Ever since the hapless Rowan Williams began his exit from the stage of Lambeth Palace, and the former oil executive Justin Welby began measuring the curtains, there has been a great deal of optimism about the future course of the Church of England. Would there be a way of putting the Communion back together again? …
Some Thoughts on the "Three Streams" Business
I've thought about writing this for some time, but Stand Firm in Faith is doing what they do best: standing firm, in this case against the "Three Streams" concept of Anglicanism. Since I have, indirectly, been accused of holding this idea--and more recently gotten myself bogged down in an unedifying debate on the subject of …
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Rev. Ian Mitchell: The American Folk Song Mass
(FEL 7401-M) 1967 The 1960's were a time of ferment and change in the U.S., and, then as now, institutions had a hard time keeping up with them, let along getting ahead. One attempt to do so was The American Folk Song Mass, performed by the Canterbury Choir at Northwestern University under the direction of …
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The Africans, Emboldened by Options
For instance, the Chinese: China is the largest financier on the entire continent. Chinese corporations, financial institutions, and the government have invested billions of dollars in large new dams, for example. And why? Indeed, many African governments prefer China as an economic partner over Western countries for a number of reasons. First, China's own development …
Reply to Giles Fraser: The Effects of Bullying Cut Both Ways
I think the Canon has really stepped into it on this one. In his editorial re the defeat of women bishops at the recent Church of England synod, he tells the following tale: There was this lad at school who got bullied all the time. When he wasn't being bullied he was being ignored. He …
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Forty Years Ago, I Left. Today, the Diocese of South Carolina Leaves.
Through this year, I have posted from time to time about my journey forty years ago from the Episcopal Church to the Roman Catholic Church. Today is the fortieth anniversary of that transition. On a very nice South Florida November afternoon, I took my baby blue Pinto on the very short drive to St. Thomas …
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Veni, Venite, or Coming to Terms with Proper Latin Pronunciation at Christmas
One of the significant changes that has come to this blog in the year fast ending is the incorporation of proper WordPress statistics for the webmaster to contemplate. This gives me a better idea of where my readers are coming from and what interests them (better than Google Analytics, I might add). This blog (and …
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Diocese of South Carolina: The Last Drama for the Episcopal Church
The Anglican/Episcopal blogosphere received a jolt when TEC highest levels decided that the Diocese of South Carolina, and especially its bishop, had "abandoned" its own church. Here are some of my thoughts on the subject: The only thing really "shocking" about this was the complete lack of Episcopal decorum that the Presiding Bishop and her …
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Congo Pulls the Plug on Chuck Murphy and the "AMiA"
Getting out of bed and checking the email must be getting painful for Chuck Murphy these days: The archbishop of the Anglican Church of Congo, the Most Rev. Henri K. Isingoma has sent a formal letter to Canon Kenneth Kearon, General Secretary of the Anglican Communion, saying that the Congo will not grant any canonical …
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What the Britons Thought of Pelagius and Grace
To be called a "Pelagian" is about the worst insult that a Calvinist can hurl at you. So who was Pelagius? And how did his contemporaries react to it? Specifically, Pelagius was from Roman Britain; what did they think of it? Let's start with this, from Peter Salway's Roman Britain: One incident, in which the …
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