Last week I took a page from "cassock and surplice" Anglicanism--the funeral of World War I flying ace Manfred "Red Baron" von Richtofen--to show what "1662 BCP" Anglicanism looked like in a celebrated event. The significance of my slighting the alb was well understood. So I guess a little "equal time" might be in order. …
Same-Sex Civil Marriage: Not Quite Ready to Go for Broke
The famous (if unlikely) team of Boies and Olsen are backpedaling on their case to overturn Proposition 8--and establish same-sex civil marriage by national default: The two high-profile lawyers who started the nation’s most significant lawsuit attempting to gain marriage rights for same-sex couples told the Supreme Court on Friday that it might find it very interesting …
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The Difference Between Salafis and the Muslim Brotherhood
On a recent edition of Stakelbeck on Terror, he discusses with Tawfik Hamid the difference between the Salafis and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. (That discussion starts at about 13:30 into the video below). http://dl2.cbn.com/cbnplayer/cbnPlayer.swf?s=/Archive/News/Stakelbeck_Terror_082112_WS Five years ago, I got into an extended email debate with an Indonesian Salafi. One of the points he tried …
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The U.S. and China: Passing Each Other in the Night on Academic Freedom?
Students in China are caught between two systems, one Marxist-Leninist and one capitalist. The result is this: The curious collision of ideological coercion and material opportunity births a conformity-breeding exhaustion. To resist the constant current of ideological homogeneity requires relentless energy and vigilance: to remember that no matter how compelling the words of the anchor …
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The High Price of Anti-Semitism
I've put off writing this piece for a long time. The subject is sensitive for a number of reasons. But given the things going on both here, in Europe and the Middle East these days, perhaps it's time to visit this subject, although I'd be the first to admit the example I'm presenting isn't the …
Cassock and Surplice Anglicanism's Finest Hour…
...or at least one of them: the burial of Manfred von Richthofen, the "Red Baron", on 22 April 1918, at Bertangles, France. He was buried by the Australians, as is clear from the uniforms. I don't know whether the chaplain, doubtless holding the 1662 BCP, was English or Australian, but the Anglican Church in Australia …
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The Reformation and Missions: Theology and Doctrine
From J. Herbert Kane's A Concise History of the Christian World Mission: One would naturally expect that the spiritual forces released by the Reformation would have prompted the Protestant churches of Europe to take the gospel to the ends of the earth during the period of world exploration and colonisation which began about 1500. But …
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Federal Agencies and Ammo: Make Sure You Don't Overlook the Important Thing
Federal agencies such as NOAA and the Social Security administration are trying to contain the excitement over their substantial ammunition purchases: Obscure federal agencies triggered a firestorm of conspiracy theories this week after they put out orders for thousands of rounds of deadly hollow-point bullets. But the agencies, most recently the Social Security Administration, are …
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Watchman Nee on the Inspiration of the New Testament
In perusing much Evangelical and Charismatic literature, one gets the impression that the "mantic" theory of the inspiration of the Scriptures is the "correct" theory and anything else is the product of "liberals". I dealt with this in the book I co-authored with Leonard Albert, Apologetics for the Rest of Us. A very cogent presentation …
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Going to the Mat with the Town of Palm Beach for Religious Freedom
Temple Emanu-El hangs tough: In an Aug. 10 letter to lead code enforcement officer Rob Walton, attorney Marvin Rosen - a past president of the synagogue - stated: “any attempt by the town to limit, through its zoning code, the number of worshippers that can be accommodated in a house of worship would constitute an …
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