Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
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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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 …
I never thought I'd live long enough to read this statement: I realized that if classical theism was to be retrieved, it was necessary to defend the superiority of patristic exegesis, a project I undertook in Interpreting Scripture with the Great Tradition: Recovering the Genius of Premodern Exegesis (2018). By the time I published my …
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There's no doubt that the "exvangelicals" that have populated places like C4SO have made a splash in the Anglican Church in North America. What kind of spash...that's another story. When the ACNA started, some of us thought an influx of same would breathe some new life into North American Anglicanism. Now I think we're having …
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Another bulletin from Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, this time from 1965: As usual, the 1928 BCP/1940 Hymnal was being used. Holy Communion was at 0800 and 0900 but not at 1100. Generally for the latter two services it was done once a month. The Rector was Robert Appleyard, who went on to be Bishop of Pittsburgh …
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Word WST-9021-LP (1964) People who were brought up in the "Old High Church" (Episcopal) will find themselves flooded with memories of Christmas past with this classic from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, with their choir led by Alec Wyton, Organist and Master of Chorister. As was the case, the only instrument allowed was …
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The cover of the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, as it's been offered on Positive Infinity since it was uploaded in December 2003. The church, of course, is Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach, the webmaster's home church, and a suitable backdrop for this prayer book. A little while back I posted The Episcopal Church My Mother …
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The question that continues to vex Anglicanism (perhaps since the time of the Reformation but even more so over the last 200 years) is whether she is…Anglicanism: Reformed Catholicism, Protestant and Catholic This is one of the more intelligent treatments of this complicated subject. I think there are two core problems here. On the Protestant …
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Word WST-9001-LP (1958) There was a time when the "music of the Episcopal Church" was a very definite quantity with a very distinct sound. As the sleeve notes point out: "The Anglican Communion (which includes the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America) draws its music from many sources including the great medieval …
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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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