I've done many posts on this site over the years. If I look back, say ten years ago, many of those deal with the same issues that we fight over today. Our media on both sides of the political divide are, as my mother used to say, like geese: they get up in a new …
Further Thoughts on the Elizabethan Settlement
Being a bishop and a parish clergyman, I basically do not have that much time for systematic research, so many of the things that I find out come to me accidentally. For example, earlier this week I was looking for something on the Württemberg Confession and Google produced an article entitled “Lutheran Influences on the…Further …
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Denmark Embraces Secular Blasphemy
That's what it looks like: 'I think we will have that in the next two months, and then I hope the infection will start to subside and we get our normal lives back,' she said on Monday. Before the start of the last semester I wrote a piece entitled Teaching Secular Blasphemy, where I pointed out …
Can France resist tribalism?
Algeria haunts France as Ireland haunts Britain. The spectres of its history have proved just as hard, or harder, to confront. Imagine, for example, …Can France resist tribalism?
For a New Year: Isaiah 43
It's a New Year, and with each new one we seem to need more fortifying than ever. This classic comes from Canada, and it's a cover of Cathy Zawaki's moving "Isaiah 43." https://youtu.be/EOQdgcLcE6U The entire album where the Word of God recorded this is here: https://youtu.be/EdTcRXyK9ac Happy New Year!
The Why and How of Translating Elevations on the Mysteries
Translating Elevations on the Mysteries has been a major project for me, now it is done. Some explanation as to why I did it and how I did it is in …The Why and How of Translating Elevations on the Mysteries
Leonidas Polk Memorial Carillon, and Some Thoughts on the Confederacy
RPC JZ-88441 (1967) Few people think of a carillon as a music instrument, but it really is one. As the back cover attests, it's played with a keyboard, in this case by William Lyon-Vaiden. Many of the details about the carillon can be found in the back cover, which you can see while playing Side …
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How science has been corrupted
When I was small, my father would conduct experiments around the house. When you blow across the top of a wine bottle, how many modes of vibration are there? How do you get the higher notes? Another time, the matter under investigation might be the “angle of repose” of a pile of sand, as in…How …
A Thirteen Year-Old Opines on Christmas
The thirteen year-old was me, and I wrote this for the Palm Beach Day School's student newspaper the Portfolio Flyer, Volume II Issue X dated 18 December 1968: 1,972 years in the past, in a little Israeli town called Bethlehem, probably one of the most important events in the history of the world occurred. Mary …
Deconstructing Santa Claus
A little while back I posted The Bad Little Bunny: An Easter Tale, where I made my teacher hopping mad at my refusal to go along with the conventional wisdom. (Another Chattanoogan, Jon Meacham, got accused of putting a bullet in the Easter bunny, so maybe my incident needs some re-evalulation.) Evidently there's something about …
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