Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
In an excellent piece on the divide between the Remain-supporting clergy and the Leave-leaning laity of the Church of England, Giles Fraser makes this observation: The job of the church is not to be a faintly Left-wing lobbying group for a slightly more redistributive tax policy or a more European focused Brexit deal. The job …
Continue reading "A Pesky Detail the “Religious Left” Overlooks on the Mission of the Church"
In the run-up to Advent, the eminent Episcopal theologian Fleming Rutledge has posted an interesting piece entitled "Jesus’ Parable of the Money in Trust." It's an interesting and informative piece, informative not only in its Biblical exegesis but also (doubtless unintentionally) about the Episcopal Church itself, and the changes wrought from the days when multi-generational …
Continue reading "My Response to Fleming Rutledge (@flemingrut) on Stewardship"
Elizabeth Kolbert at the New Yorker has written an interesting article about philanthropy, "then and now." "Then" was during the Gilded Age at the end of the Nineteenth century and the beginning of the Twentieth. "Now" is the age of the Silicon Valley magnates. In both cases, the recipients of the wealth are a) burdened …
Continue reading "The Solution Jesus Offered for the Wealthy Wasn’t Philanthropy"
That was certainly the case with Peter Ball, whom John Major appointed to the see of Gloucester, much to then Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey's horror: LORD CAREY has expressed his horror that the former Prime Minister John Major was persuaded by a senior aide to choose Peter Ball over another candidate for the see …
Continue reading "You Can’t Always Get What You Want When You’re the State Church"
Recently Duane Alexander Miller, a long-time friend of this blog, wrote Two Stories of Everything: The Competing Metanarratives of Islam and Christianity. My review of this excellent book is here at Global MIssology.
They're certainly obsessed with it: I intrude mention of the Episcopal Church here because of my presence at the late convention — where what could have been taken for the third, perhaps second, cousin of old-fashioned anti-Semitism prowled like a ramping and roaring lion, snarling at Israel, clapping its paws for the Palestinians. Resolution after …
Continue reading "The Simple Solution for the Episcopalians’ BDS Problem"
I've covered this matter here and here; it's generated a fair amount of interest. Today the school released the following, which I will reproduce in its entirety (with one minor correction): In late March we shared with you information regarding Bruce Presley, a former board member (1994 – 2000) and part-time instructor at Saint Andrew’s. …
Continue reading "An Update on the St. Andrew’s School Sex Scandal"
My response to the Rev. Thomas Reeves' ideas on this subject has in turn received a response from him. That response is too extensive for a "comment box" type of response so I am devoting a post to the topic. I'll quote parts of his response, but for brevity's sake they'll be short, but you …
Not too long ago I reviewed a book entitled Was Jesus an Evangelical? by the Rev. Thomas Reeves, an ACNA priest in Roanoke, VA. He's come back with some interesting points (most of which are in his book, in more detail) and he's given me the opportunity to post then and comment. We'll start here: …
Continue reading "My Dialogue with an ACNA Priest re the Reformation and Anglicanism"
In looking through the links on Anglican Curmudgeon (which have taken the place of StandFirm for an index of Anglican/Episcopal blogs) I noticed something I never thought I'd see: Robin Jordan's Reshaping the 1928 Prayer Book Services for Mission, in four parts. That's because, for a long time, his position on the 1928 BCP ran …
Continue reading "A Pleasant Surprise from an old Anglican Commenter"
Positive Infinity 