Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Traditionally, it's been hard to get Episcopalians fired up about much of anything. The whole point of the religion was to leave the enthusiasm for "them" and have a nice, proper religion where we worshipped "Gawd" on Sunday according to the Prayer Book. The culture wars, starting in the 1960's, changed all of that. Some …
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A favourite psalm of many is Psalm 91. Everyone likes this part: Praise of a Song, by David. He that dwells in the help of the Highest, shall sojourn under the shelter of the God of heaven. He shall say to the Lord, Thou art my helper and my refuge: my God; I will hope …
The Church of England is on its knees, and not in a good way. Before the pandemic, physical congregations were already sparse, and getting sparser: in 2019, estimates put the average Sunday service attendance at just 27 people. When Covid-19 reached these shores, the Anglican leadership responded by closing churches even for private prayer, and they’ve …
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A new survey shows that the majority of Americans no longer believe that Jesus is the path to salvation and instead believe that being a good person is sufficient. As part of the ongoing release of the Arizona Christian University-based Cultural Research Center's American Worldview Inventory, the latest findings — exploring perceptions of sin and …
E&M EMLP-005 (1966) This album comes from the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Little Rock, Arkansas. It was done by the Episcopal Young Churchmen under the direction of the Rev. Edgar E. Shippey. As the name implies, the album's inspiration came from their retreats in the Arkansas mountains, with musical arrangement assisted by James A. Pence, …
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Anglicans are often proud of the central place of scripture in prayer book worship, especially the lectionaries, those scheduled scripture readings for the Daily Offices of Morning and Evening Prayer and the Eucharist. Certainly, it is true that a widening diversity of calendars and lectionaries across the Anglican world are limiting claims about uniformity of… via …
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Celebrated a 1928 BCP said (and social-distanced) mass using an antique chaplain portable altar. via First outdoor church-in-a-box, surrounded by redwoods — Ad Orientem
This interesting exchange between Danté Stewart and the well-known Episcopal theologian Fleming Rutledge appeared in my Twitter feed: It's not a simple subject to unpack but it's not as hard to understand as Rutledge thinks it is. First, no matter how you try to make it happen the New Testament doesn't really advocate changing, let …
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Prolegomena: A Defense of the Scholastic Method. By Jordan Cooper. A Contemporary Protestant Scholastic Theology. The Weidner Institute: A Division of Just and Sinner, 2020. 358 pp. $21.60 (paperback) Whether you realize it or not, a heated debate has been taking place in Protestant circles these past few decades, over the usefulness or even compatibility… via …
Anne Carlson Kennedy's post didn't sit too well with him, and he responded as follows: From top to bottom, this “essay” is a mess. The giant, unbroken paragraphs are a slog to read, and the grammar errors and made up words (what is “Tragical” exactly?) are impossible to ignore. But the worst part, perhaps, is …
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