Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
With Mother's Day coming up, it's always nice to write something about your own. My relationship with mine was complicated. But this post isn't as much about her as about the book she cherished: the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. Her relationship with the Episcopal Church was complicated too, as this vignette attests, but she …
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At least in one case: After a lengthy process of prayerful discernment, respectful conversation, and engagement with the Presiding Bishop's Office and the Standing Committee, the leadership of the Diocese of Washington, working together with the leadership of Christ Church Accokeek, has decided to sell the property of Christ Church Accokeek to a new corporate …
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Clip source: David Bentley Hart’s Lonely, Last Stand for Christian Universalism David Bentley Hart’s Lonely, Last Stand for Christian Universalism A Review of ‘That All Shall Be Saved’ October 2, 2019 | Michael McClymond For those not already acquainted with him, David Bentley Hart of the University of Notre Dame is widely regarded as one…David …
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An eventful Episcopal life ends: The Rt. Rev. J. Jon Bruno, former bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles, died suddenly of natural causes at his home in La Quinta, California, on April 23. Although anyone who was involved in the Episcopal property wars is well aware of his "take no prisoners" approach to this …
A very nice, a capella, solo rendition of the Venite, done in Anglican Chant (1940 Hymnal #609) is here: https://youtu.be/rN_miw_EBoQ I discuss the difference between the "American" and "English" version here. The 1928 Book of Common Prayer (where the Venite can be found on p. 9) is here.
After attending yet another funeral in the morning yesterday, I came home and hunched over my kitchen counter, absorbed in leftover scalloped potatoes, to be transported by the soaring music, the elegant hats, and the heartbreaking social distancing of a very different kind of burial, that of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. A handful of…Two …
There's never a dull moment these days, and to shut off the possibility of one occurring we now have the food fight around Kristin Kobes du Mez' Jesus and John Wayne. The most recent volley has been around the illustrious Anglican Anne Carlson Kennedy's review of same, with the usual suspects saying the usual things. …
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Many of you know that I used to work for the Church of God Department of Lay Ministries. One of my colleagues, who did most of the graphic design work, was a good friend in addition to being a coworker. Sometimes he'd greet me with the phrase, "Things going your way?" It's an easy way …
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Anne Kennedy makes an interesting observation in her piece "What is Really the Problem?": Second, human people are wicked. All people. ALL have sinned and fallen well and catastrophically short of the glory of God. All of the cries about white supremacy, white evangelicalism, patriarchy, and racism all illumine the very false and foolish idea …
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Edgar Noble's piece Yes to Gay Identity, No to Gay Sex? The Concept Shaking the Foundations of the ACNA is a thought-provoking piece on a subject that, to be honest, I didn't think would come up this quickly in the ACNA's life. As I noted in the last post, we have TEC, why do people …
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