Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
This week is here: it's the week we commemorate the twenty-fifty anniversary of the jihadi attacks of September 11, 2001. That event, coming in the wake of my mother's death the preceding December, put me in a funk for a good long while. Some of that funk was relieved when the Church of God Chaplains …
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In 1976 I made a month-long trip to the UK. At the end of this I headed to Heathrow Airport for the flight back to Miami and from there home just up the coast. Originally written in 2006, I'm reposting this with a few modifications on the fiftieth anniversary of the flight and of the …
Ten years ago, I received my PhD and published this. I don't do much "practical life advice" but this was an exception. I trust it will be helpful. It may seem an odd time to do a pseudo-graduation piece. Obviously the University of Tennessee thinks so: this weekend I am supposed to officially receive my …
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https://northamanglican.com/the-methods-and-effects-of-the-oxford-movement-on-missions-in-victorian-england/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-methods-and-effects-of-the-oxford-movement-on-missions-in-victorian-england This is an excellent post and I commend it to my readers. The way Anglo-Catholicism has gone--especially on this side of the Atlantic--one wouldn't normally associate it with missions but here we are. I have a couple of comments to make: It was not enough, Pusey argued, based on Romans 10:14, for Bibles to …
Well, it's that time again: at the end of the month the Church of God (at least some of it) meets in Orlando for our General Assembly. From a formal procedural standpoint it's a two stage process: first the General Council of ordained bishops meet to debate and pass on appointments and resolutions/changes to the …
This weekend is the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It is a divisive event this time because we are not in agreement about what kind of country we should have. It's not the first time we've celebrated such a milestone under duress: the Bicentennial in 1976 took place in a …
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The North American Anglican has given Colletti his opportunity to respond and he does so with Colletti: A Response to My Critics. His response mostly stuck with those who were given an opportunity in the North American Anglican itself. I've said most of what I want to say in my pieces The Cattle Have Already …
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I was intrigued to read Jordan Cooper's Substack post on this topic. As someone who did a Tiber swim back in the day and then left it behind, the renewed interest in Roman Catholicism is certainly familiar. My years as a Roman Catholic left a deep imprint on my life and the way I look …
The recent "there and back again" of Artemis II is an achievement, even if it only beat the previous record by a small proportion. It's tempting to say that "we've done this before" but that should be tempered by two facts: the fact that we did it after a half century gap when the learned …
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