Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
In the midst of the many things--good and bad--that transpire these days, one thing crept up on me that I wasn't expecting and regret to see--the passing of the website commonprayer.org. It was vanished completely since the first of the year. As a person who was raised on and still uses the 1928 Book of …
https://northamanglican.com/the-logic-underpinning-the-eucharist-continued-commentary-on-browne-article-xxix/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-logic-underpinning-the-eucharist-continued-commentary-on-browne-article-xxix If I had to rate the Articles, this one would be at the bottom. Why did this church insist on going against the wisdom of "Good Queen Bess" and insist that the wicked don't receive the Eucharist? This is one of many reasons why I find Anglican Eucharistic theology overcomplicated and, in this case, …
It's official now. It has been my custom to reproduce sentiments of people who have died which I wrote while they're living, and I'll do the same for Pope Francis. First: I would quote from my 2019 piece Pope Francis to Bossuet: Hold My Beer, but it's the best summation of my attitude towards the …
https://northamanglican.com/book-review-what-still-divides-us/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=book-review-what-still-divides-us As someone who has been "there and back again" on this divide (and there are few of us who have made that journey) I think I could add something to the discussion, so here goes: In the first chapter, “How are we Saved?” Maloney points out significant differences in how Protestants and Roman Catholics …
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I've gotten a whiff of a sentiment about the engineering program currently being developed (full disclosure, I'm a participant in that process) at Lee University. I understand that some are of the opinion that it's being brought into the university as a way of moving things to the left. Since I came into Lee in …
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It's done: Late last week, Christian geneticist Francis Collins resigned abruptly as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). On Wednesday this week, the U.S. Senate held a confirmation hearing for a new NIH director, Stanford University medical professor Jay Bhattacharya, a fellow Christian who Collins privately disparaged as one of “three fringe epidemiologists” during the COVID …
https://northamanglican.com/beating-the-bounds-of-anglican-eucharistic-doctrine-commentary-on-browne-article-xxviii/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=beating-the-bounds-of-anglican-eucharistic-doctrine-commentary-on-browne-article-xxviii This is a long exposition of Anglican Eucharistic doctrine that mostly succeeds in making it look complicated. I thought about doing a "blow by blow" on this, but I will restrict myself to referring my readers to my 2020 article on the subject, Overcomplicating Anglican Eucharistic Theology. https://bossuetproject.wordpress.com/2020/10/19/overcomplicating-anglican-eucharistic-theology/?page_id=14108
https://northamanglican.com/reformed-methodist/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=reformed-methodist The "ties that bind" American Christianity are a complex web, and this is a good example of that. It's no secret that the Wesleyan tradition--like John and Charles Wesley themselves--came out of Anglicanism, and had things worked out a little differently the Episcopal Church itself could have stayed together with North American Wesleyanism. But …
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The American media's its usual uninformative self about geopolitical issues, but this video puts many things in a whole new light: https://youtu.be/rCBt4XgCX-0?si=-a6e7iUdUwhxrSP4 It makes perfect sense that the U.S. would want to secure its northern frontier against incursion by the...Russians and Chinese, those people who Trump's enemies have convinced themselves he has sold out to. …
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As Lent fast approaches, I've seen some pushback on X from Anglicans on "why do we do the imposition of ashes on Ash Wednesday as Anglicans?" It's a fair question, and the culprits in the Anglican-Episcopal world are the "more Catholic than the Pope" people, the Anglo-Catholics. In the middle of their preparation for the …
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