the risk of turning our backs on the losers, no, it’s not worth it. So you fight the long defeat.

Hopefully, the whole sermon will be on the Ascension website.

Slacker.

Godspeed.
KTF!...mrb

Blessing to you and the family, may you all have great vacation, my the Lord give you His protection and rest.

(shhh ... elfgirl, ... when’s the party???)

Al Kimel has closed up shop at Pontifications.  Brad Drell is considering the same, I fear. Kendall is on vacation.  (Maybe I’ll use this time to get some writing done for my own blogs!)

Rev. Canon Kendall,
May God protect and bless you and your family throughout your travels, and return you safely to our shores. Have a wonderful time in England.

Kendall and Radner are going to the like minded bishops meeting at Oxford—lets hope the likes of the Bishop of Rochester can stir their hearts into action so that the realignment will take place swiftely and completely—-the future, if left to the other ‘conservatives’ like Ohl, Parsely, Henderson and company, will be nothing more than a very cnmpromised othodoxy sharing truth claims with the likes of KJS, O’Neill, Smith, Bruno and Chane-and that is no future at all…

Dr. Harmon,

I am new to the blog and blogs in general.  I would hate to count how many hours I have spent here over the past two weeks.  I appreciate the reality check early on this new medium. 

Have also looked at the Choose This Day videos.  It would be nice to have some longer ones on your perspectives.  Videos or audio files.

Every blessing to you and your family, and I suppose for all of us too, on your trip.

Kendall, Please, please relax and enjoy your time in London with your family.  Some of my most memorable times ever were when we went to London, one time in particular, while we lived in Egypt.  That trip coincided with my youngest son’s eleventh birthday.  All of us remember that special occasion.  Hamley’s, Foyle’s Book Store, plus all the tourist’s regular stops.

The most memorable was when we walked down Regent Street toward Piccadilly and my youngest said, “Dad, Englishmen sure have to go to the bathroom a lot.”  I asked why he thought that and he pointed at a sign that said, “To Let” which he mistook for “Toilet.”

I wasn’t as dedicate to my work as you are, but I know how much it meant to me and my dear wife to travel with our two boys.

Be safe!  We love you so much for your dedication and service to our Lord Jesus Christ.

Bon voyage, Kendall.  Have a wonderful adventure with the family over there in the UK and save plenty of time for r&r.  (I’ve found that it takes a good week to unwind and let go of my job or the real world before I can truly begin to enjoy my holiday.)  Praying for travel mercies for ya’ll! 

I have often wondered what Kendall does all day long. What does he actually DO? Does he just tend this blog? How does one tend a blog? Does he actually have a job in some usual sense? If so, what is it? Maybe the elves (who know everything and see everything) can tell me. Larry

Welcome to Oxford!  Nice to have you here among us!  Maybe we’ll bump into each other under the dreaming spires….  Right now I need to head to the Bod and the Theology Faculty Library to try to finish up a chapter to give to my supervisor….  Sound familiar? 

Blessings on your trip!

Richard Hooker (#13), well said and TRUE.

Dr. Harmon,

I appear to have been unable to fulfill your request, but no doubt you be able to find a copy of the 30 June issue of *The Tablet* on your own, although I don’t know where to suggest looking in Oxford.  When I lived in London I used to pick up the latest issue on Fridays at Westminster Cathedral or at the cathedral bookshop.

Behold the Tablet:
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/issues/1000055/

Someone said

And since *The Tablet* is, and had been since 1968, a notorious organ of dissent within the Catholic Church, I would no more trust its ascription of improbable sentiments to His Holiness (without full bibliographical documentation of their provenance) than I would its ruminations on contraception, WO or any other theological topic.

‘Fraid its wet here Canon Harmon so bring your brolly and boots.

Dr. Harmon,
For a real treat, take the family to Porlock Weir down in Somerset on the Bristol Channel and take the walk along the wooded cliffside to Culbone Church, the smallest parish church in England.  It’s a beautiful spot and a lovely walk. 

Have a wonderful time and I hope the security situation over there doesn’t adversely affect your plans.

Things to do on a wet holiday with the family:
http://www.ukstudentlife.com/Ideas/Events/July.htm
Henley is not too far from Oxford by train.  Change at Reading and Twyford or special trains run from Paddington.

Larry Morse (#17), I may not be an elf, but I do know that if you want to find out more about Canon Harmon and what he does, you can check out his bio (link found near the top on the right under “About TitusOnenine”) at http://titusonenine.classicalanglican.net/?page_id=14327

Safe voyage…