Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
It's always interesting to follow the various artists that grace this blog. One of them, Ian Mitchell of American Folk Mass fame, was featured a little while ago when I discovered that the L.A. Times reported on Halloween 1985 that he had been given the boot at St. Athanasius Episcopal Church. That took place because …
Continue reading "Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire: Ian Mitchell Was Replaced by Jon Bruno"
One of the more interesting albums I posted (or more accurately reposted) is Ian Mitchell's American Folk Song Mass. At the time he was living in Chicago. Listening to the album, it doesn't take a genius to figure out which side of the political spectrum Mitchell was coming from. But I've always taken an open …
Continue reading "Rev. Ian Mitchell: What a Difference Thirty Years Make"
Former Nashotah House Dean Robert Munday's "If I had to do it over again..." is an excellent response to a sorry episode. I know it's hard for someone who has put his life into a work which others delight in unravelling to watch that take place. Some comments on what he had to say: To …
Continue reading "Robert Munday's Doing It Over Again, and a Note on Systematic Theology"
He's really stepped in it this time: An invitation by Dean Edward Salmon to Katharine Jefferts Schori to be the guest preacher at Nashotah House's historic seminary chapel has resulted in at least two resignations from that seminary's board. A memo from Bishop Jack Iker of the Diocese of Ft. Worth (confirmed by his staff) …
Continue reading "Bishop Salmon Plays Colonel Nicholson. Again."
I guess a blog which at least claims to be in the Anglican/Episcopal blogosphere should have something to say in the wake of all the "fun" going on around Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby. That includes his sycophantic press release re Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts-Schori's upcoming honourary doctorate at Oxford and his address to …
Continue reading "What Do You Expect? This is the Global North!"
There are two threads in the news these days that illustrate where our "Western civilisation" (which at this stage is neither) is going. As is usually the case, "God, gays and guns" are at the centre of the problem, but not in the venues they're normally associated with. Let's start with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin …
Continue reading "Our Insane "Civilisation": John Kerry and Justin Welby"
Anyone who blogs has persistent commenters. Last year my "top" commenter was one David Lloyd-Jones, a Canadian who took exception to a great deal of what I wrote (although not everything he read). Lloyd-Jones found me via my series of my business dealings in China in the early 1980's. He himself has had an interesting …
Timothy Fountain, with some help from Rod Dreher, lays it out: There are going to be Christians and non-Christians in America. Nominal Christianity has no future now that various cultural props are gone. Christians will have to be disciples of Jesus, not members of clubs based on old ethnic, neighborhood and family functions. Which means …
Some people will write anything to fill up server space: With FOX News seeking to expose those who refuse to say "Merry Christmas" as secular collaborators to the War on Christmas, I confess that I am confused. FOX holds itself up as the network that stands by traditional values defending America and faith from heresies …
Now that my serialised posting of My Lord and My God is done, we can tackle what is, for Anglicans at least, the obvious question: what relationship does this have with the Sydney Anglicans' contention that subordination does, in fact exist in the Trinity? This has been batted around since the issue first hit the …
Continue reading "Why Sydney Anglican Subordinationism is Lame"
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