Andrew McGowan
@praxeas.bsky.social
Teacher of students, baker of bread, writer of books. Anglican, Australian in the USA. Early Christianity specialist. On Quinnipiac land at Yale. Opinions my own. Weekly lectionary comments at abmcg.substack.com
All you Prayer C peeps...
And @praxeas.bsky.social has an excellent dive into Prayer C!
Rite II Prayer C with the Very Rev. Dr. Andrew McGowan
YouTube video by Trinity Episcopal Church Oshkosh
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November 14, 2025 at 7:49 PM
All you Prayer C peeps...
Happy Martinmas. Thank you for laying down your arms, sharing with the poor, and refusing to use state power for religious ends. abmcg.blogspot.com/2017/05/a-sa...
A Saint, His Cloak, and Us
St Martin’s Day falls on November 11th. Coming at the end of autumn, Martinmas was a traditional time in Europe for agricultural festivals...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Happy Martinmas. Thank you for laying down your arms, sharing with the poor, and refusing to use state power for religious ends. abmcg.blogspot.com/2017/05/a-sa...
I'm developing the theory that public "therapy" dogs are meant to deal with the trauma created by the "WORKING DOG DO NOT PET" thing.
November 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
I'm developing the theory that public "therapy" dogs are meant to deal with the trauma created by the "WORKING DOG DO NOT PET" thing.
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After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...
ICE again prevents Chicago Catholics from bringing Eucharist to immigrant detainees
More than 2,000 faithful gathered to pray outside the Broadview ICE Detention Center Nov. 1, but the group's main request — to bring Communion to detainees — was rejected by federal immigration offici...
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November 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
After repeatedly requesting permission and following all the official guidelines, Catholic bishop, priests, sisters and lay people were refused permission to distribute Communion to migrants in ICE detention center, on All Saints Day. A religious freedom issue: www.ncronline.org/news/ice-aga...
Bully. Thug. Liar. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Trump punishes Canada with 10pc tariff increase over TV ad stoush
US President Donald Trump says he plans to hike tariffs on imports of Canadian goods by an extra 10 per cent because of an anti-tariff television ad aired by the province of Ontario.
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October 25, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Bully. Thug. Liar. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
The private bribe being paid for defense forces, just like Trump’s treatment of the White House as private property, reveal the basic agenda for this regime - to align political power completely and directly with ownership of capital.
October 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The private bribe being paid for defense forces, just like Trump’s treatment of the White House as private property, reveal the basic agenda for this regime - to align political power completely and directly with ownership of capital.
The US armed forces are being paid for by a wealthy individual rather than the state. What could go wrong?
October 25, 2025 at 12:20 AM
The US armed forces are being paid for by a wealthy individual rather than the state. What could go wrong?
Further to this it’s now become clear that the Gafcon primates’ meeting was held in…Sydney.
Why the Global South isn’t leaving the Anglican communion : abmcg.blogspot.com/2025/10/no-g...
No, the "Global South" Has Not Left the Anglican Communion
Part of the DNA of Anglicanism is the autonomy of national churches. This principle led English church leaders of the 16th century to suppor...
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October 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Further to this it’s now become clear that the Gafcon primates’ meeting was held in…Sydney.
Why the Global South isn’t leaving the Anglican communion : abmcg.blogspot.com/2025/10/no-g...
No, the "Global South" Has Not Left the Anglican Communion
Part of the DNA of Anglicanism is the autonomy of national churches. This principle led English church leaders of the 16th century to suppor...
abmcg.blogspot.com
October 17, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Why the Global South isn’t leaving the Anglican communion : abmcg.blogspot.com/2025/10/no-g...
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We stand together — elected officials, business leaders, the faith community, law enforcement, educators, and more — in our opposition to the abuses of power by Donald Trump's administration.
We're telling this unwarranted and unconstitutional occupation to stay out of Chicago.
We're telling this unwarranted and unconstitutional occupation to stay out of Chicago.
October 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
We stand together — elected officials, business leaders, the faith community, law enforcement, educators, and more — in our opposition to the abuses of power by Donald Trump's administration.
We're telling this unwarranted and unconstitutional occupation to stay out of Chicago.
We're telling this unwarranted and unconstitutional occupation to stay out of Chicago.
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One of the most effective things you can do to damage Christianity is to stand before the world, with a crucifix around your neck, and lie.
October 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
One of the most effective things you can do to damage Christianity is to stand before the world, with a crucifix around your neck, and lie.
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Bishop Sarah Mullally has been named the next Archbishop of Canterbury. What gifts does she bring to the role? What does this mean for the Church of England and the Anglican Communion? Helen King ( @helenking.bsky.social ) & Andrew McGowan ( @praxeas.bsky.social ) share their thoughts ⚓
The Next Archbishop of Canterbury: Hopes, Challenges, and the Future of Anglicanism
YouTube video by All Things Necessary
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October 3, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Bishop Sarah Mullally has been named the next Archbishop of Canterbury. What gifts does she bring to the role? What does this mean for the Church of England and the Anglican Communion? Helen King ( @helenking.bsky.social ) & Andrew McGowan ( @praxeas.bsky.social ) share their thoughts ⚓
The sulky GAFCON response to Mullally for Cantuar reeks of grumpy old white men not getting their way. Those lurking with the check books know it will weaken their attempts to stop other national churches ordaining women as priest and bishop. Their coalition depends on…1/
October 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The sulky GAFCON response to Mullally for Cantuar reeks of grumpy old white men not getting their way. Those lurking with the check books know it will weaken their attempts to stop other national churches ordaining women as priest and bishop. Their coalition depends on…1/
Reminder:
The Canterbury election thing may be a mess, but the Archbishop of Canterbury is not a quasi-pope, and the Communion functions perfectly well without one. Pray for your diocesan bishop first anyway, not Cantuar.
October 3, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Reminder:
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Trump's “peace” plan shows Netanyahu has outmanoeuvred yet another American president
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
Benjamin Netanyahu has outmanoeuvred yet another American president
For all US President Donald Trump's boasts about ending wars and being a worthy candidate for a Nobel Peace Prize, he has failed to end the war in Gaza and build a sustainable future for both Israelis...
www.abc.net.au
September 30, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Trump's “peace” plan shows Netanyahu has outmanoeuvred yet another American president
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...
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Anyone else been put in Facebook jail recently? I remain suspended for no apparent reason.
September 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Anyone else been put in Facebook jail recently? I remain suspended for no apparent reason.
Slip of the tongue led to the Trump version of Morning Prayer, Suffrages A: “Let not the greedy, O Lord, be forgotten…”
September 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Slip of the tongue led to the Trump version of Morning Prayer, Suffrages A: “Let not the greedy, O Lord, be forgotten…”
This Ryder Cup fiasco is a foretaste of a generation of young men whose have been told that Charlie Kirk’s views and Donald Trump’s integrity provide an acceptable example. This is going to get much worse.
September 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This Ryder Cup fiasco is a foretaste of a generation of young men whose have been told that Charlie Kirk’s views and Donald Trump’s integrity provide an acceptable example. This is going to get much worse.
Note that these deployments, and the increasingly-exaggerated descriptions of cities as war zones, are the prelude to declaring (and creating, if needed), circumstances where (e.g.) free elections could not be held.
September 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Note that these deployments, and the increasingly-exaggerated descriptions of cities as war zones, are the prelude to declaring (and creating, if needed), circumstances where (e.g.) free elections could not be held.
On Luke's Gospel and Kirk, among other things: substack.com/profile/2099...
September 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
On Luke's Gospel and Kirk, among other things: substack.com/profile/2099...
I wake to the near-tragedy of a Geelong loss in the AFL Grand Final and here is Nick Hornsby in @nytimes.com reviewing (very nicely) Helen Garner’s “The Season” and telling me, the reader, that Australian footy is a game “in which you almost certainly have no interest.” The irony.
September 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I wake to the near-tragedy of a Geelong loss in the AFL Grand Final and here is Nick Hornsby in @nytimes.com reviewing (very nicely) Helen Garner’s “The Season” and telling me, the reader, that Australian footy is a game “in which you almost certainly have no interest.” The irony.
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Ed Luce's FT column this morning is pure brilliance.
September 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Ed Luce's FT column this morning is pure brilliance.
“And if any man do a cruelty in my name, then, though he says the name Aslan, it is Tash whom he serves and by Tash his deed is accepted.”
September 23, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“And if any man do a cruelty in my name, then, though he says the name Aslan, it is Tash whom he serves and by Tash his deed is accepted.”