theophiliacs

I’m a hothead.  I have been as far back as I can remember.  My wife and friends can surely attest to this.  Perhaps it is my fake red-dyed hair, perhaps it’s genes; whatever it is, I’ve been known to fall headlong into being an ass.

Michael Spencer, the famous “internetmonk,” recently wrote a piece about the new Anglican Church in North America.  Somehow, what started on my part as a mere clarification on matters of fact turned into a rather confusing exchange that can only happen on the comment thread of a blog.  The kind where it gets exceeding difficult to properly preface and explain and there is a two-way confusion as to the tone of the other people.  By the end I was left exasterbated, feeling that I had both not communicated clearly and not been understood generously.

In a delicious piece of irony, just as I was feeling ‘ok’ about it, I gave my twitter feed one last check before I went to work the night shift.  Low and behold I was mentioned there and I left angry.

In the end it doesn’t really matter.  As I made a fool of myself in public I might as well do it again.

Michael, for being uncharitable, rude, arrogant, and confusing I apologize.  In the end I have massive amounts of respect for you and am concious of the fact that you have been preaching probably about as long as I’ve been alive.  It’s not the first time I’ve been stupid, and it won’t be the last.