Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
A short time ago I linked to a Pew Research study showing that both the Episcopal Church and the rest of the Anglican world in this country are overwhelmingly white. A little later I showed that the Episcopal Church, for all the years of gaudy rhetoric about social justice, is still right there at the …
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I’ve been slowly reading through JK Rowling’s “Reasons for Speaking Out on Sex and Gender Issues.” If you have time, it is worth the effort—she reiterates many points I’ve run into elsewhere. She clearly and, I must say compassionately, lays out the dilemma for both women and for people suffering from gender dysphoria. Moreover, she… via …
This Week in AG History — June 3, 1944 By Darrin J. Rodgers Originally published on AG News, 04 June 2020 What can Pentecostals learn from John Wesley (1703-1791), the founder of Methodism? Wesley, an Anglican priest in England, helped to lay the foundation for large segments of the evangelical and Pentecostal movements. Despite living […] …
This is the second of a series on sacred hymns, the story behind them, their text, a recording, and a simple companion devotional. “A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.” - St. Francis of Assisi Every Hymn Has a Story St. Francis of Assisi was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher. Although… via …
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I find it strange that the Episcopal Church is up in a lather because Donald Trump marched with his entourage to St. John's Church near the White House and held up a Bible. Why is it strange? Reason I: it's a Bible. Episcopalians usually leave the daily Bible reading (or any Bible reading) to the …
I had this exchange with Matt Kennedy re the ethnicity issue in the ACNA: The Pew survey I reference can be found here. As a personal aside the denomination I'm currently in has ethnic diversity which more or less reflects the general population, although they're not quite sure how to take best advantage of that.
When I was a callow student at Duke University, the verdicts from the Greensboro Killings state trial came in November 1980. Five Klansmen were acquitted of murdering four Communist Party members and an additional man during a protest a year earlier. I considered the result unjust and therefore joined a campus protest rally.But the speeches… via …
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A neglected topic taken up by Bossuet in his Elevations on the Mysteries: When God wanted to give Moses the law on Mount Sinai, we read four important things. He descended to the sound of thunder and trumpets. The whole mountain seemed on fire, and one could see a flame break out in a cloud …
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