Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
And she takes her time about doing it too, I'll reproduce just a snippet: Do I personally affirm “the church’s teaching that homosexuality is sinful?” Which church? My own church (local & denomination) is actively reexamining this issue in light of tradition, interpretation, history, & science. I’m participating, but as a historian, not a theologian. …
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Mugshot of Katherine Voronaev during her imprisonment in Soviet slave labor camps, circa 1930s This Week in AG History —November 27, 1960 By Darrin J. RodgersOriginally published on AG-News, 24 November 2021 Ivan and Katherine Voronaev, pioneer Assemblies of God missionaries to the Soviet Union, were exiled to Siberian prison camps in the 1930s and …
“And the Church of England is Protestant too” – William Laud, then Bishop of St. David’s, later Archbishop of Canterbury. Before the mid-19th century…More Laud than Baxter: the Protestantism of 1662
Today is the Sunday of Christ the King, or the Sunday Before Advent, depending on which liturgical calendar you're using. (So let's dispense with the term "the liturgical calendar" as if there is only one.) It's the last Sunday of the liturgical year, and as was the case with 2019-20 it's been a long one, …
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LP-RPRT-101 (1968?) This album occupies a curious place in the "Jesus Music" era in that, in a time when so many albums were self-produced or done on obscure (or not so obscure labels) that disappeared, this one is an official production of the denomination. It was commissioned by the Executive Council of the Episcopal Church …
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Word of God W/G 8019 (1980) One of the interesting aspects of life in Catholic Charismatic covenant communities was the residential sub-communities. The communities were not in general residentially communal; this mode of life was generally for single people. The sub-community of the Word of God here, the Servants of the Word, is described on …
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Why do modern architects hate humanity? The question echoes around one my favourite corners of the internet, Reactionary Architecture Twitter. Powered by a loathing of the modernist and post-modernist built environment, it’s weirdly popular, signalling an about-turn towards traditional aesthetics, which has even seen Britain’s reactionary-in-chief, Prince Charles, enjoying… 1,592 more wordsWhat the poppy really …
Mace M(S) 10030 (1966) Seminary groups--or better, groups of seminarians--had a significant impact on the "Old Folk Mass" the Roman Catholics celebrated, both before and after the institution of the Novus Ordo Missae. The best known of these are the Dameans, but the St. Mary's seminarians made their contribution as well. This one comes from …
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Another Anglican Tidbit, in this case the bulletin from Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church for the Twenty-Third Sunday after Trinity, 1968. Some interesting notes: The liturgy is 1928 BCP/1940 Hymnal, for those of you who are looking for help in using this for current liturgical practice.The two main services are Morning Prayer (they also had Evening Prayer …
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“What does the word bourgeois actually mean? … The word designates a spiritual state, a direction of the soul, a peculiar consciousness of being.” “The bourgeois, even when he is a ‘good Catholic’, believes only in this world, in the expedient and the useful; he is incapable of living by faith in another world and refuses to …
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Positive Infinity 