Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
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
And they did: Nobody expected Rick Warren’s appeal to be successful—not even Rick Warren. But he still stood up in front of 13,000 Southern Baptists gathered in New Orleans to make his case. “No one is asking any Southern Baptist to change their theology! I’m not asking you to agree with my church,” he insisted, …
As he has passed earlier today, I'll once again revert to my custom of featuring posts I wrote while he was living. Let's start with Pat Robertson vs. the "Shepherding Movement", where he took down this movement. Unfortunately, thanks to people such as Bill Gothard, the Shepherding Movement rolled on in other forms, as is …
Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance are uniting to introduce legislation announced Thursday to reduce the risks of large bank failures. The Failed Bank Executives Clawback Act would propose harsher penalties for failed bank executives, which serves as a bipartisan response to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in early March, according to Warren’s office. …
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A woman who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault during the 2020 presidential race appeared Tuesday in Moscow and said she was asking President Vladimir Putin for Russian citizenship. Tara Reade, who worked in now-President Biden's congressional office for a short period in 1993, said she wanted to stay in Russia after a Republican lawmaker told her …
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