In 2015 the PhD program I was going through nearly collapsed. We lost fifteen faculty members and key staff people in as many months. Needless to say, that produced consternation among the students, most of whom came from outside the United States. They did not understand our system (and honestly until I consulted with some […]The …
Holy Week Wishes, and Some Announcements for This Site
It's been some time since I've had an original post, and posting may be sparse for a while longer. There are some important changes afoot for this site: Two of the features of this site: the Palm Beach Experience and The Island Chronicles--are moving to Chet Aero Marine. The reasoning for this is complicated and …
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Death Is Not the End — The North American Anglican
Sometime in the early 1980s, just about the time Bob Dylan was recording Infidels, a little girl in Shreveport got a plush toy as a gift from her dad. It was vaguely Easter themed—a plump oval, the bottom half a colorful sateen eggshell, the top half a fat, fuzzy chick. It was adorable, just the…Death Is …
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Why Russians hated the Nineties — UnHerd
The Nineties were a time of American hegemony and British cockiness. The internet was a utopian idea as opposed to a collective psychological disorder. Climate change, terrorism, autocracy and gross inequality were either not-on-the-radar or assumed to be moving in the right direction. 1,750 more wordsWhy Russians hated the Nineties — UnHerd
The Preaching of St. John the Baptist — The Bossuet Project
These elevations are about St. John the Baptist’s preaching, discussing the time before Our Lord came to him for his own baptism. Bossuet also discusses John’s place in Old Testament prophecy. The elevations are as follows: The Preaching of Saint John the Baptist. 1, The word of God is addressed to him. The Preaching of Saint […]The …
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Anglican Tidbit: Bulletin for the Fourth Sunday in Lent
The last in our series of bulletins from Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church is this one, from 1966. Bethesda Bulletin for the Fourth Sunday in Lent 1966 As usual, notes are in order: The Rev. Joseph N. Barnett was an elderly Episcopal minister who assisted at service. One time he observed that "Sitting is the privilege of …
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Wonder Where Evil Comes From? Try the Mirror
Giles Fraser says something that all too often gets overlooked: But this much is obviously true: evil and suffering have outlived the loss of faith. Once we had God to blame. But now that God has gone (… other explanations are available …) we have no one left to blame but ourselves. Not for earthquakes, …
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The Hippie Dreamers’ “Last Stand” in San Francisco
Well, we can hope so: After three members of San Francisco’s Board of Education lost a special election in a landslide vote, many of the city’s residents were hesitant to predict the same fate for district attorney Chesa Boudin, who faces a recall referendum in June. Boudin has backers with broad influence and deep pockets—but a new …
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Have we reached peak trans? — UnHerd
Is it really too much to ask those who struggle to define the word “woman” to refrain from running for public office? Ketanji Brown Jackson, Joe’s Biden’s nominee for the Supreme Court, was asked to provide the dreaded definition during her confirmation hearing on Tuesday. “No I can’t,” she replied. “I’m not a biologist.” Jackson…Have we …
Our Obsession with Credentials
Growing up with an obsessively patriotic father, one of the advantages he gave of our society over the one we separated ourselves form (and I mean the United Kingdom) was that, while the UK elevated people based on their credentials, ours did so based on what they actually accomplished. Whether his characterisation of the UK …
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