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June 17, 7:16 am

I promised a report on the two hour stretch of time that covered the Larry King Live show and its aftermath.

You may recall that we last left Matt and me kneeling in front of the television, adding comments to the live thread at Stand Firm and viewing 7 members of different denominations duke it out on national television.

I won’t go into analysis of the arguments and effectiveness of the seven warriors. That has already been accomplished in various other online venues. I do need to say something nice about our Presiding Bishop here -- or at least something even-handed. It is well-nigh impossible to explain his theology of “pluriform truths” in brisk soundbytes on a 43 minute show, sharing that space with 6 other people, all the while making it peppy, articulate yet not-boring, and winning. It is also well-nigh impossible to do that with 2000 years of church history and scripture, on the other, traditional side of the fence. It appeared to me that both Presiding Bishop Griswold and Canon David Anderson were dealing with a time lag between the question being asked by Larry King and their actually hearing that question, since they were not in real-presence, real-time with Larry King. I didn't notice it with the others [and not all of them were live either] but I did notice the gap with both of those two. the rest