Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
It had to happen sooner or later, but... The pastor of a large downtown Chattanooga church was declared the first case of COVID-19 in Hamilton County amid federal, state and local governments announcing a state of emergency due to the global pandemic. Following the announcement of the first local case, the Episcopal Church of East …
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via https://chineseorthodoxy.blogspot.com/2020/03/pastoral-directives-for-covid19.html: PASTORAL DIRECTIVES FOR COVID19 March 12th, 2020Dear Priests, Deacons, and Postulants, Over the last few months, the ACA&A has been dealing with the COVID19 outbreak in our Missionary Diocese of East and Southeast Asia. Because of our close contact with many priests and pastors at the epicenter of this outbreak, we know that …
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Our recent piece on Allan Haley brought up one of the more acrimonious subjects from the Anglican/Episcopal world we have dealt with: the All Saints/Waccamaw secession from the Episcopal Church, sometimes called the "Pawley's Island Case." When this site switched to WordPress, it left behind the original piece on the subject. I'm going to try …
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In this latest edition of Anglicans Unscripted: https://youtu.be/94d28CI-hlM Haley is probably the most erudite person to either cover or participate in the long legal war that the Episcopal Church waged with those who had had enough of its departure from the faith. Since the ACNA's formation, it's tempting to forget about all the litigation, but …
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Over the years, I've noticed that some people take a break for Lent on social media. Some of that is to avoid the dumpster fire that social media is and has been for a long time, and that's understandable. On the flip side, some want to take a break from putting out content and concentrating …
This interesting tidbit came out during the last episode of Anglicans Unscripted: https://youtu.be/kY1UtXTJXXU?t=237 For people raised at Bethesda-by-the-Sea in the 1960's and 1970's (as George and I were) this has some historical import: in 1968 the Vestry was highly disparaging of Bethesda's rummage sale, which ultimately led to its end. That in turn led to …
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Tim Fountain makes an interesting observation along these lines: And, as is a fault for Americans today on both the left and the right, they conflate the church and government. Whether it be the Trump is our new King Cyrus movement or the Christian Socialists, there is the belief that holding control of government will …
The recent Twitter storm (it doesn't take much) over Canon Theologian Emily Hunter McGowin's opining on why Jesus came and died for us (the "soteriological question," to put things more formally) and the reaction thereto got me to thinking about this. It's tempting to pass over it as another Anglican food fight, but the question …
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Back in December I published a post in response to one Rev. Chris Findley on Dodging the Important Questions on Priests and the Holy Communion. Unsurprisingly there was no response. Who knows, Rev. Findley might still be stuck in Murfreesboro's traffic, which is experiencing serious spillover from Nashville. In any case, in that post I touched …
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An intriguing suggestion from J.N.D. Kelly's Early Christian Doctrines. First, concerning Ambrosiaster's influential Commentary on Romans: Ambrosiaster's teaching is particularly noteÂworthy because it relies on an exegesis of Rom. 5, 12 which, though mistaken and based on a false reading, was to become the pivot of the doctrine of original sin. In the Greek St. …
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