[Magdalen] Magdalen archaeology and lore--FYI

[Ann Markle]

I think I stuck with Anglican at American.edu for the entire time, until we
were kicked out by American.edu.  I noticed that that forum was diminished
when so many dear friends departed, first for St. Bede's, then Magdalen.  I
was thrilled when I finally made the transition, and found my "family"
almost completely here!

Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu


On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 3:32 PM Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have some memory of the Compass Rose Pub aka Magdalen in formation.  I
> could be wrong, having been simply carried this way and that on the
> currents of change. So long as everyone was still out there I don't think I
> thought much about the hows and whys of it.  Which is absolutely not meant
> to be ungrateful!  I have met wonderful people, some electronically and
> some face to face, and I wouldn't trade that for the world.  My life has
> been much richer for this group by whatever name since the earlier 90's.
>
> Marion, a pilgrim
>
> On Mon, 8 Aug 2022 at 15:21, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Bless all of these dear people
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 1, 2022 at 8:47 PM Brian Reid <brian at reid.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > In case anyone cares, some "where did Magdalen come from, and when?"
> > > information.
> > >
> > > The Magdalen email community was created in April 2002 by Molly Wolf,
> > > Gillian Barr, Mary Jane Anderson, and Jim Handsfield. It ran on a
> > > dedicated server computer that was purchased by Molly Wolf. The server
> > > was registered at Roger Stokes' home in England. All of the tech and
> > > legal work was done by Brian Reid, but he was intentionally not part of
> > > the Magdalen management because he couldn't be seen as taking sides in
> > > the ongoing disputes about Anglican mailing list communities.
> > >
> > > The magdalen at herberthouse.org mailing list was launched on 8 April
> 2002
> > > and announced on 10 April 2002. When Mary Jane died, Molly got drawn
> > > into personal issues, and Gillian into professional issues (and then
> > > seminary and ordination), Jim and Brian ran it. Mostly Jim. When Jim's
> > > wife Marcy developed a terrible and terminal illness, Brian took it
> over
> > > and has been the list administrator ever since. The server moved from
> > > the care of Roger Stokes in England into Brian's data center space in
> > > California once the chief antagonist died (no one except that person
> > > really cared where the server was or who ran it).
> > >
> > > Many people contributed significant labor to Magdalen, especially Peter
> > > Owen.  And maybe some folks I can't remember because they contributed
> > > while I needed to be invisible (before our antagonist died).
> > >
> > > I'm pretty sure I am the originator of the term "pub" for it, but 2002
> > > is a long time ago and my memory isn't what it used to be.
> > >
> >
> >
> > --
> > The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among
> > you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the
> > land of Egypt.
> > Leviticus 19:34
> >
>