Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Timothy Fountain's piece That Golden Age of Porn is an honest piece on the era of 1969-1984 when porn was distributed freely (thanks in part to SCOTUS) in print and in theatres. Porn was a major disseminator of the sexual revolution. Tim's major contribution in this piece, however, was to remind everyone of the routine …
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To his army of ardent followers, Tom Holland has a unique ability to bring antiquity alive. An award-winning British historian, biographer and … The shadow of Pax Romana
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2023/07/07/the-question-of-a-weltanschauung-sigmund-freud/ This is the last in Books and Boots' series on Sigmund Freud, where Freud presents one of his most wide-ranging polemics against Christianity. Reviewing that polemic leads the author to find Freud wanting in his critique, to say the last. Although he gives his own reasons, I have a different take on why Freud's …
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2023/07/05/future-of-an-illusion-and-other-writings-on-religion-sigmund-freud/ Another (maybe the last) in this series. It shows that, even for people sympathetic with Freud's project, his atheism doesn't have as strong of a case as he--or those who continue to make that case--thought it did. Includes a summary of a dialogue with Oskar Pfister, a Swiss pastor's son who made a case …
Daniel Martins' long piece on the road from GC 2003 until the formation of the ACNA--and beyond--ends in this way: A priest I know wrote many years ago (and I paraphrase here), “There are two cardinal rules: You don’t change the faith, and you don’t break the church.” The Episcopal Church, in redefining marriage, has …
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https://northamanglican.com/free-to-do-otherwise-commentary-on-browne-article-x/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=free-to-do-otherwise-commentary-on-browne-article-x Long-time followers of this site know that this is a very serious issue with me. As I explained in my post/video Liturgy, Pentecost, Wesley and the Book of Common Prayer, Part I: What is a Liturgy?, I do not believe that Anglicanism--and by extension those churches founded on Wesleyan theology, such as Holiness and Pentecostal …
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2023/06/28/the-question-of-lay-analysis-sigmund-freud/ This is probably as good of a summary of Freudianism as I have found. What we would probably call today "Cultural Freudianism" was the most powerful force driving American thought (such as it was) in the 1960's and early 1970's. I also think it has ruined our culture by turning life into a hypersexualised …
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This week has brought mixed news for beleaguered Ukrainians. Their army’s counteroffensive is taking a heavy toll on its own troops; there have been … Eat, Pray, Get Cancelled
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