Introductions and such...

Greetings to everyone! My name is Ronald E Drummond Jr. and I am a priest of the Anglican Communion in the Diocese of Quincy in Illinois. I currently serve as Missioner for youth and college ministries in the Diocese and live in Peoria, IL. I read blogs often but have never had one for myself and I figured I ought to get a piece of this “blogging” action. Not that I think my mental wanderings are worth anyone’s precious time, but then again, who’s are (as time is precious to us all)? And yet blogging seems to be a great forum for the exchange of ideas and expression of opinions and I hope to use this outlet for my defense of the great truths that have carried God’s One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church through hell and high water (without help from the Zeitgeist, thank you very much). Not only for these, but for the bedrock principles of morality which have sustained western society throughout its existence; namely, the sanctity of life and of marriage and family. As a priest it is my bounden duty to proclaim the gospel Jesus Christ and him crucified as the only name given by which we must be saved. There is no gospel but this... that which the Scriptures bear witness to and which the Church has proclaimed for 2000 years. It is water for the thirsty soul. Anything else, no matter how sincere or well-intentioned, is at best kool-aid for the soul and at worst poison for it. I often grumble to myself about the nonsense that often get passed off as Christianity these days and I have decided that the time for grumbling is past and that I should, if for nobody’s sake but mine, put my thoughts down in writing. So may I offer this as my initial step into the foyer of the blogging community. God bless all, and thanks be to God that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners...of whom I am the chief!

Fr. Ron+