Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
In an unusually barefaced statement of what many Christians actually think, Michael Olgren, Finance Committee Chairman of dying Grace Episcopal Church in Grand Rapids, MI, blurted out the following: At the parish's annual meeting on January 12, 2012, Dr. Michael Olgren, Chair of the Finance Committee, painted a dire financial picture of the parish stating …
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This, from David Virtue's Online Digest, sure makes it look that way: The saga of TAC Bishop David L. Moyer and his Newman fellowship continues. He announced to his small flock this week that he would not be accepting Msgr. Jeffrey Steenson's offer of laicization in order to enter the Roman Catholic Church. Instead, he …
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It is fashionable (especially in Anglican/Episcopal circles where it is so common these days) to refer to conversion to Roman Catholicism as "swimming the Tiber."Â Â Although Hillaire Belloc never actually had to convert (although a recovery was in order,) his The Path to Rome (which he actually walked, via the Alps) is probably a better …
I received an intriguing comment from Desmond on my 1662 Book of Common Prayer page. He was taking issue with my comments about women in ministry, but he did so in a odd way. Since he hit on subjects that I have talked about before and probably need repeating for newer visitors, I'll take his …
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It's becoming a pattern: The former Anglo-Catholic priest of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Rosemont, Fr. David L. Moyer has been denied his final step into the Roman Catholic Church following 10 years of ecclesiastical wandering that started with The Episcopal Church, migrated through the Diocese of Pittsburgh, Forward in Faith, the Church of …
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Dan Tomberlin's post on the "old time religion" deals with a subject that conveys one thing to one group of people and one thing to another. The whole business of "religion" has gotten a great deal of press thanks to Jefferson Bethke's video and this relates to that in an indirect way, but this is …
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We continue our discussion (the first part is here) with Abu Daoud, Anglican missionary to the Middle East. 5) How have your financial arrangements been for the work? What could be improved about this for you and others? Like most missionaries all of our income comes from churches and people who support our work. Some …
Readers of this blog know that Abu Daoud, Anglican missionary to the Middle East, is a long-time blog partner and friend with Positive Infinity. We caught up with him in an (appropriately) undisclosed location to discuss his work and Christianity in the Middle East, now and moving forward. 1) How did you become interested in …
Although I'm sure his Presiding Bishop finds this post suitable for framing, somehow Episcopal minister Frederick Schmidt's appeal to the authority of the church doesn't quite connect. Let's start with the issue he uses to illustrate his point: the proper colour for Advent: In a recent dust-up over liturgical colors, a colleague of mine was …
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The Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church depicts Our Lord and Saviour in a rather topsy-turvy way: In her book The Heartbeat of God, Jefferts Schori also taunts Jesus many times, calling him both a Hell's Angel gang leader (115) as well as a "party animal" (4). This kind of depiction of Jesus Christ and …
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